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Quoting: slaapliedjeAnyone figure out how to get it onto the SteamDeck yet? Still maintain that Gnome would have been a better interface on it...

Gnome would be a worse interface due to it’s forceful restrictions and constant desire to break it’s addons.

Plasma is looser but less likely to decide things like “the global file menu isn’t necessary” or “the calendar and clock should be centered”.

On a tiny screen none of that matters. It's better at a touch inferface (matters), and in fact it's restrictive nature is probably better on a system that is sort of locked down in the first place. Also, later versions of gnome allow you to move the clock/calendar and notifications to other places (at least I'm pretty sure I saw the option somewhere). Really the ONLY argument I can see against using Gnome on it is 'it's not what people are used to.' since there are some changes like not having a permanent dock, etc.

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Quoting: scaineThat's a beautiful looking case. Very tempted... but no need for a new PC right now. One to keep an eye on.

Quoting: Guestmore like Puke_OS!

Seriously? It's just Gnome with tiling features and a dock. No need to be weirdly aggressively rude about it.

Nah, they janked it more with 22.04 and called it Cosmos or something. I tried installing it on my Thinkpad P52and it felt like I'd installed it on a 386 with an early VGA card! It was a slide show. Then randomly after trying to get it to update, it started working better... but then they built their packages to depend on not having gnormal gnome-session installed (like I tried installing their nvidia-prime package and it'd remove gnome and install cosmos) so I did what I didn't think I'd do... installed Ubuntu and ripped out snapd.

Sad as I really think that's a missing niche; a distribution that is released every 6 months with a new Gnome that is Debian based that doesn't have snapd. Basically Fedora; but Debian.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI rather liked the woody look. I've had a computer since I was a kid (and I'm in my 50s); they're not a new whizzbang futuristic idea any more. A computer case is basically furniture. Most of my other furniture is wood. So I thought it was kind of refreshing for a computer case to go for that woody warmth.

While I can kinda relate to this there is also an element of "Oh gawd...it's a Buick Roadmaster!" or some throw up paneling from a rumpus room remodeled in the 70's.

I'm probably not one to talk, as even though there are many models and styles of the old 2600, I refuse to own any except the wood paneled heavy sixer, which I now have a second on the way :P

I don't have anything against the wood, I like wood. Problem is the original s76 wood just looks like crappy printed vaneer. It has that cheap tacky thing going on.

Uh huh huh, uh huh huh. you said you liked wood.

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Quoting: rcritThe case looks pretty but makes me really wonder how it gets any air into it at all. Maybe from the lower side panels. Oh, and no doors. The whole top appears to slide upwards. The accept panel seems cool though.

I think my problem with these things is that they don't provide a standard ATX back that you can pop out in case you want to upgrade the motherboard a few years from now when the current models are out of date.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI rather liked the woody look. I've had a computer since I was a kid (and I'm in my 50s); they're not a new whizzbang futuristic idea any more. A computer case is basically furniture. Most of my other furniture is wood. So I thought it was kind of refreshing for a computer case to go for that woody warmth.

While I can kinda relate to this there is also an element of "Oh gawd...it's a Buick Roadmaster!" or some throw up paneling from a rumpus room remodeled in the 70's.

I'm probably not one to talk, as even though there are many models and styles of the old 2600, I refuse to own any except the wood paneled heavy sixer, which I now have a second on the way :P

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Anyone figure out how to get it onto the SteamDeck yet? Still maintain that Gnome would have been a better interface on it...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSweet, GURPS rules? Would be amazing if it did!

There are GURPS rules for Girl Genius. I supported the Kickstarter, got that sweet hardcover rulebook in a drawer in the little table by my armchair.

Yeah, I think I did something silly and got the 'Retail package' and have like 5 copies of it or something...

Do I need to post a shelfie of my GURPS Collection? :p I need to stop buying books... or I need to buy more book shelves...

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I still love the wood grain model, but could never justify the price. Also, last time I tried Pop_OS, it was a dumpster fire...

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Sweet, GURPS rules? Would be amazing if it did!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThis! This right here is why I keep thinking I should just pack it in and spend my time playing Amiga or DOS or Atari games...

Emulation is the backbone of my Linux gaming partly for this reason - though, to be fair, most things that use launchers and want me to sign up for unwanted accounts don't generally overlap with my gaming tastes anyway. :tongue:

I do enjoy wondering around giant open maps and kicking random people off of ledges like in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I don't know why, but I just enjoy watching the physics of enemies falling to their doom. The Jedi Knight games are another that is just fantastic in this way. Flinging storm troopers off ledges and to their doom.

Granted, it also made me giggle to play Black and White and pick up the little villagers and toss them about. Maybe I should seek therapy. Haha

Yes, well. In any Star Wars setting of course it's their own fault for working for an evil overlord with such cruddy safety standards. So really, they deserve it.

I used to get a somewhat similar charge out of a little board game, not even a computer game--it was a "microgame" called OGRE. You had a little hex map with bomb craters and stuff. One side had a little command post defended by a bunch of high tech tanks and cyberinfantry, armed with tac nukes. The other side had the OGRE, one monstrous cybertank with metres thick unobtainium armour and masses of weaponry, and it was so much fun to charge forward swatting puny tanks like flies or just running over them and losing a couple of treads. You could move through infantry units, too--the rule was you got to move through them for free, they had no effect on you whatsoever, and your antipersonnel weapons would automatically degrade the unit by one without you having to make an attack roll or anything. I wouldn't mind a computer game of that.

Haha, I always thought of the lack of a safety inspector for the Empire...

I bought the giant OGRE box they had on Kickstarter. They have the old computer game and now a new version of it too.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/ogre [External Link]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/517780/Ogre [External Link]

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