I think I will pass; I get enough tidying up in real life®, tankyouverymuch.

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We all saw what happened with Fedora when a proposal was put to drop 32-bit didn't we? Sounds like another messy situation. I wonder how much backlash this will end up causing for the openSUSE Leap developers.

Um, leap is based on enterprise, with the latter removing support and the leap developers spending effort to give their users the option of getting it back fairly easily.

No one expects an enterprise product to support gaming and, despite that, leap users can still game. I see nothing here that warrants the comparison.

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> Also, wtf Atari, how are they coming up with all this cash?

Who pays with cash nowadays? As with most acquisitions, the likely walked to a bank and got them to fund it.

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<sigh>

Another game, another silly eula from entitled devs; they don't want people modding this game.

This genre is poisoned far too much for me to put up with this.

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<sigh>

Yet another game where native linux support is steam exclusive.

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I hope they enable age verification with the German government ID card. It allows you to prove you're above 18 without revealing your age or any other personal details.

EU regulations are likely to require compliant verification methods --so: yes.

From what I gather, your German digital id is required to function EU-wide starting at the end of 2026. Until then, age verifications are going to be handled by a (compatible) digital attestation system if needed.

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-verification [External Link]

It seems quite solid: minimal id information for the service provider and no way for an attestation provider to track which sites you are showing the attestation to.

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I am disappointed in some of the reactions this :double_exclamation_mark: proposal :double_exclamation_mark: has received, with some people apparently reading it in the most uncharitable way. It was a proposal that tried to address technical problems package maintainers and release engineering is facing, not some conspiracy to break the “gaming use case”.

Um, how charitable can one, as a user of 32bit software, read: "Drop 32-bit multilib support on x86_64 and stop building packages for i686"?

If the proposal is to drop 32bit, then it breaks everything 32bit. As this happens to include major parts of the "gaming use case", this proposal would break said case.

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Again, this is why telemetry is useful, it can show developers where they need to actually focus, it's not the bad word many seem to think it is.

Ugh. Telemetry driven development is the bane of my computing life. It insidiously causes some devs to use it as a substitute for actual thinking instead of as a support.

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We’ll share more about ourselves when we’ve earned that right.

They are hereby officially promoted to "a bunch of clowns". Next step up in rank involves the f-word.

Sharing info isn't a right to be earned. It's an essential (not necessarily sufficient) step on the way to getting a chance of earning trust.

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Scott mentioned how this isn't some "corporate 'exit' or a backroom deal" but them "doing something I probably should’ve done years ago: taking care of myself".

Isn't that nearly the definition of a corporate exit via the classic backroom deal?

Or have I missed that time when he offered the modding community the opportunity to take over the site and have it managed by a non-profit?

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