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Quoting: CurupiraHow does it compare to DOSbox-ECE?

ECE is not really a fork, but rather a collection of important patches (for users it does not matter, but it means ECE cannot improve on code inherited from SVN - unlike dosbox-staging, which is "proper" open-source project).

I was wondering, and then seeing you here clearly involved gives me a hint that the answer is fairly positive--so, what's the relationship between this and Boxtron?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWe still as far as I can tell have nothing decent to wrangle .pdf files. Nowadays trying to edit .pdf is the only time I ever wish I had my work Windows desktop when I'm on Linux at home, because I know of nothing remotely analogous to Acrobat pro. And I mean I don't even really like Acrobat that much as software, in terms of how it handles workflow or whatever, but when it comes to taking scissors and tape to a .pdf file nothing else seems willing to do much at all. I dunno, maybe some of the art-type programs can, but that's from a completely different paradigm, not much use dealing with text and merging files and shuffling pages.

Simple merging and page shuffling you can achieve easily with pdfshuffler. It has no editing features, but it does what it says on the tin and it does it intuitively. Just drag and drop files and pages, then save the result.

Thank you so much! That's going to be very handy. I just went to install it, turns out my distro has it already installed and I never noticed the thing.

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Quoting: salamanderrakePeople complaining about UE4 on Linux are just mostly mad about UT3 not being ported to Linux and can't just let it go and move on.

That seems fairly unlikely. And an unnecessarily provocative attitude.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicNot necessarily because Adobe is 'anti Linux'

Not necessarily, no. But I've long thought they must be. Everything they've ever done seems to manage to be an important Achilles' heel for Linux. Look at Flash--as far as I recall, first they did nothing to get Linux browser plugins and such working. Then they made some stuff just in time to take the wind out of the sails of open source workarounds. Then they left the stuff they made crippled. Then I think they did it all over again when they bumped versions. So basically they did nothing except when doing something would create results even worse than nothing, in which case they did that.
Sure, Flash was evil, but for years it was nonetheless very important, and crappy Flash support single-handedly made browsing with Linux a second-class citizen for a crucial few years when it looked like Linux might grow on the desktop.

We still as far as I can tell have nothing decent to wrangle .pdf files. Nowadays trying to edit .pdf is the only time I ever wish I had my work Windows desktop when I'm on Linux at home, because I know of nothing remotely analogous to Acrobat pro. And I mean I don't even really like Acrobat that much as software, in terms of how it handles workflow or whatever, but when it comes to taking scissors and tape to a .pdf file nothing else seems willing to do much at all. I dunno, maybe some of the art-type programs can, but that's from a completely different paradigm, not much use dealing with text and merging files and shuffling pages.

I swear over the years Adobe has hurt us more than Microsoft ever did even though MS was trying really hard and landed some shrewd blows. It's plausible that wasn't on purpose, but I gotta say pretty impressive to manage it by accident.

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I have Tiny Bubbles. It's fun in a relaxed way, a good game to take a little break with, and the bubbles are really quite pretty and their movement and merging really feels like when you're looking at real bubbles.

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If Liam's surmise is accurate, which wouldn't surprise me, this is exactly the kind of reason I find Stadia interesting despite having no interest in using it personally and disliking the games-over-the-cloud model in general. Stadia can create pressure for tools, drivers and so forth to work well with Linux and get developers familiar with Linux.

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Quoting: EikeI really like modesty, but making a 1.0 after what feels after a decade of usefulness seems to be too much for me.

My two favourite examples:

• 0 A.D. [External Link] is still pretending to be an alpha. It started as a Age of Empires Ⅱ mod in 2001, the current engine is libre software since 2009.


• WINE [External Link] reached 1.0 when it had already been in development for 15 years.

In the case of Wine, that seems fair . . .

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Quoting: GuestYou know what?

You know, lately every time I see a post of yours I think of that sketch from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life [External Link].

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleHeh, don't take this too seriously, but I find the tag "NSFW" amusing. Are there any games that are "safe for work"? I imagine even Candy Crush would get you in trouble.

They're all safe for work now. Since Covid, I'm working from home.

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Been playing Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus. So you play nasty cyborged-up religious fanatics that remind me of Opus Dei-type Catholics without any non-fascist elements, mixed with Shadowrun Street Samurai running seriously low on humanity from an overdose of cyber. But that still makes you the good guys because it's Warhammer 40k so the opponents manage to be much worse.
It's fun!

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