Just remember to have a cunning plan to avoid going over the top.

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Quoting: pbI wonder what's keeping Valve from just officially releasing SteamOS for general use.

The same what keeps Microsoft from releasing the Windows source code and Google from releasing google play services, they like the control it gives them.
Also it places them in a position to negotiate with patent holders and DRM companies.

Oh, c'mon. It's open source, anyone who wants to do the work can make a SteamOS spin for more general use. So they have no control. But that is probably quite a bit of work . . . a distro made for one piece of hardware is way easier than a distro made to work with all the hardware in PC-land, yes? And they don't have a strong motivation to do all the work. What's in it for them?

We know that last time they made a general purpose SteamOS, they didn't maintain it well. It may be better for everyone if they just stick to maintaining the simple version whose smooth working is quite important to them.

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Quoting: ElamanOpiskelija

too many "big bets across the company"

of course, it's great to take big bets, as long as others (11%) pay the bill.

Are you saying those people shouldn't have been hired in the first place? That's weird. Also, can't go back in time.

I think you missed a bit of sarcasm there.

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Quoting: BaronVonSuckoDisable AVX-512? What on earth. How about no? This is "Yo dude, Just reinstall!" tier advice.

Your bar for reinstalling must be amazingly low. Liam's help here is for people who don't throw out the tub with the bath water.

That's not what he's saying. He's claiming the suggestion is such bad advice that it is just as bad as advising a reinstall. I have no idea whether he's right, but that's what he's saying.

. . . and for that matter, if you judge fixes to problems on the basis of how much work is involved and how effective the results, there is actually a significant slice of problems where reinstalling is the best solution, IF you count all the effort it will require to scour fora for the solution and sort the good advice from the bad after trying and attempting to revert some of the bad. If you use an easy install distro, just saying "Screw it, this problem didn't used to be here, reinstall and it will be gone" can be much easier than the process of hunting down the exact nature of a problem and its fix.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Flathub has served just about 1.6 billion downloads, has over 2,400 apps

Very impressive, congratulations to @all. The quality of FOSS on the store is great, and while predicting the future is hard -- I am modestly optimistic about their efforts to make a commercial area of the store someday.

I've long thought that one of the most potentially important things about Flatpaks is about closed, mostly non-game software. That stuff can't be packaged by your distro, so the ability for vendors to build their stuff in a fairly easy, pretty solid, distro-agnostic way could go a long way towards reducing complaints about Linux fragmentation.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGotta say, when I first saw a piece of an episode of Digimon on TV my first thought was "Whoa, now there's a transparent ripoff of Pokemon!"
Not that I cared, or thought about whether it was actionable or anything, but that was what instantly came to mind.

I remember thinking the same thing when the Digimon virtual pet keychains first came along (they pre-dated the show by a couple of years, and had little to do with it except for some of the monsters and their evolutionary paths). But with that original context, it was also a lot clearer that they were taking the monster-collecting idea into a raising-focussed direction instead.

They still make them, too. I've got one of the modern ones on my desk at the moment, and it can even connect to the classic one I have, as well. :grin:

And I mean, something being a transparent ripoff doesn't necessarily make it bad. I quite enjoyed The Sword of Shannara even though it was clear to me from the start of reading it that it was a transparent and inferior ripoff of Lord of the Rings.

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Quoting: redneckdrowMany of these are huge franchises in their own right. Are we gonna call them ripoffs now too?:huh:

Gotta say, when I first saw a piece of an episode of Digimon on TV my first thought was "Whoa, now there's a transparent ripoff of Pokemon!"
Not that I cared, or thought about whether it was actionable or anything, but that was what instantly came to mind.

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Quoting: grahfgamesHonestly, considering how terrible the Pokémon games have been the past few years, no wonder Pal world is so popular. 95% of artistic works are derivative of something that has come before it, unfortunately. Look at music composition for example, the western musical system can only have so many combinations of notes before we just start repeating single note phrases, let alone chord progressions. How many songs are based off the same I-V-VI-IV chord progression - I would say every single pop song ever ;)

And don't even get me started on art. Consider all those portraits of human beings! Just the exact same kind of creature, over and over! Not only that, sometimes you get different artists doing portraits of the same human being other artists have already drawn! It's a scandal I tell you. :grin:

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One of these days I'd like to see one of these where some of the basics go away. Like, it assumes the people know how to build a farm so there are automatically enough subsistence farms (or, huts and rudimentary fishing boats) for the population. And so what they need you for is things like building a mill or a smithy, developing new crops, arranging for defence, storing extra grain in case of famine and such.

Come to think of it, I've never seen one of these where there's much thought put into qualitative improvements in agriculture--part of the point of the smithy never seems to be making better ploughs, you never breed little ponies into draft horses (that can pull those ploughs), you don't start with little almost-wild apples that yield little except a minor morale boost and breed them until you've got trees that yield boughs full of big more modern apples, and so on. Nobody ever leaves a field fallow . . .
I think there are one or two individual survival games that go into this kind of stuff a bit. But not the community-builder things.

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Quoting: CruelAngelQuick and extremly dirty math:

There are 8 billion ppl out there, lets say 4 billion of them have access to internet on a PC, and Linux has a 2% user base, that means 80 million ppl useing Linux. If that is true, then comparatively the 1 million users of Flathub is suprisingly low.

Even more surprisingly low given that recent figures I've seen here at GoL suggest Linux usage at significantly higher than 2% (general use, not gaming). On the other hand, it may well be that some distros grab some Flatpaks from Flathub and put them in their own repositories, so that when you download the Flatpak from your distro's own get-software-thingie you aren't a "user of Flathub" but you are indirectly depending on Flathub. So, Flathub's influence could be quite a bit broader than the 1 million figure suggests.

On the other, other hand, Ubuntu uses Snaps (although some of its derivatives don't), and it's pretty popular.

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