Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not sure that is a better question, at least for what I was wondering about. You can run 32-bit Windows on 64-bit hardware, can you not? And quite a lot of the 32-bit Windows out there may be that case, and for that case my surmise applies.

Point is that if anyone has 64-bit hardware, all the above is a non issue. They were sitting under some rock if they were running 32-bit OS on it until today.

Does it matter if they were sitting under some rock? As long as they were fine with their setup, they could make documents, browse the web, play their games, they probably had no reason to care. This could well be a rock with plenty of people contentedly under it. The point is, now they'll be sitting under some rock without their games. That will push them to take some kind of action.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't know how old Windows has to be to be 32-bit.

A better question is how old hardware has to be (x86) to be 32-bit only.

I'm not sure that is a better question, at least for what I was wondering about. You can run 32-bit Windows on 64-bit hardware, can you not? And quite a lot of the 32-bit Windows out there may be that case, and for that case my surmise applies.

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Quoting: Jarmerhuh I didn't even know Cinnamon was doing wayland at all. That's great to hear.

Yeah, a year or so ago I started hearing talk about Mint working on Wayland support. I don't think it can be considered ready yet in general though. I expect there will be bigger developments in 23.

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. . . Do you get to assassinate the landlord at the end?

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Quoting: KeksusThe game is cool. But I wish they would take the time to unify their art style. It's kinda weird that many factions follow a completely different art direction.

. . . Wouldn't it be normal for different factions arguably representing different cultures to have different art? But I expect there's good ways and bad ways to do that.

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Systems running 32-bit versions of Windows will continue receiving updates to the 32-bit Steam client until January 1, 2026.

I don't know how old Windows has to be to be 32-bit. But assume for a moment that there are some people actually gaming on 32-bit Windows, presumably on relatively old computers. After Jan 1, they can't any more. If they want to keep gaming, they have to upgrade to something.

So, what do they upgrade to? They can't upgrade to Win 11, it won't run on their hardware. Probably, most Windows newer than whatever they're using will have problems on their hardware, if they know how to pirate it because MS sure isn't selling the old versions. Also, won't get security updates, but presumably they don't care much about that since they obviously haven't had any for years.

But Linux would run on their hardware. And they'd even get security updates and stuff. If they want to keep gaming that's probably their best and even easiest option.

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They say focus on tactical battles but it didn't really look all that tactical in the trailer.

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI was not expecting Vivaldi.

No one ever does.

You saying the Spanish Inquisition use him as their sound track?

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I always thought what a web browser was for, was to go to the place on the web I told it to go to, and show me what's there. I don't see how AI helps with that. And even if I can opt out, and even if the AI doesn't do anything too pernicious, if the people making my browser are doing this all-in, bet the farm, put all their effort into the AI . . . then presumably they don't have a whole lot of effort left over to make the browser not suck.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIF YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

These days, quite often if you ARE the customer you are STILL the product. Various execs realized why have one income stream when you can have two?

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