Quoting: rustybroomhandleStill not complete though. They don't say which kernel to test against and which branch of Proton Experimental.

I don’t know you, but demanding much?

In any case, like any of that matters for devs who will be using linux for the first time in their lives.

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I agree with your post, scaine, but you’re reading too much into my words. The winning team is simply the one with the biggest market share, which basically also in this case means you can do “everything” on it, whatever that may mean.

People like being in the majority, it reinforces their life choices and makes them more sure of themselves. It also gives them easy arguments, like I can do that, you can’t do that ergo your thing is shit and mine is awesome. It’s also very easy to manipulate people into feeling bad about their choice with e.g. a meaningless higher number, regardless of the general picture.

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Quoting: MohandevirIt's just sad... Bad timing. The problem is solved, I read? Took what? Couple of hours to get a fix? How much time would have been required, on Windows, to get a fix for a similar issue? Next tuesday patch? Next month? I must admit that I never witnessed a Windows update bricking a PC or generate a BSOD, either... :huh:

But it's Linux, it doesn't have that margin. It must be nothing less than perfect, accross the board, on all distributions simultaneously, to convince mainstream users.

This is something that happens across various industries, not just OSs. I recently had a conversation about this regarding rowboats of all things. Once a company/product is “market leader” in the minds of the people they can do pretty much anything and people just shrug and learn to live with that. Any competitors, however, must constantly be perfect and any slip up is met with ridicule and serves only to reinforce peoples’ conviction it’s futile to struggle against the status quo and keep using the leader’s product. It’s a very curious psychological construct.

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Quoting: dubigrasuBad timing indeed, sadly what a missed opportunity for Pop!_OS (God!...this name!) to show its value. (as a side note, I felt so vindicated when Linus agreed that it has a "spectacularly stupid name").

I am also one of the people that are bothered with those silly names, "Pop!_OS" and "MariaDB" for example make it looks like those are pet projects made by one person, rather than serious solutions.

How influential is this Linus guy in general (outside US/UK)? I never watched anything from him, but judging by how many people are talking about this video makes me thing that this could unfortunately scary new user out of trying a linux distro (or worse, advocating against it).

The video have 1.1M views and then it was first released on their own paid platform so unable to know how many views it had there.

At least there is one comment thread with over 1024 comments with "wow didn't know linux sucked this hard".

Yeah, there are a lot of comments like that there, as if they only saw that one part of the video. Some are possibly MS employees who work on their image, a lot are undoubtedly people who’d never try Linux anyway because they’re happy to remain on the winning team.

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The failing here I feel was in the Pop Shop (which I dislike, mainly for its handling of updates, but that is neither here nor there). When it failed to install the package, it should have come up with a better message that would indicate the problem (Steam package is broken) and propose to him to file a bug.

As the error was meaningless, he turned to the command line, which was not the thing he should have been encouraged to do.

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Yeah, a bigger major version number means practically nothing. It gets superseded by a minor release right away and is no longer the one to use.

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It's nothing like Full Throttle, scaine.

In fact, it's a blatant rip-off of Gabriel Knight. Ill adjusted protagonist? Check. Rides motorcycle? Check. Foreign name in the family changed to English? Check. Parent mystery? Check. Grandma? Check. Grandma's attic? Check. Police station right at the start? Check. Divided into days? Check. I could go on.

I'm enjoying it, mind, but the similarities are mind-boggling. It starts off very linear, with a very limited number of locations that expands slowly as you do stuff, so that's different from GK. That one was quite overwhelming from the off.

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That's quite awesome, though really not sustainable. We need that market share people!

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Quoting: SalvatosDue to "appropriate controller input icons" alone, I feel like a lot of games will fall short of Verified. I rarely see the right icons for my DualShock.

Same with me, but note that they need the game to show the Deck's icons correctly (i.e. xbox icons), not all controllers!

The SD has ABXY buttons, but not RB/LT etc. For some reason, Valve decided to take these from Playstation and they’re L1,R2 and so on. Plus, the shape of the d-pad is very different to the one from Xbox 360, which still seems to me as the most popular controller, so the icons will still be wrong if a dev does nothing.

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Great article as always.

Anyone know how LGP’s DRMed games fare now? I have a few of those, including X3, but haven’t tried installing any recently.

The DRM itself was pretty permissive and innovative, but of course it needs a server to be running.

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