I kinda like the atmosphere.

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Quoting: x_wing1,2% seals taxes (almost sure this one is federal).

Geeze. What if you don't even own a seal?

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I can vaguely imagine what Volkswagen might use Blender for, but I do wonder.

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Six thousand is still very small compared to the total number of games on Steam. But most of those were never big, or are old and didn't have much staying power. Most of those work anyway even if they haven't been vetted, but it probably doesn't matter to most people if a few of their back catalog don't work on the Deck.
If the six thousand is heavily weighted towards newer more popular games and classics, that's probably an awful lot of what people want to play. At this point as long as Valve keep up with new releases and keeps big games with a "long tail" working it's probably fine.

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Well that's rude of whoever it was. Gotta say, though, I think "We stuck a light on the bottom" is one of those patent applications that makes me think the whole concept of patents needs a massive overhaul or elimination.

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Graveyard Keeper doesn't seem to be part of the sale as such, but it happens to be 50% off right now.

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Sounds like it will be pretty amazing around 5 or 6 DLCs in.

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Can't be. PC gaming is dead, didn't you know? :wink:

I've gone back to Stellaris, trying out a Devouring Swarm. Kind of silly--just when they've bumped up diplomacy I'm playing a scourge that responds to diplomacy with "We Hunger". And for breaks between other stuff, some Urtuk: The Desolation.

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Quoting: AppelsinI think most of the shit Canonical got was due to them literally trying to force you to use the snap, if you wanted to or not. Not because it shipped as a snap, which of course is up to them, but you couldn’t even uninstall it and sudo apt install “normal” Firefox, since *buntu was set up to install the Snap version even if you did the command to install apt/deb version. That, I think, was a mistake on their part, to think would go over well with people.

Which alternative method to you propose to get those users upgrading from a prior release (where the package existed) onto the snap (which is supported) rather than the package (which no longer exists)? Note that your chosen method will need to both be seamless for users and reduce the maintenance burden for the Ubuntu devs.

I dunno. How do you normally install snaps on the command line? If there's no method, that's a problem for snap, but I'm sure there is one. So if you wanted the snap, you'd use that, no?

I mean, the question you're asking is two questions really--a command line question and a normal users-upgrading question. Presumably Ubuntu has a GUI software installer. So fine, if their new package is a snap, the GUI can install that and uninstall the .deb. On the other hand, if someone is using the command line, on a distribution that favour snaps but also uses debs, then I think it's fair to expect them to use apt to uninstall the old thing and snap to install the new thing if they want the snap.
And as to the package not existing any more . . . Ubuntu is Debian based. The package still exists, they're just choosing not to make it available to you.

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Quoting: PlintslîchoI'm really looking forward for this game. An Adventure game with a Western setting? Heck, yeah!

Well, there's already West of Loathing.

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