Quoting: suchValve is the funding/driving force behind mainstream Linux gaming, GOG can - at best - reach remora status to Valve's shark... ness here. Not that I'd mind solid, actual competition.

Why can't GOG work with Valve on this? Why do they need to compete? Perhaps I'm suggesting too radical a change in mentality for contemporary business thinking...

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That new WoW64 looks promising.

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Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.

Dying? Oh....
So why is it being installed by users on literally dozens of distros...? 🤔

You're right. I suspect this is a case of wishful thinking...

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I wonder, is this the first example of a commercial flatpak?

(I don't do flatpak, so I don't know...)

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovSadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮

See article above. You get it from Hypixel's website.

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Of the new series since Voyager, I have only ever watched Lower Decks and Picard. None of the others interest me. I lost interest in DS9 after Voyager began and never watched more than one or two episodes of Enterprise.

Lower Decks was a HOOT and, Picard, well ... it's Patrick Stewart!

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Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

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I'm a little surprised. He could have just taken it down temporarily with the explanation he provided and then ran a kickstarter to raise the funds to pay a human artist to replace the genAI artwork. Perhaps it is not worth the extra effort?

Kudos to that new girlfriend though!

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Quoting: dziadulewiczWhat are you ppl up there talking about? Nothing needs to die, snap and flatpak are also very different. Both have their place and more. This is important. Everything is important to get to work correctly and well on Linux and we should support Canonical on this effort!

I'm with @dziadulewicz on this. The objections to Snap seem idealogical and polarized rather than practical. There doesn't have to be one solution to the packaging "problem". In fact, it is more resilient if there isn't. Use the solution that works best for you and leave it to others to make their own choice.

Personally, I find the design of flatpaks to be complicated and wasteful of system resources. Storage is at a premium on my systems. The sandboxing, well laudable, is quite annoying when you want to integrate the app into your system. It is like you are running two operating systems instead of one.

AppImages, on the other hand, are all contained in one file. You mark it as executable and run it. If you want to sandbox it, you can. There are several excellent tools to manage integration and updating too. Personally, I prefer to control my updating and download and replace the files by hand. You can place the AppImage file wherever you want. It doesn't have to be in the file system partition at all. AppImages are intuitive and very simple to use.

I have no experience with Snaps, as I don't use a distribution they ship with. I cannot comment, as they do not effect me (:winks: at @scaine).

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Quoting: GuestI don't like using AppImage either, it's too cumbersome to use for launching applications and there's no built-in application update system.

FALSE. Been a while since you've looked at AppImage, I'm guessing? Most modern AppImage files are shipping with built-in update support (0 A.D. For example). There are two ways that I'm aware of to get AppImage updating these days. One is the official AppImageUpdate [External Link] (which is distributed via an AppImage and can also update itself). This is still considered to be in beta. The other is to use AM / AppMan (AppImage Package Manager) [External Link].

AM is a command line tool that aims to be the "APT" of AppImages. This tool also offers the choice to use "AppMan", a portable version of "AM", limited to installing and managing apps only locally and without root privileges. It is quite extensive & powerful: installs, integrates, updates and uninstalls, utilizing a main database registry. The user can assign their own folders and integrate via the launch parameter.

It is even possible to sandbox your AppImages, if you crave that flatpak experience (I don't). Read this [External Link] to update your knowledge of the state of AppImage updating and AppImages in general.

I don't get that old saw that AppImages are too cumbersome to use for launching applications. Simply right click on the file, select properties, go to the permissions tab and check the "run as executable" box. Not hard at all. If you want it integrated into the DE's menu, do it manually or install AM / AppMan, AppImagelauncher, Gear-Lever (I recommend the unofficial AppImage version [External Link]) or even the very basic appimaged.

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