@Doktor-Mandrake

It's a shame they're ditching x11 support, for someone like myself the favourite thing about linux is bringing new life into old hw. Hw prices are going up and its important people can still make sure of older hw!

I'm easy going about the whole X11/Wayland thing but I'm with you on the old hardware. I haven't purchased a brand new computer in over 15 years. Just like my automobiles, I prefer to get my computers from the used market (definitely not as old as I might for a vehicle though). Someone else pays the premium and I get it after they're done with it!

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The lack of limits on the number of fish troubles me, as stocking levels are definitely an issue with real aquariums. Many a noob has lost precious, expensive fish as a result. Might give potential aquarium enthusiasts the wrong idea.

Hopefully, they make it clear that this is a benefit that only a virtual aquarium can provide.

Edit: corrected "last" to "lost". Stupid autocorrect.

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Any connection to Gentoo Linux?

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All I can say is that I trust the Canonical Desktop Team to do a more competent job of it than I do the Manjaro Team. My experience with Manjaro on hybrid GPUs was not all that great. Limiting driver options and using archaic tools such as Bumblebee was not the best of decisions.

Otherwise, this change is only logical given that KDE has already forced the issue ..

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The Mint Team is working on the Cinnamon Desktop to prepare it for Wayland. The laptop I game with is on Linux Mint XFCE Edition. I am not fussed about Wayland support. I also have confidence that when the XFCE team is ready to move the XFCE desktop to Wayland, it will be rock-solid stable.

I haven't experienced any issues gaming on X11. I don't imagine I'll experience any issues with Wayland either, once I get around to trying it. For me, X11 is stable and that's all that matters to me.

I guess I just don't utilize the features that cause so many others distress. I'm not polarized for or against either X11 or Wayland. For now X11 serves my purposes and some time in the future, Wayland will replace it. I'm good either way.

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Great article. You had my interest with the pictures (especially that one from your desktop session with the sandworm rising) but you lost me with the word MMO. Just not my thing.

I do think they are heading in a better direction, though -- one-time payment, no subscription fees and no microtransactions. For those of you that like MMOs, enjoy!

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I think it highly likely that M$ will charge a license fee for every Windows handheld install. What are Valve's intentions with SteamOS?

I agree that M$ has had a lot of failures but I worry that they are just trying to pull another scam to bring down the competition, like they did to the netbooks. Will they care if they lose money in the short term?

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@Pyrate

About the screenshot: The real reason why we're so deep into this bad state for the industry, is because you have people excusing that shit. Unreal.

I really didn't find his response all that objectionable. I've seen far more arrogant stuff coming from the likes of Todd Howard or Tim Sweeney. And then there's good old Bill and his successors ...

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A lot of good observations here. I agree with a lot of them. I remember when Ultima IV for PC released back in the day. The sticker shock was incredible - they wanted $100 Cdn at launch. Higher prices were really not unusual for triple-A games with long development cycles. Back in the early nineties, low-end IBM PCs were typically $2,500 Cdn or more. Clones were often half that price for a basic PC.

I think it is a matter of perception, really. When we paid $100 for that game back in the day, we got a physical box & media. We got a nice printed manual and other support materials (medallions, coins, other booklets, etc.). RPGs such as Ultima often included a cloth map.

Compare that to a digital release. Nothing physical to hold in our hands. Nothing to give a sense of value to the purchase. From that perception of value, the consumer doesn't see that they are getting as much for the $80 US price tag on a purely digital purchase.

So, yes, there are still distribution costs behind the scenes, but it is not as obvious to the average consumer as a physical product in their hands.

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@Stella

I dual-boot on all my systems (I paid for the license, so I'm not going to delete it). I spend very little time in Windows, except for games or applications that won't run in Linux (which is getting to be fewer & fewer all the time). I noticed a couple years back that the same game would run better in Linux. I also like that I can give each game their own prefix, so there is no chance of one installation corrupting the other.
Windows has always sucked for performance and bloat.

I can't comment on battery life, however, as I rarely use my laptops that way.

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