Quoting: TimmyI’d like to challenge critics to state what moral principle you feel is at stake. If it’s okay for one company to avoid the 30% Valve tax by selling exclusively through their own store, why is it wrong for multiple companies to work together to achieve the same goals?

What. The. Actual. FUCK?

Quoting: TimmyI’d like to challenge critics to state what moral principle you feel is at stake.

What moral principles do you think exist, Tim? There's no Universal list of axiomatic Moral Principles issued by a cosmic HR department that everybody can look to, so you'll have to present them if you want to talk about them.

How about you tell us what you think you're being criticized about, and give us some examples. People who don't like you or your company store, or whatever, are under absolutely no obligation to meet your "challenge" or prove anything at all to you or anyone. What? If you don't feel like they've made a worthy case then they'll have to like you?

Quoting: TimmyIf it’s okay for one company to avoid the 30% Valve tax by selling exclusively through their own store...

Which company Tim? GoG? Itch? Walmart? All of these are avoiding Valve's "30%" fee (a tax may be a fee, but a fee isn't a tax; Valve isn't a government, Tim). First you make us play "Guess the Moral Principle," and now we have to play "Guess the Company?" This isn't a very good challenge, Tim.

Quoting: Timmy... why is it wrong for multiple companies to work together to achieve the same goals?

You mean like price fixing? [External Link] That's a legal thing that depends upon what is being sold and where, it seems. You need to---again---say what is being called wrong, here, and then say why it isn't, Tim, or is "Guess the Wrong," the last game?

Timmy doesn't want to argue with his/Epic Store's critics or detractors. He doesn't care what their complaints are. He just wants to be right, or at least to be seen as right by others as he sees himself.

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What's that you say Canonical's Steve Langasek? You're backpeddling as fast as you can? Come now, surely you'll need to go faster than that if you ever hope to go backwards in time!

On an entirely different note, looks like it's pretty straightforward to install my VPN's client on Solus. Yes Mr. Langasek, I think that's great news too!

:D

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Eleven years of loving Ubuntu has also meant eleven years of growing exasperation with Canonical. This latest announcement feels like just another in a series of boldly taken stumbles made in the name of Canonical progress.

Unity desktop, Mir, that phone thing and its convergence, It feels like another case of Canonical imagining itself as a pack leader, shouting, "This way, Linux!" only to find out hardly anyone's following them. Mir, Mir, Mir, Mir, naaaah, Wayland. Unity eeeiiiiiiggghhhht---er, Gnome 3. They'll go off again, being all "64 bit is the way!!!" and everyone else will be like, "Mebs, but we'll hang onto 32 bit for now, yeah?"

Unless they drop Linux support entirely, I don't think Valve's next move will surprise me at all:

• I can see them sidling up to one of the more "core" distros: Suse, Debian, or Redhat/Fedora;


• I can see them doubling down with SteamOS, expanding it with apps, adding more and more desktop functionality, integrating something like a flatpak software center.


• I can see them leaning over to the Solus crew and saying, "So, what is you're working on? You say you've built it all yourselves? Hmmm, would you like some help with that?"

I'll be sad to leave Ubuntu for what will probably be the last time, but I'm excited to see where gaming on Linux goes next. Whereever it goes, I'm confident it's not going away.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: NanobangThank you for your condolences. You make a good point about a limitation of snaps. For me, another one is that almost every snap I ever tried was unable to access my data partition---where I keep all my music, videos, pix, and games.

Only your data partition? Or anything beyond the snap sandbox? Because that happens to non-"classic" installs.

https://blog.ubuntu.com/2017/01/09/how-to-snap-introducing-classic-confinement [External Link]

As I recall, it was just my data partition. It simply wasn't "seen" by, for example, VLC in snap. I'm pretty sure the rest of the system showed up, though I'm less certain about this since I wasn't as concerned about places where my music library wasn't ;).

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Quoting: Alm888This is a gaming site, so… what does it mean for games?
No more legacy 32bit WINE games (almost all of my WINE collection and 95% pre-2010 Windows™ games)?
Lots of native closed-source Linux games, like "Aquaria" (which developers went defunct) rendered unusable? Who will make Snaps for those?

Dropping 32bit support is foolish, IMO. My condolences to "*buntu" users. :(

Thank you for your condolences. You make a good point about a limitation of snaps. For me, another one is that almost every snap I ever tried was unable to access my data partition---where I keep all my music, videos, pix, and games.

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Quoting: slaapliedje.... This is going to end up like Mir, Unity, Upstart, etc. Where they'll bend to the popular vote after a release or two. After they lose all their users to other distributions.

I've been a pretty steady Ubuntu user and admirer since 8.04, and I find it necessary to abandon distro every few years or so because of some policy change like this. I went to Linux Mint when Ubuntu shoehorned a half-baked grub 2 into 9.04 (or 9.10, whichever) because it broke my install. I came back with 12.04 when Steam became a thing, and left again at 16.04 cause I got tired of broken Mir/Unity promises---especially Unity, which had begun to feel like a straightjacket. Jumped around to OpenSuse and KDE Neon and Solus and a couple others before settling on Manjaro briefly.

I came back with Xubuntu 16.10 and looks like it'll be time to do the distro jitterbug again.

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First impression: "Sigh, pixel graphics."
Second impression: "You shut up, first impression. This game is dope!"

Wishlisted :D

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I've never crowdfunded anything, but I think the concept is great. It's a means for people who have great ideas to look for support and backing from the world writ large---unconventional financing for unconventional ideas.

It's not like the risk is hidden ... in a way, it strikes me less as a form of investing than a form of gambling: don't bet what you can't afford to lose. It's why I never gamble.

I see crowdfunding more like giving money to friends. I never loan money to friends---I decided long ago to just give them money. I tell them that if they ever want to pay me back, it'll be a loan---but let's just call it a gift. I would approach supporting a crowdfunding campaign no differently.

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Quoting: MakiProfiles are transferrable between computers...

Well that's good news. Where would those be stored?

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Free to play? Any word on what model of ftp they're going to do? Also, this project doesn't have the word "roguelike" written anywhere, does it? It looks fun, that's for sure.

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