Kind of following a thought from my previous post a little further . . . I am imagining a situation where everyone outside Ubuntu says "Well, something like that seems kind of useful, but we can't use this without using Snaps (and Ubuntu's Snap repository), which we're not going to do" and goes on to create a more open solution. And then in ten years, everyone except Ubuntu is using this other solution and most people say of the original Ubuntu thing "Why do Ubuntu always have to have NIH syndrome" because they've forgotten it existed first, and eventually Ubuntu themselves grumpily drop the thing in favour of the more open-to-community solution that has more mindshare and development.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt looks like features are starting to creep in that, if I understand correctly, use Wayland to do things you couldn't do in X. Like, can X do per-monitor brightness?

Proper freesync support was already implemented in wayland for some time.

When I said "features creeping in" what I meant was, actual user-facing software like DEs was starting to implement Wayland features that are new features they couldn't have under X.

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Data shows that children in Europe are spending on average €39 per month on in-game purchases.

Good lord, I never even got close to being given that much pocket-money in a month when I was a kid! :shock: That's a lot to spend on items that don't exist!

That's because, back in your day, you'd have some money that you'd be given or save up, and you'd spend a fixed amount of that in exchange for specific goods at the toy shop or sweet shop or wherever. You wouldn't have had invisible obfuscated access to your parents' credit cards for ephemera.

And you would get toys for birthday and not google/roblox/minecraft/whatever giftcard...

Well, on the plus side, less landfill I guess?

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Well, go BEUC!

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You know, 20, maybe even 10 years ago I might have gotten into this. But these days I just wouldn't have the heart--not that I think nobody should be making such games, but for me personally, even pretending to be an oil producer would just make me itch.

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I don't really want Linux to turn into nagware like Windows. Surely something involving sane defaults and the ability to adjust permissions with a right-click on the application icon and in one or two other ways, could be good enough?

Meanwhile, if we accept that this is a good and even important thing, it's potentially a problem if Canonical tightly control it like they do a lot of their stuff, with hoops and copyright assignment in the way of outsiders making contributions, and potential difficulty repackaging it as something other than a Snap (which, whatever the inherent utility of them, lots of the community don't like). After all, this doesn't just happen to be packaged as a Snap--they say it represents close collaboration with the snapd team, so like the whole scheme is tightly integrated with Snaps in general. Seems like it could represent an increase in distance between Ubuntu and other flavours of Linux, and greater difficulty with interoperation.

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It looks like features are starting to creep in that, if I understand correctly, use Wayland to do things you couldn't do in X. Like, can X do per-monitor brightness?

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Quoting: Highball!GMTK Jam 2024 engine popularity [External Link]
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!GMTK Jam 2023 engine popularity [External Link]
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GMTK Jam charts back to 2020 [External Link]

Godot is now a Bulwark. I doubt Unity is going to do anything to earn back all the good will they lost.

Ouch. That's quite a shift.

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Their lines were slinging so much cheese I feel like making a fondue. :grin:

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I can't really call it "too little, too late". But it may be the right amount, too late. I feel like they've lost quite a bit of momentum and this won't really put it back.

Long live Godot! (and other open source engines)

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