The tragic part isn't even the immediate effects in the UK but that this sets a precedent for governments elsewhere that it can be done. Non-engagement with such a system should be seen as a duty by both vendors and by the people suffering under it.

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I was one of the naysayers. I saw the move as capitulation. And it's still not technically incorrect to call it "Gaming on Windows on Linux".

But even I must admit the needle has moved. The Steam usage stats for Mac and Linux have flipped in the years following.

I don't play games anymore (coincidentally, the last time I signed into Steam was also 7 years ago), but I have enjoyed watching Valve actually begin to crack the monopoly, with their Steam Decks finally seeing success where Steam Machines hadn't.

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Improved visibility is welcome. I struggle enough trying to keep up with arena style gameplay. I was brought up on slow paced console shooters like Halo so all of these fast parkour arena shooters have never felt quite right with me.

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One possibility is that GNOME is causing schisms within the FOSS ecosystem by shoehorning their own standards. Microsoft may just be fanning the flames.

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I'm no fan of Tencent involvement but hopefully something good comes of this.

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I was trying to migrate away from Gnome because of resource usage but they just keep making it harder to justify leaving. Gnome may not be minimal and unbloated, but it's interface design most certainly is.

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Meanwhile, copyleft game availability remains unharmed in Russia. To learn who rules over you, simply find out who hides their source code from you.

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I continue to use Mumble as first choice. I like it's simplicity and self-hostability. However, since other gamer chat software have conditioned everyone into expecting a full persistent chat suites, I am exploring using XMPP instead.

Quoting: EikeWhy? I wanted to do voice chat (Valheim with a Windows using friend) lately for the first time (yay!). I was "defaulting" to Discord, but in the end wasn't sure why not to use say Telegram or WhatsApp (latency?) or, well, we were two, good old phone line.

IMO Mumble is voicechat for gamers without any of Discord's data harvesting, advertising, centralization or other anti-features.

Quoting: pete910It's also easier to do your own server.

No binary is offered to host a server and, in my book, if you can't run it on bare metal you can't run "your own server". I would be much more inclined to call Discord's instances more appropriately as chatrooms.

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One way that any software project can move to become simpler is to stop trying to be everything. I don't want my DE to have its own built in video player or backup snapshotter especially when I probably already have my own tools in place to handle those things.

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All that fuss only for them to release a rehash which doesn't even match the visuals achieved by some proper hobbyist mods. This recent debacle has me thinking: maybe it would just be better to run projects like re3 in anonymity. Host the code on some uncensorable network like IPFS and everyone involved just use aliases and pseudonyms. Anyway, if anybody wants a copy of the repo please PM me. I have prepared for this and would be glad to share the work (outside of GoL) of these good men and women.

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