maybe its because valve is infamous for not knowing how to count to 3 and having "valve time" maybe this branch will be different and work under a different schedule, culture/organization instead of the "anarchy" described by some valve employees...

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: elmapulwe dont need the runtime to be opensource to make an code opensource, if we follow that logic, then we cant licence anything under GPL for windows.

maybe there are some incompatibilities that im not aware of, but i dont think so, if gpl contamined the runtime then an single program for windows being GPL (even if not written by microsoft) would mean the entire source of windows would need to be opensource.

No, this is covered by the system library exception:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SystemLibraryException

Unity is not a system library though.

what count as an system? an runtime to run an application?

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Quoting: ShabbyXPretty sure can't license code written against unity as GPL. That would require unity's code itself to be GPL-compatible.

we dont need the runtime to be opensource to make an code opensource, if we follow that logic, then we cant licence anything under GPL for windows.

maybe there are some incompatibilities that im not aware of, but i dont think so, if gpl contamined the runtime then an single program for windows being GPL (even if not written by microsoft) would mean the entire source of windows would need to be opensource.

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an nice candidate to...port to godot ;)

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Quoting: FisterfrankAm I missing something or are we going backwards? Hasn’t the point & focus been to speed up load & boot times? Not make it 3 times longer.

you know nothing about workflow:
https://xkcd.com/1172/

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Quoting: kuhpunktI mean it's good that they give people the freedom to do what they want, but I get the impression that some people just want to do it for the sake of it - and not because they actually want to watch a 30 second boot video every time. There's no benefit to it.

i think its the same as puting your favorite song as an alarm clock.
it looks like an good idea until you do it.
so yes, people wanted longer boot times, they probably will regreat it... but hey! all they have to do is not to chose this option once they realize its a bad idea.

the main issue is that a lot of other people will start making longer boot videos and get their effort wasted.

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https://youtu.be/hI7V60r7Jco?t=741

i found the number.
they estimated that the cheating industry moves at least 100 millions per year.
just an reminder, that was 5 years ago, i think its safe to assume this growth was proportional to the growth in the gaming market.
as for us, we arent 1% of the market, pc is 23% and we are 1% of those 23%.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI wish macOS wouldn't have a boot splash. Like I could maybe see why it's so slow to boot... It's funny, I actually prefer a text dump to make sure my services are starting, but definitely will set up debian with a splash for others. Since you can just hit escape, it solves the best of both worlds.

if an computer is capable of playbacking an video, its most likely will be able to boot.
if if fallback to text only, then things may have gone south, in any case you can always disable the boot screen on linux.
im not sure about mac

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if increassing saturation make the default look, look boring...
then reduce it may make the default look better?

anyway, i was going to say that, this goes against the way developers/artists envisioned their product so im not a big fan, art belong to artists, everything else is fanart/fanfic, but when it comes to details like color accuracy, unless you are targeting an specific device like nintendo ds, you know that the colors will look diferent at the player monitor, and configurable colors were a thing since the air tv time before video games were a thing.

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its so ironic to see people simulating CLI:

https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/EAelE/pip_boy_logo_transform
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/ENw2Y/nier_automata

i mean, linux had CLI boot screens before it was cool, it was just... what we had, no boot screen, just cli to debug stuff. (and people saw it and think: oh, this is scary! i will admit that i still freak out a little when i see the cli during the boot because i know things may have gone south , its pretty much PTSD)
anyway, some of those are quite cool
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/gErOY/minimalist_transformer_style
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/KEkRn/neo_geo_arcade_intro
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/E1GLP/cyberpunk_2077_system_reboot
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/n8aaE/metal_gear_solid

and i laughted at "whos that pokemon"
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/185cgjIrsULzFRDcVKS7i_kHv7PMoHkKu
despite the fact that i hate 4kids edits

and you know what? we know the year of linux came when people get excidted about an linux device to the point of customizing the bootscreen with tons of options, the OS vendor having to officially support that feature, and those screens proudly saying "steamOS" and not windows, implying those users arent dualbooting (not that they can customize windows that much anyway)

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