Well, looking at the trailer, there seems to be quite a bit of variation in the sort of hurty stuff your character is putting out there. It's pretty.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI like the new way to interact with pre-FTL civs now; it felt a bit clunky before, but Observation Posts now have buttons to go directly to the diplomacy view and espionage, which is how you carry out things like secretly providing technology or indoctrinating aliens towards your ethics. Wait, "diplomacy view?" Yes, pre-FTLs now have a diplomacy screen like other empires even before you've officially met, consolidating lots of information like their technology level (and progress to the next one), ethics, "awareness" of extraterrestrial life, etc. into one easily-accessible place. And, it's now possible to make contact before they achieve space flight (without landing troops on their world :wink:), allowing you to talk to them while they're in the Renaissance Era or whatever, which I just think is kinda fun.

That does sound rather nice. But isn't most of that stuff in the free 3.7 update?

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Well, 3.7 looks like a rather nice update.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: slaapliedjeEvery corporation has an agenda... to make money. Canonical's best way to make money is to try to get as much vendor lock-in that they can, without pissing off the community enough that someone switches to a different distro. Snap and them being the only ones who can host a snap store is their method of lock-in.

That's just nonsense. Canonical make zero money from desktop Ubuntu users. They make money, like Red Hat/IBM do, by offering paid support and services. Snaps make that hugely easier for their actual customers, and for themselves as maintainers. They might also have made money from the Ubuntu Phone, which snaps were largely created for, but they ran out of money before that could become a thing.

Snaps only come from one place to solve the discovery issue that PPAs have, and which Fedora users experience from flatpaks where they have access to some flatpaks but not all of them. All the snaps are available in one place - accessible by default for Ubuntu users and trivial to add for users of other distros (except Mint, who put up additional barriers in the way of user choice).

slaapliedje might be overstating, but so are you. Doing it up a bit too brown there, especially when we started this Snap conversation with the exact bit that got Mint annoyed.

they don't make money directly from users, but if Ubuntu wouldn't be so succesful, because (cough cough) users made it popular. I'd bet it wouldn't have high usage in corporate environments or ISV's wouldnt even consider it . I wouldn't call snaps a lock-in tho. But slaapliedje is right they have priorities.. 1st Devs, 2nd IVS's 3rd Corpos (I'm not sure if this is the right order) and the least of their concerns is users. imho

I have actually noticed a pattern where a new distro comes along done by a company, emphasizes the desktop, becomes very popular on the desktop, leverages that popularity to do server stuff etc. where there's some money, pays less attention to the desktop, and gradually loses popularity, which does them little harm because their server business remains intact . . . until the next desktop-oriented distro comes along, becomes very popular, and eats some of their lunch. Well, I say a pattern but it's only happened a couple of times.
Right now the "next" desktop distro (Pop!OS) is based around hardware sales instead, more like Apple, so that may play out differently. Unfortunately as far as I can make out I don't like it much--too innovative for my taste.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: slaapliedjeEvery corporation has an agenda... to make money. Canonical's best way to make money is to try to get as much vendor lock-in that they can, without pissing off the community enough that someone switches to a different distro. Snap and them being the only ones who can host a snap store is their method of lock-in.

That's just nonsense. Canonical make zero money from desktop Ubuntu users. They make money, like Red Hat/IBM do, by offering paid support and services. Snaps make that hugely easier for their actual customers, and for themselves as maintainers. They might also have made money from the Ubuntu Phone, which snaps were largely created for, but they ran out of money before that could become a thing.

Snaps only come from one place to solve the discovery issue that PPAs have, and which Fedora users experience from flatpaks where they have access to some flatpaks but not all of them. All the snaps are available in one place - accessible by default for Ubuntu users and trivial to add for users of other distros (except Mint, who put up additional barriers in the way of user choice).

slaapliedje might be overstating, but so are you. Doing it up a bit too brown there, especially when we started this Snap conversation with the exact bit that got Mint annoyed.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYeah . . . but I was really expecting, given the apparent success of the Steam Deck, that it would kind of swamp all that variability.

The Steam user base is huge, with 132 million monthly active users. There are 20 million people on Steam right now. A couple of million units is just a drop in the ocean. If the Steam Deck sold as many as the best selling console ever (PS2, 155 million) to brand new, never on Steam before, customers, the Steam user base would be less than twice as big.

Well, sure, but the existing Linux bit of that 132 million is a titch over 1%, so like 1.5 million, max. A couple of million units would more than double that. So I would have expected if sales were high, the variations in the sampling would not normally be enough to make Linux numbers actually fall.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Eike-0.11% last month. Is a million Steam Decks or two not enough to compensate for Steam's growth?!?

Linux Steam is growing marginally faster than Steam as a whole (check Liam's trend line), but the data is just a sample rather than a continuous measurement of the whole so the data is noisy. In particular, samples with a higher proportion of respondents in China (where Linux usage is essentially non-existent) than respondents in Europe or the USA (where Linux usage is in the low single digits) will show the Linux share dropping, even if Linux is growing overall.

Yeah . . . but I was really expecting, given the apparent success of the Steam Deck, that it would kind of swamp all that variability.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBeen about a year now . . . I wonder if we'll ever get to see any sales figures. How's the Linux percentage looking on Steam these days?

-0.11% last month. Is a million Steam Decks or two not enough to compensate for Steam's growth?!?

The Survey is very weird.

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I like your green blob's little smiley face.

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Been about a year now . . . I wonder if we'll ever get to see any sales figures. How's the Linux percentage looking on Steam these days?

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