Kind of feels like Mono is a corpse they are graciously allowing the Wine people to bury for them.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor me, I feel like there's some kind of discrepancy between how many of these things seem to be selling, and the degree to which they've bumped the Linux percentage on the survey. Like, if they're doing as well as they seem to be, shouldn't the percentage be growing faster than it is?

Nope. It's how percentages work. Remember, this is up against Windows which remains top-dog when it comes to gaming. Steam is growing all the time too, which also means more Windows users on Steam.

Sure, but . . . OK, so as near as I can figure out there are somewhere around 150 million monthly active users on Steam (and growing, maybe more by now).

The Steam Deck shows up in the user survey as about 1%, lifting Linux overall from about 1% to about 2%. So, that would be 1.5 million Steam Decks if all Steam Deck users were "monthly users". OK, not all will be, but you'd think most would because most people who get them seem to like them quite a bit and you're not going to spend hundreds of bucks on the thing only to not game at all. So, the implication of the Survey would be around 2 million sales, or something.

But the impression from all the time high up on the sales charts and other snippets definitely makes me feel like they should have sold several million, like 5 million or something, representing like 2-3% rather than just 1%. So, discrepancy.

This is all very vague because our information on all the sides of the data is pretty bad. So really just an impression. But not an obviously false one.

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For me, I feel like there's some kind of discrepancy between how many of these things seem to be selling, and the degree to which they've bumped the Linux percentage on the survey. Like, if they're doing as well as they seem to be, shouldn't the percentage be growing faster than it is?

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Quoting: AdutchmanI agree with the last tweet. If you look at Steam from a UX/UI standpoint, it's pretty bad because the core UI has not evolved significantly in years.

Is there something inherently good about changing the core UI?
There are some things I'd like to see . . . for instance, it's basically a lot like a browser but it doesn't have tabs.

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There's something I like about the contrast between the unrelentingly grim tone of the game itself, and a title like "Whiskers of Winter" which cracks me up.

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: Claude_LibI have Windows on a separate drive for rare occasions when I need it. The only clue two systems have about each other's existence is that Windows messes up the clock because I keep forgetting to set the RealTimeIsUniversal registry key.

This update might break exactly such setups. The list of revoked keys is stored in an EFI variable (-> mainboard memory), and if Windows is unaware that there is a Linux installation, it will happily update that list - making Secure Boot prevent the execution of GRUB versions signed with the now-revoked keys.

I actually remember there being something about this previously around the time Windows 11 first leaked, where there was some concern that Microsoft was going to force OEMs to keep secure boot enabled with no opt-out, and then since the secure boot keys are only their keys by default you don't really have a way to move off of Windows any longer. It didn't end up going that route, or if it ever does, at least not as soon as some of us expected.

Yeah, I remember that worry. I suspect if Linux was only desktop Linux, it might have happened. But Linux on server is too big and essential, a lot of big companies would not have sat still for MS trying to cut them off on that side.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe movie is not so much a portrayal of the book as a satire of it, poking fun at all the fascism.

Now that you mention it, that's how it feels to me too.

My understanding is that that was what the director was specifically going for.

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Quoting: Caldathras

I have a real sweet spot for Starship Troopers, as one of my favourite sci-fi movies.

Heinlein's original novel is even better.

Far as I can tell, though, the two are in kind of an interesting conversation. 'Cause, like, Starship Troopers is kind of a political thought experiment, taking seriously and conveying quite positively the idea of a very militarist society where only people who step up to do some killing get to vote, and taking for granted the idea that space war is basically perpetual. (In the book it's clear that Earth is not just fighting bugs, but also whoever else is on offer--there's at least one mission where they're running around tac-nuking pink humanoids)

The movie is not so much a portrayal of the book as a satire of it, poking fun at all the fascism.

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Quoting: rambo919I have been arguing in good faith but it seems like it's gotten everyone upset at me because I have surprised them with idea's they find so shocking it's led to threats and insults both veiled and outright.... which is not in good faith.

I'll just shut up then, have a good day and remember to avoid mirrors.

EDIT: I generally don't react well to bullies who abuse their power to disingenuously force a consensus, take that as you will.

Yes, yes, if people disagree with you it's because they're arguing in bad faith.

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Quoting: SalvatosI remember the talk here, not very long before Proton was made, when porting studios were noticeably slowing down after the Steam Machine’s failure to gain momentum and people were calling the end of Linux gaming; how we missed our only chance and now people would write off Linux as a consumer OS for good. It doesn’t feel like 6 years have passed already, and we’ve finally beaten the Mac user share. Incredible gambit by Valve and I’m so glad it paid off.

To be fair, beating the Mac share took a lot of co-operation from the MacOS people; without their sterling work dumping their user share through the floor, we'd still be behind!

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