Quoting: einherjarShould they work for me for free? Why?

Miss the point much? I'm not talking about getting stuff for free; it's the oddity of the fact that the subscription model comes to mind as the first example for 'supported software', and for an operating system no less.

In the enterprise, companies pay fees for a wide range of rights, including calling the developers themselves to fix & recompile a bit of software when something goes wrong. However in the consumer space, the 'subscription model' merely deigns to allow basic usage -- I consider things like security updates within the scope of 'basic usage' -- only as long as the payments keep coming in. Unlike the enterprise support model, it's an arbitrary constraint on your rights over the hardware you own.

Consumers 'renting' software appears to be becoming 'normal'; that's what's unsettling.

-- also, although beside the point, I've also made small contributions to open source projects that I depend on; and I'm hoping to do more once I straighten out my financial situation. (Including supporting this website obviously.)

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Quoting: keanI would even pay for it if everything works well.

I'd happily sign up to that, $10/month for a Valve developed Linux OS which provides the best possible gaming experience for Linux? Hell yes, give me that.

Kinda off-topic but I'm somewhat terrified that the idea of a 'subscription model' OS comes so naturally to people nowadays.

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Quoting: GuestSo, the list of candidate replacements are: Debian, Mint Debian Edition, Manjaro, Endeavour, Mageia and i forgot another one: Suse ? Many will jump ship and the Linux gaming landscape will be fragmented as ever ! :P

openSUSE will have to go through some changes soon -- though exactly what at the technical level I don't think anyone really knows right now. They're establishing a foundation independent from SUSE. Even the name & logo etc. will have to change. Check out: https://lwn.net/Articles/790298/ [External Link]

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Quoting: denyasisThe only thing I'm not still not a fan of, I can't figure out the equivalent of apt-get autoremove to remove orphaned or unneeded packages. I can do it in the package manager's gui, but haven't figure out how to do it on the command line.

For a general table of equivalences, check this out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta [External Link]

(zypper rm -u is probably the command you're looking for.)

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Quoting: Dunc... by Raf Cecco. As were Equinox, Stormlord, and Exolon. :)

I had no idea! What a great tribute.

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Quoting: GuestI personally do not think what does Apple is very relevant to Linux. And they have a long tradition of screwing their customers and trade partners.

I agree with this -- in the past few years Apple has perfected gratuitous obsolescence to an art form. About Canonical, though, the following comes to mind. It smacks of a conspiracy theory of course, but Canonical screwing over desktop users like this could well be the prelude to their acquisition by M$.

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I really like this visual style. The name is a clear throwback to 'Cybernoid' of course; though the graphics remind me more of the earliest Mac games (monochrome throughout, much higher resolution, the dithering patterns).

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Quoting: kuhpunktThey are working on neural stuff.

Research into brain-computer interfaces does exist; and although it's only taking its 'baby steps' nowadays, they're doing fascinating stuff. (Here's a collection [External Link] of academic papers to show that this sci-fi sounding stuff is legit.)

Though I'm entirely certain that we won't see any application of this in entertainment within the lifetime of anyone alive today.

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For anyone who's intrigued with the language, there's a tutorial site [External Link] that looks pretty good (lernu.net).

It's really interesting to see what a case & conjugation system would look like, when it's designed by sane people rather than haphazardly shaped through historical accident. One day (hahaha!) I'm hoping to look into it seriously; though not in the near future (given how badly I'm doing with my much more urgent current responsibilities.....)

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Quoting: mylkasame with steam
how do you think a game knows, when you get a achievement?

Take a look at this series of articles for a glimpse of what Google actually does with the data it gathers:
https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d [External Link]
https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-2-micro-moments-9ba6e042a0c4 [External Link]
https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-3-masters-of-our-fates-620a84792482 [External Link]

The concern with privacy is not about having 'something to hide'; it's about autonomy in the face of behavioral manipulation.

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