Quoting: scaineNate Graham covered that in his post. The moment that you've just installed a desktop isn't the right time to ask for donations - you have no idea if you're sticking with the distro or desktop.

And I just covered that that welcome screen pops up on every new Plasma version... But let's make it more clear; so if a user keeps using Plasma, upgrades to 6.x, they'll get that window again with a mention to donate.

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I tried it for a bit before remembering that I despise MOBAs, last good one was Vainglory (RIP). Game is probably good for those who like the Dota's and the League's.

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Quoting: eldakingHmm, as much as asking for donations is perfectly fine and good (I'd consider a distro removing such a benign request to be very rude, almost hostile)... I don't think a system notification is the right place for it. I'd rather have it all the time in the login screen than having it pop up as a notification, even once per year. Having a static donate button somewhere in the settings would be better than a daemon to show a scheduled ad.

Maybe it is because of trauma about so much stuff using "notifications" to advertise, but I think that is a functional part of the system that should not be used for developer communication with users (and neither should command line outputs for your package manager, wtf Canonical). The same reasons that make it more effective than using proper communication channels are the reasons why it is bad: it is intruding on something users pay attention to because it is meant for other things. It is using privileged access to the system to reach users in a channel they don't expect. If someone deliberately chose to not engage on social media, e-mail and your website, should you really force an engagement? (An always-on notice/button feels ok because it isn't trying to grab your attention, it is just there in case you want)

You're right on the money, the notificiation tab should be reserved to stuff I actually care about i.e: emails, app notifications etc, and anything other than that no matter the intention is not acceptable for me. I mean, the image in the article with the "please donate" alert is giving me major Windows "please upgrade to 11" / "use OneDrive" / "try Recall AI" whiplash, I do not like this idea one bit.

I'll reiterate my point in my first comment; KDE already mentions donations in the welcome screen for every new major version, at least it does on Fedora. I got one when I upgraded to Plasma 6, and another one in 6.1, I believe this is a much better system that's already set in place, and since major Plasma versions happen more than once a year, it's a better system if you want to give out reminders more frequently. Planting it in the user notifications tab is a poor choice in my opinion.

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Doesn't the welcome screen for every new Plasma version mention donations and such? I don't think the "if you're not a follower of those [...]" bit is being genuine here.

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Quoting: RomlokRemember folks: Don't buy games unless you're going to play them within the refund window.

Words to live by.

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What have you been enjoying the most on Steam Deck recently?

Been enjoying Chrono Trigger (SNES), not an RPG guy at all but I really like this game so far.

Also playing ZZZ over on the desktop side these days, I just got an invite for Deadlock so I might try it though I don't really care for multiplayer games at the moment.

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Quoting: CatKillerThat was such a terrible solution. The proper response to "Microsoft's AV gets special access to the kernel that other AVs don't" isn't "everyone gets to futz with the kernel," it's "Microsoft's AV doesn't get to futz with the kernel, either."

And you know Microsoft won't just give that up, so we're back to square one here. So frustrating.

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Quoting: enigmaxg2I guess that won't happen anytime soon (unless something EXTREMELY BAD happens

Millions of PC's going offline wasn't bad enough? I think the logic many of us are having here is that if Microsoft is successful at kicking those AV vendors out of the kernel, it should have a dominos effect and hit the kernel level anti cheat mob too. If a cybersecurity firm specifically specialising in preventing what happened on July 19 fucked up, there's no reason to believe the anticheat makers won't make the same mistake in the future.

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Quoting: MohandevirIf Microsoft goes forward with this idea, all kernel level anticheats might become a thing of the past.

Unfortunately, it looks like this will go down the same path as when it happened years ago, where third party kernel rootkit authors will rightfully point out that Microsoft has an advantage if it kicks all other AV software off the kernel but its own.

Unless there's been developments on this that I missed?

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what the fuck. it's a 2016 game for god's sake why go through all that trouble. God damn it this just ruined my day as I actually play this game.

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