It's worth noting at this point that Take-Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, was paid $42.1 million last year, which is more than two-and-a-half times the previous year. So once again, the people at the top are pulling in big numbers while cutting the people doing the work.

This needs to be pointed out more often. No one deserves this high a salary, especially at the expense of those that earn much less. Plain greed.

:angry:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: wvstolzingOn the cli, it comes with a package manager of sorts; otherwise it integrates with gui managers like KDE Discover, or GNOME Software via packagekit transparently. I use `flatpak update` on the cli, whenever I check for stuff on the regular package manager.

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualYou just click the Update All button in GNOME Software or KDE Discover to update your system + Flatpak packages. They're all managed via PackageKit.

Quoting: belisamaYes, Mint has integrated Flatpak updates into its update manager.

Thanks everyone, that was very informative. And actually makes me much more likely to grab something from Flathub in future.

Ditto.

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Quoting: legluondunetWhat distribution you will advice for gaming?
From my experience, a good Linux distribution for gaming will be a distribution that will provide all packages needed for gaming:
- Proprietary and open source graphic drivers
- recent kernel
- wifi/bluetooth drivers
- wine/wine-staging
- 32 and 64 bits libraries
- Steam
- all emulators
- flatpak
- Lutris, Heroic...
- Gamescope, Mangohud
which manages dependencies efficiently: for example, if I install Lutris, also install wine, the 32 and 64 bit libraries, install the sdl libraries etc... So that the user subsequently does not have any messages error linked to a missing library when launching his games. And packages should be updated regularly.

At the moment I have successfully tested the following distributions for the game:
- Manjaro (ARCH)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed

This two distributions are rolling release so you always use recent and stable packages.

As an Ubuntu user for many years, I would not recommend this Linux distribution for gaming, I have experienced a lot of problems with unsatisfied dependencies, app packages not available, issues unresolved and its management of PPAs is complicated and degrades its stability.
Then I often encountered difficulties when updating from one version to another.

What about Fedora? I would be interested in your feedback.

I am currently setting up Mint 21.3 XFCE for gaming. I have been using Mint as my daily driver since version 13 over ten years ago.

For Linux gaming, I have tried Linux Mint (fixed release cycle), Manjaro (rolling release), and Pop!_OS (semi-rolling). With fixed releases, I prefer to do clean installs but having to reinstall all my games with each fixed release update was becoming an annoyance. Rolling releases address that concern but being bleeding edge isn't everything it is cracked up to be! The sacrifice is stability.

Honestly, Manjaro ran like crap on my legacy laptop with very poor support for my laptop's legacy Nvidia GPU. Pop!_OS does a far superior job overall but the Gnome UI takes a lot of getting used to and then there's the Pop!_Shop ... Mint's Software Manager is just so much better! I would still recommend Pop!_OS as excellent gaming distribution, however.

With the new Upgrade feature that Mint has introduced, I feel that my primary issue with fixed releases is being addressed. So I thought I'd give Mint another try, this time with the XFCE edition. Yes, the packages are not as up-to-date as in a rolling release. For the ones that matter to me, this can be gotten around via PPAs, Flatpaks, AppImages or binaries. If it requires building/compiling, I just don't bother with it. So far, the gaming experience hasn't been much different than in Pop!_OS, to be honest. I haven't yet encountered the stability issues in Ubuntu that you mentioned.

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Quoting: LanzFascism is actually just the dialectical inversion of Marxism. In both fascism and Marxism, the state is God - the only difference is what you're collectivizing. They're almost the same ideology. China is the dialectical synthesis of Marxism and fascism to make neoliberal communism.

One of my favorite bloggers put it more clearly. Fascism and Communism (not Marxism, which as PLG notes is more philosophical than political) are opposites on the political spectrum of Socialism. What's the primary difference? In simplified terms, the ownership of the resources. In Communism, the resources are owned by the state. In Fascism, the resources are owned by private (corporate) interests. Otherwise, both systems tend to be dictatorial in nature and infringe on personal sovereignty.

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We've all been there right? You paid for a game, it required an active internet connection and a couple of years later the publisher decided they're done with it and shut it down leaving you with a broken game.

Not to sound like a GOG fanboy, but this is often where GOG steps in. They convince the developer/publisher to drop the always-online DRM on a single-player game and put it back on the market (the "compromise" being that any multiplayer components are usually disabled :sad:).

Quoting: CatKillerFull automatic refunds for every copy when a company kills the game is much simpler, and removes most of the financial incentive for that undesirable behaviour.

Love the simplicity of this idea. I suspect the end result would be that, rather than having to refund all purchasers of the game, the developer/publisher will simply remove any DRM that will kill single-player gameplay. The game is still playable, so no refunds required ...

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One of my favorite FOSS games. They provide an AppImage too.

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Looks like I have motivation to upgrade to Linux Mint 22 earlier than I normally do.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: Pyretic

Quoting: devlandAmazon probably paid gog to do this since they are struggling financially.

GOG is struggling financially??? I'm out of the loop here, since when were they struggling?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/gog-to-go-through-some-reorganization-after-suffering-losses/

Old news.

That's one of the problems with the Internet is that it's too easy to mistake old news for current news. GOG posted their financials for 2022 back in May 2023. They made a $1.2M USD net profit in 2022.

GOG Facts & Numbers of 2022 [External Link]

I think that the media and the investor community overreacted somewhat, viewing things in the short-term as they do. GOG did an excellent job of bouncing back from what amounts to a blip in their annual financial results.

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Nothing wrong with third party solutions, especially if they make things easier for you.

I use AppImageLauncher [External Link]. It integrates the AppImage file into the main menu, prompts to move the file to a default folder (Applications, but it can be changed) and I think it can even monitor for updates as well.

Quoting: dziadulewiczyou have to setup the system to handle AppImages, after that downloading each AppImage package one has to chmod it too for running.

Every distro I've used has needed no configuring beyond setting the file as executable. Some do this by default.

No need to CLI, most GUI file managers allow you to right click and set the file to executable via Properties these days.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAs the saying goes, capitalism is a terrible economic system; it just happens to be better than every other economic system that's been tried.

That's just the propaganda of capitalism. There are other options that the elite just don't want us to look at. Try syndicalism (businesses are co-ops owned by the workers), distributism (Gandhian economics) or social credit (banks owned by the state). The info is all online.

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