Hurrah! I use Mate and I really don't want it to get left behind by or hold up the shift to Wayland.

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Quoting: NociferBut I don't see myself moving on anytime soon, because one thing is indisputable: passing through all these hurdles (which is really required only once, i.e. on first install) will end up with you having built one of the best and most solid Linux systems you can get, and with the added bonus that during the process you will have acquired a more than vague idea of how this system actually works, which means you'll have made your first step(s) towards transitioning from computer n00b to an actual computer user :)

That first point is actually quite disputable. You assume that the person doing all this stuff is fundamentally competent at technical stuff--no doubt because you yourself are. If they suck, they could go through all that and end up making themselves a wonky piece of crap Linux system. I mean, there's been plenty of lousy distros, and those are put together by people with pretensions to technical knowledge; I don't see why many users couldn't similarly do a poor job configuring their own system.

The learning part is fundamentally good . . . but for many, not an important enough good to repay the time spent. I'd be in that camp. The world is big and complicated and there are many, many things to know about. I can't possibly know about them all. There is not enough time. And it so happens that on my list of priorities of things to know about, any more than a pretty dashed basic understanding of the nuts-and-bolts of my computers' operating systems is quite far down, well past quite a few other things that I will also never take the time to learn.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeMost don't understand that the most popular distributions are, at their core, Debian systems though.

It seem I am one of the few who never got the hang of anything Debian or Ubuntu. Dunno exactly why tho ^^"

'Cause you never tried Mint!

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Quoting: TermyAnother reason to put your money where your mouth is and support Linux-supporting devs instead of devs that don't care. (Personally, official support for proton is fine too)

So you're suggesting we should stop buying games at all, then? As if that would help anything...!

That's obviously not what they're suggesting.

It's not what they intended to suggest, but is it not really, in practise? When you think about it?

The list of major developers supporting Linux today is... Practically non-existing. There's *no* games that I want to play being released the last year that's pushed by a Linux supporting developer. And I'm not here to play Tux Cart and tiny retro indies for the coming years.

So yes - in *reality* that's the suggestion. And my point is of course that this suggestion is meaningless. If we don't purchase the games from devs that don't care, they won't even notice. The *only* consequence is that we won't be experiencing those games.

Tastes differ. I mean, I have a bias towards buying games that are native over using Proton, but it's fairly mild. And yet, so far I've only actually bought ONE game with the intent to play it on Proton (So far, it doesn't work).
Thing is that I happen to be mostly into strategy games or games like Shadowrun with turn-based combat, and Linux is pretty well supplied with that kind of stuff. If your taste is AAA stuff, then yeah, I expect Linux native seems like much more of a wasteland.

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So the news here is . . . they've branded it?

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Humans. Do. Not. Work. As. Batteries.
That was by far the stupidest thing about The Matrix . . . or at least, the biggest stupid thing. Shouting out to it is just a bad idea. Let the concept die.

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Quoting: KeyrockI'll believe it when I see it. Good AI is one of the most difficult things to properly implement.

Yeah. And then when you succeed, they take over civilization and enslave us all. AI is just a PITA no matter what.

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What I'd like is a tab to manage megastructures. When I have a big sprawling empire I sometimes sort of lose track of them.
I've also been having a silly management problem with war . . . I keep getting to a point where I've already grabbed all the enemy territory I can find, but they won't give up because I missed a couple of systems and/or planets, so I have to look and look to figure out what I have to nab to end the thing. It would be nice if, where it tells me I have penalties to get a surrender because I haven't occupied systems or planets, it would also tell me just what systems and planets those are.
Right now I'm in a war where I finally realized that the missing systems were occupied by someone else they're at war with, but the game won't let me grab those systems because I'm not at war with the people doing the occupying. It's starting to look like I'm going to have to start another war just to finish this one.

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Quoting: TheRiddickUnfortunately the don't support games that don't support Linux argument has never worked, and in fact has wholly backfired on the Linux gaming community as developers get even colder towards Linux in general.

Of course it's never worked, we're like 1% of the market. There is nothing we can do as Linux gamers that would "work". But the idea that preferentially buying Linux native games has been counterproductive is utterly silly. Really, think about what you're saying here--it seems to translate to "If only the 1% of the market that is Linux gamers had refrained from buying Linux native games, we'd have a much better Linux gaming scene!!!" Uh, sure, that makes sense.

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Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: CatKillerIt's just visiting Netflix with Steam's built-in browser and adding a bookmark.

For you and me sure, but users will expect something similar to a android app. So you can expect someone to built an electron app with a shinny N icon on it (or maybe a flatpak), which in practice it's the same thing

The demo units they gave to journalists already had the bookmark made.

Well that's a good thing, then.

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