Quoting: dibz

Quoting: jordicoma

Quoting: dibzAlternatively I wrote this little bash script to update yuzu (early access) if anyone wants it. Requires jq and curl to be installed.

#!/bin/bash -x
OUTDIR=/home/$USER/apps/appimages

ID=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases/latest | jq '.assets | map(select(.name=="yuzu-x86_64.AppImage"))[].id')
curl -H "Accept: application/octet-stream" -L https://api.github.com/repos/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases/assets/$ID -o "$OUTDIR/Yuzu.AppImage"
chmod +x "$OUTDIR/Yuzu.AppImage"

This, and I would prefer using the distro package manager, it's easier.
Probably it's because I'm using linux for some years, that I think that using the package manager it's easier than searching on internet for an installer, downloading it, executing it, and follow an assistant.

Agreed, system package manager any day of the week. AppImages, Flatpaks, Snaps, all seem to be the current (unfortunate) hotness and all of them are sub-par compared to native packaging.

Yeah. I went through years of fiddling back in the day when there was no option, grinding through dependencies to finally get to the rpm I actually was trying to install. Things finally got to where they Just Work and I can function while just paying attention mainly to very few sources that only require a click, and I have no interest in going back. Nowadays, if it's not in the Mint Software Manager (or on Steam) it's pretty close to might as well not exist, for me.

I don't have a huge problem with Flatpaks in theory--mild ambivalence, but not like hostility. So if some game's Steam package is actually a Flatpak, or my Software Manager installs a Flatpak, OK, cool. But I'm not going to add a new, uncurated software source like Flathub to my software sources that might not play well with my existing stuff, and I'm not going to start messing with maintaining a bunch of separate software with separate downloads and launchers. Don't get me wrong, it's nice they made a launcher, it's a good step, but unless I have a really compelling reason that's still not quite at the stage where I'm going to use a piece of software. Not even because it would be hard to install, I'm sure it's quite easy. It's just clutter to lose track of, a source of conflicting dependencies, I don't want that kind of mess.

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Quoting: Valck

Quoting: constAs an open source advocate and hobby game developer, I can't emphasize enough how important godot is. MIT was the correct license choice and the core developers clearly aren't in it for the money.

No one is denying that, but this isn't about the developers of Godot.

Founded by Godot Engine veterans Juan Linietsky, Rémi Verschelde and Fabio Alessandrelli

I took that line from the article to indicate that it is in fact about (some of) the developers of Godot.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismBoy oh boy we sure have come a long way. 4,500 verified doesn't include the thousands that work that are unverified.

Heck, even a lot of the Unsupported work--they just have glitches of some sort.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47I've been using Mint as my main distro since 2016, and this update was harder to install than either of the previous two major version updates. The upgrade script got stuck trying to update the deb package "context," (a dependency of texlive-full). I aborted mintupgrade and tried to run  sudo dpkg --configure -a
But that just got me stuck on the same package. Then after fiddling some more I tried using "sudo dpkg -r" to manually remove context and its reverse dependencies. Then I tried running mintupgrade again, but it got caught with an error saying "there are 1220 packages that need to be upgraded." Rather than upgrade them automatically, the mintupgrade program got stuck in a loop of telling me to upgrade deb packages until I aborted it and ran sudo apt upgrade...

...except my apt configuration had somehow been broken, so I was left with three packages that couldn't be upgraded. I tried mintupgrade again, and this time it got caught in a loop telling me "there are 3 packages that need to be upgraded." So I aborted again, apt purge'd those three packages, and then ran mintupgrade yet again. That time it worked. After rebooting, I reinstalled texlive-full.

The developers said mintupgrade was supposed to be more beginner-friednly than the upgrade process from Mint 18.3->19 or 19.3->20, but for me it was the opposite. It feels so disappointing, because I've liked almost every other mint-specific change in the last six years.

Now that I've actually finished upgrading, I really like it. I'm impressed that they managed to rebase Cinnamon on an almost completely different window manager and still preserve all the features I love, and I look forward to using this operating system base for the next two years. Hopefully they can iron out the bugs in mintupgrade before 2024.

Hrm. Maybe I'll wait a month or two.

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Always good to see more Mint.

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"Karmaflow The Rock Opera Videogame"
Huh. Isn't Brütal Legend the rock opera videogame?

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A lot more powerful and flexible Tween system

This sounds very helpful; a couple of my grandchildren are Tweens now.

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Quoting: amatai

Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: RFSharpeYou have to respect a development team that bases their design/marketing decisions on logic instead of profit.

Someone should email this to Paradox!!

I quite like the paradox approach, though I haven't played their games much. If I had, I'd know what DLCs I'd be interested in. They also frequently release huge free updates.

Curiously, I never got much into Klei's games, though I love the art style. Don't starve was maybe a bit too punishing to my taste.

Paradox problem is that with N DLC they need to maintain 2 to the power of N games for every combinaison of DLC possible.
For example Europe Universalis 4 as 14 DLC changing the gameplay that makes around 16 000 different gameplay combinations.

That could not work and that deosn't work. They try to go to subscription based DLC so there would be only the base game and the full DLC games and to makes the DLC independent with each other by making change only to a limited geographical area.

I gotta figure it isn't actually that bad, or they wouldn't have been able to have a fairly successful business all these years.

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Good news. Not a surprise, considering Deck updates have been including things like implementing Asian keyboards.

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Quoting: Supay

Quoting: Supay

Quoting: SupayThe Beta update broke my SD card showing up as inserted. Tried rebooting and re-inserting but would not even show as an available device. Switching to Stable resolved it.

Checked again by switching back to Beta and my SD card is not recognised. Stable works fine though.

And now Stable shows another update and my SD card no longer shows in Stable and is no longer mountable on my desktop. Has worked fine right up to this update installation. I suggest removing it before updating.

Update: My SD card appears to have had its read only setting tripped and is now unmountable and unreadable, and cannot be returned to a usable state. It is an Integral 1TB micro SD and has been formatted and filled to capacity to test, and working fine, so I am certain it is a genuine device rather than a fake. And it only stopped working when I did my Deck update with it inserted, so be very careful and remove your SDs before running any update.

Ouch.

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