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Quoting: SzkodnixOkay, now for real: that's a great change. Finally XFCE will start to catch up.

Switching WM in Xfce is fairly easy, but it is interesting how LXQt got Wayland support before Xfce.

That's because lxqt is using labwc as its WM. So could Xfce; but apparently wlroots being written in C disqualifies it.

If this announcement contained some specifics as to what the Xfce devs find lacking in wlroots, and how they aim to remedy that, I think I would've been more enthusiastic. E.g. bare wlroots/labwc (as opposed to sway that comes with its own IPC interface) is still waiting on various wayland extensions to gain important features -- such as exposing to the user which window goes in which virtual desktop (?!).

'Wayland support' isn't a magical on/off switch. Various components of the Xfce environment already got 'wayland support' by virtue of the GTK3 port several years ago. The panel became usable on wlroots compositors as of 4.20, albeit with missing plugins -- most notably the virtual desktop pager, due to the missing extension I was talking about above.

If Xfce devs were to adopt labwc or wayfire are their WM, and then contribute to wayland protocols development to bring those WMs to feature parity with xfwm, they would've benefitted a wider array of desktop environments. Apparently that's an unreasonable ask.

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I wonder if the new Microprose has any interest in publishing Civ I & II -- assuming that it's them who own the rights. All the Firaxis/2K Civs are 'in print', while the Microprose Civs (I & II) are lost altogether.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Quoting: CerberonDonate? To a store??

Putting this type of work under a dedicated 'game preservation foundation' would've at least looked better, I guess.

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Quoting: Mountain ManThe only one that caught my eye was the new Star Wars RPG. I just hope they don't screw it up.

The name 'Casey Hudson' doesn't exactly inspire confidence for old time Mass Effect fans ... assuming that this 'FotOR' won't get buried in development hell in the first place.

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Quoting: PyrateStatements like these are one of the reasons why we'll never get game as good as Deus Ex again.

Ehh... come on now; you know that's a wild exaggeration. Big studios shy away from im-sims because they've never been profitable enough for them. Deus Ex itself could come out only at the absolute tail end of the crazy experimental phase of 90s gaming, under John Romero himself as publisher.

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Downwell is the only thing I'm playing nowadays.

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Quoting: EikeIf enough people do want it, they sell us what we want.

Assuming that it's profitable, no matter the wants, or even the *needs* of consumers; and also assuming that possible satisfactions of such wants/needs can't be manipulated. In consumer electronics, 'products' are slowly turning into further 'revenue streams', or portals for indefinitely extended rentals.

For example -- "If enough people do want" ... perpetual licenses as opposed to subscriptions ... would "they sell us what [they] want"? They wouldn't, and they don't; and those smaller companies that do sell perpetual licenses weasel their way out of it the moment they get bought out.

As luxury/specialist items, vinyl players, or even penny farthings can be produced at smaller scales; what's at issue here is mass production at scale, of things that have everyday use -- things that you can't just "vote with your wallet" not to buy, because you *need* them; things that you can't get from the 'competition' ... because there's no competition when it comes to the large-scale trends like what we're seeing with electronics right now. 'Competition' is at best a short term illusion, when the model requires the bigger players to keep swallowing the smaller players, or at the very least constrain the possibilities with which they have to work.

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Gamers Nexus coverage: youtube link [External Link]

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I hope the RISC-V and HomeLab/Modders are paying attention, because compute is about to be dramatically reduced due to the strangulation on price of electricity, and economic warfare against the peasants.

The direction that RISC-V and ARM seem to be moving in also support the notion that locked-down systems will be replacing today's PCs. Both of those platforms appear to require a ton of proprietary extensions to be able to serve as the CPU of a PC. That doesn't bode well at all for the (farther) future of desktop Linux, needless to say.

The relative 'openness' of the x86 PC platform really was a historical accident, the result of IBM scrambling to make a late entry to the 'micro market'; and they did try to take some measures against it, but failed ultimately.

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