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Saleblazers mixes shopkeeping and co-op survival with a fresh patch adding UI scaling for Steam Deck
13 May 2025 at 6:00 pm UTC
13 May 2025 at 6:00 pm UTC
Self-checkout machines? So you can do a run as a villain?
End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending
13 May 2025 at 2:54 pm UTC Likes: 1
13 May 2025 at 2:54 pm UTC Likes: 1
She now only reviews reports and a few papers to keep busy.Oh, well then, LibreOffice should be fine for that.
End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending
12 May 2025 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 4
12 May 2025 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 4
The specific campaign is, sure, not that likely to move the dial anywhere much. But that's OK--it will probably shift SOME people and it doesn't do any harm, and who knows? Maybe it will take off. As the great-in-hockey-but-crap-as-a-Canadian, Wayne Gretzky, once said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take". So I'd rather see this kind of thing being done than not being done. And every time, the barriers to switching are lower.
On LibreOffice vs MS Office, specifically Writer vs. Word . . . switching is generally OK but it does depend on use case. I use LibreOffice at home, use both at work. You can do most things in Writer that you can do in Word, like a big most, and I actually like the user interface better overall. Never liked the damn ribbon. But, especially if you don't sweat the fonts, stuff can end up looking a bit different if you open the same file in the two programs. Something can end up a line or two longer or shorter, which if it was designed to fit exactly on a page can be annoying. And I have to admit, I recently was doing a thing where I wanted pictures in the text, and in LibreOffice getting the text to go around the pictures the way I wanted was a massive pain, whereas in Word it was merely annoying.
For a lot of stuff it really doesn't matter if you switch to LibreOffice, and someone who remembers Word with drop-down menus may well actually like it better overall. But if you have to be compatible with other people in an office, I would suggest doing whatever fiddling you need at setup to make sure you have the fonts everyone else is using; that should minimize little differences in how files display and print. And find out if they have to use any weird advanced features from MS Office, because those might not have a match at all.
On LibreOffice vs MS Office, specifically Writer vs. Word . . . switching is generally OK but it does depend on use case. I use LibreOffice at home, use both at work. You can do most things in Writer that you can do in Word, like a big most, and I actually like the user interface better overall. Never liked the damn ribbon. But, especially if you don't sweat the fonts, stuff can end up looking a bit different if you open the same file in the two programs. Something can end up a line or two longer or shorter, which if it was designed to fit exactly on a page can be annoying. And I have to admit, I recently was doing a thing where I wanted pictures in the text, and in LibreOffice getting the text to go around the pictures the way I wanted was a massive pain, whereas in Word it was merely annoying.
For a lot of stuff it really doesn't matter if you switch to LibreOffice, and someone who remembers Word with drop-down menus may well actually like it better overall. But if you have to be compatible with other people in an office, I would suggest doing whatever fiddling you need at setup to make sure you have the fonts everyone else is using; that should minimize little differences in how files display and print. And find out if they have to use any weird advanced features from MS Office, because those might not have a match at all.
Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more
9 May 2025 at 2:50 pm UTC Likes: 1
9 May 2025 at 2:50 pm UTC Likes: 1
2mAfm. By which I mean, "Too many acronyms for me".
Palworld devs confirm game changes due to the Nintendo / Pokemon lawsuit
8 May 2025 at 6:29 pm UTC Likes: 8
8 May 2025 at 6:29 pm UTC Likes: 8
This isn't even software patents. It isn't even bloody business method patents. It's just flat out ridiculous.
15 years after being cancelled, pirate-themed action game Captain Blood is out now
7 May 2025 at 4:56 pm UTC Likes: 6
7 May 2025 at 4:56 pm UTC Likes: 6
I've actually read the original book, "Captain Blood", by Rafael Sabatini. It's fun. Originally published in 1922, I got it off Project Gutenberg.
Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos
3 May 2025 at 6:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
3 May 2025 at 6:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
I might wishlist this, sounds like fun. But I suspect one reason it's being overlooked is the graphics are more rudimentary than Pong.
The UPERFECT UColor O2 is a brilliant portable monitor
3 May 2025 at 6:27 pm UTC
3 May 2025 at 6:27 pm UTC
It's kind of the way laptop computers tend to cost more than desktops even though they have dinky screens and lousy little keyboards and not much power under the hood.
Steam Survey for April 2025 results available, Linux sits at 2.27%
2 May 2025 at 2:52 pm UTC Likes: 3
2 May 2025 at 2:52 pm UTC Likes: 3
I wonder why the numbers get so much . . . bouncier, starting late in 2022.
- GOG now using AI generated images on their store [updated]
- CachyOS founder explains why they didn't join the new Open Gaming Collective (OGC)
- The original FINAL FANTASY VII is getting a new refreshed edition
- GPD release their own statement on the confusion with Bazzite Linux support [updated]
- Bazzite Linux founder releases statement asking GPD to cease using their name
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