Quoting: ZlopezIt's nice when everybody is talking about diversity and equality and the pride month is only for LGBTQIA+. I just find this funny :-D

I'm guessing it's those who have suffered from inequality who have to start such movements, no?

We could also make a Linuxgamer Pride Month. Judging by the amount of aggression and jokes that linuxgamers have to suffer whenever they uncloak in a "normal" gamer environment, it might even be worth it :tongue:

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I'm hoping the anti-cheat stuff can make Pinball FX3 work one day. Another case of a game that can't even be played single-player because of this. Pinball FX2 worked and FX3 also works flawlessly in WINE if you remove the anti-cheat via a crack.

Buying FX2 isn't possible anymore for new customers because Zen Studios removed it from Steam's storefront.

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Quoting: kuhpunktRelease it on several stores then. It's not like it's complicated.

Last I heard it's very complicated. Each store has its own toolset for uploads, its own publishing requirements, its own system for how updates and patches are handled. An indie dev once compared the experience between GOG, itch.io (the easiest) and Steam (the most complicated), but that was before EGS existed and I can't find the article now. But the conclusion was "think carefully before adding another store", so it seems it isn't something you just do on a whim.

Maybe it's all gotten easier but I'm pretty sure you can't just abstract away the difference between all the stores and call it a day.

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Quoting: MohandevirMicrosoft Wayland Compositor [External Link]

OK, I'm ready for the old folks' home. I no longer understand the world. You all come visit me one day, OK?

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Quoting: MohandevirIf it's a tool developped for Microsoft. it also feels like MS could be laying the ground, block by block, for a DX12, Linux based Windows UI OS... But I'm still highly skeptical about this one. Could it be related to Project XCloud?

Probably not that, since xCloud runs on modified Xboxes, not normal servers. And WSL is used by quite a bunch of developers who don't want Linux VMs. It's too polished to be a Microsoft-internal tool, this is meant for the mass market and seeing real use out there.

The DX12 thing seems to be mostly about machine-learning and AI at this point.

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Opt-in telemetry. That's the way it should be done! Looking at you, mobile games with 12 built-in always-on trackers.

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The Witcher 3 (still! been trying to finish it for weeks) but also a nice native surprise: Zaccaria Pinball. The "remake" and "deluxe" type tables are faster and somewhat closer to what you'd get in e.g. Pinball FX3. And the latter doesn't run on Linux/Proton because of anticheat.

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Quoting: LinasAnd I am sure that is why Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) exists. Not because they actually want their users to use Linux, but because they know that they lost to Linux in the server market, and cannot pull off a compelling Windows-proper alternative.

I'm quite sure that WSL only exists in order to keep Linux Server developers and Administrators using the Windows desktop, and not loosing them to a Linux desktop like they lost on the server side.

I don't think so. It's to make it easier to manage Linux services that run on Azure. Now, admins and developers don't have to run a VM. I don't think MS was "losing" anybody to Linux that is now satisfied with WSL.

I also see developers use WSL instead of a Linux VM on their Windows machines. Since a lot of development stuff isn't available for Windows and since they deploy their work to Linux servers anyway, it was always a hassle to run a separate VM. But none of the WSL users I know would even consider using Linux on the desktop. My sample size is only 4 people but they all say the same: I use it to get rid of VMs.

Though with Docker and Kubernetes working on Windows, maybe that use case is going to disappear at some point.

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Ummm. Better late than never, I guess? I doubt we'll get any recompense for the last 30 years of trauma.

MS is going firmly into the services business where they create an even more absolute vendor lock-in than what they had with on-prem. And it only makes economic sense that they're happy to make money off of renting out Linux-based services. Google and Amazon do the same, but with a lot fewer "we love FOSS" noises coming out of them.

That said, I do like VS Code, of all the Electron-based abominations it's easily the best one. Some crazily useful features in there like remote editing and debugging. So thanks for that.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI prefer cider, personally. But we don't really have that as software.

Yes we do! Cider CI [External Link] is a parallelized CI system a workmate of mine has been developing for a few years :)

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