Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me or is "Assassin's Creed" kind of an odd name for a game about Vikings?

It's the established brand name they slap on top of historical period dramas that probably would fare better without any of the convoluted & incoherent (beyond redemption) 'lore' and backstory that comes trailing behind that name.

I really can't fathom why they think the game wouldn't sell as well without the AC name attached to it; what a bizarre place to look for 'safety'.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'd probably buy/play through UPlay/Wine directly, rather than the EGS store or Stadia.

Same here; besides, the uplay store has regional pricing, & whenever there's a major sale on steam & elsewhere, they have an equivalent sale as well.

It's a pity that the windows version almost certainly won't be vulkan based; but I'd *love* to be wrong about that.

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Quoting: wvstolzingdnfdragora is an abomination; but you don't have to use it. Same with any other annoying feature (for me, firewalld is pretty annoying also, since I prefer plain nfstables).

Oh yeah, I definitely can. But as for those buyers of Lenovo ThinkPads… I am not so sure.:S:

Quoting: wvstolzingI'm upgrading right now.

Good luck and happy upgrade to you!

Thanks; nothing seems to be broken yet.

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Quoting: GuestFedora has been "rolling enough" for me in most ways and not far behind if at all, stable, and has everything I've needed in the repos.

Seriously? Wow! I thought RPMFusion is a must, one can not even watch a video (due to proprietary codecs) with only the base "fedora" and "updates" repos.

Well, I definitely do use RPMFusion. I guess it's fair to call that a 3rd party repo, but especially considering its maintainers also work on Fedora I kinda consider it a part of it at this point.

In the past, rpmfusion sometimes lagged behind distro updates; though for the past several years, upgrades have been perfectly smooth.

Quoting: Alm888Otherwise, a good distro for those who don't mind constant bug-stream and half-broken system utilities. Dnfdragora (current repository GUI, at least as of 30 release) is an atrocity and a crime against humanity, not only it is ugly and counter-intuitive as hell, but it constantly crashes (leaving root-level "dnf-daemon" running in an inaccessible state, still awaiting commands from long gone GUI) and leaks memory like there is no tomorrow (~150MiB for every package list re-build/refresh attempt).

dnfdragora is an abomination; but you don't have to use it. Same with any other annoying feature (for me, firewalld is pretty annoying also, since I prefer plain nfstables).

I'm upgrading right now.

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Since 2016 or so, freetype comes with subpixel rendering on by default. It might seem like a minor point, but it's made a huge difference in the freshly installed default appearance of many distros -- before that, a font rendering experience that was pleasant out-of-the-box was a privilege that Ubuntu enjoyed alone. I mean, I wouldn't want to turn on my shiny new laptop, only to start bleeding from my eyes at the sight of fonts bathed in ugly artifacts.

So, yeah, the 'edge' that Ubuntu did have in the past with respect to the desktop has been dulled a little.

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Sounds like it's been a good partnership too, as Miller said Lenovo has been "following our existing trademark guidelines and respects our open source principles" with it shipping exactly as the Fedora team want.

I wonder what that implies about codecs that come only on the rpmfusion repos. Perhaps those will be enabled by default (you kind of have to, for an all-purpose desktop installation).

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Quoting: ArehandoroThis is great! Although I must confess my addiction to PaperWM: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM [External Link]

The screenshots on github are really interesting, but is there a video demonstration as to what it looks like in everyday usage? There's nothing on youtube, except for a supremely annoying noisy short thing.

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I wonder if it can do layout + session saving. i3 nominally has the feature; but it's pretty much a hack, and extremely difficult to get to work beyond the simplest setups (so much so that the developers of sway didn't even bother porting it).

An easy way to save & restore complex layouts like stacked on one side of the screen / tabbed on the other, etc. (something that i3 is really good at, save *reproducing* a layout you actually like across reboots or even systems), would make me consider going back to i3. Currently I'm relying on wmctrl (via a python script; shell gets too messy) to save/restore layouts on xfce; it kind of works.

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I've been touch typing QWERTY for a long time now. A couple of years ago I wanted to try out Dvorak, so I found some exercises, and tried to practice -- the keyword here, though, is 'try'; because the effort almost gave me vertigo, it made me seriously dizzy.

I'm still curious, though I'm really not willing to put in the effort to overcome that awful feeling of disorientation.

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A bit odd that they don't mention the type of key switches they're considering to use. I also wonder what range the price is going to be at.

Mechanical keyboard building is a really expensive hobby, esp. if you want a sturdy frame, and switches with good tactile feedback; if sys76 can deliver good quality at a reasonable price, that would be a huge plus.

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