Oh boy. Seems tempting...
But outside of EU? That will be quite expensive...

I will stick with https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ for now...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeKind of interesting to compare the major three large space sims, Elite: Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Star Citizen.

For the major large space sims, for me the X4: Foundations still wins...

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Quoting: iiariAnd regarding the top 10 list, still very impressed NMS is still there. What a comeback story.

NMS? Is it still the beautiful, yet stinking pile or crap, full of flawed game mechanics it used to be?
(Honest question).

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1) Is there anything like suspend&resume (on ARM?)?
2) What about graphics support? (HW accel 2D+3D)

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Quoting: ArdjeThey also started collecting the backerkit fee. Of course my card info was already a few years obsolete...

Oh, thanks for the reminder & let me check mine...

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderTrailer looks really nice.... but that is what trailers are designed to be and we have all been bitten to many times by flashy trailers to fall for them anymore....

I really want this to be good, but i have so many doubts.....

That is right. There is a beautiful demo on Steam though...

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: 3zekielFor the "do_something_on_your_own" I indeed do not imply that there is already a competitor in itself. Indeed, upstart came first, and snap more or less at the same time.
My meaning is more that they always do it on their own, there's hardly ever a community going around, they rarely, if ever, involve other distributions, and so on and so forth. Snap is the pinnacle of that, where the server side is even proprietary and fully centralized to them - I think they alleviated some of that, but not sure at all, and it clearly wasn't used by anyone -.

This is incredibly disingenous. Sure, Snap's backend is proprietary, but in practical terms, so is Flatpak's backend - everyone uses Flathub (I'm aware a couple of distros do host their own instance - but they could do so with snaps too). Constantly banging on about "ooh, but the backend is proprietary" is just noise. GitHub is a proprietary back-end, but very few developers moved away from it when MS moved in (despite the additional threat of co-pilot). We live in a weird world when Linux users are giving MS a pass that they won't hand out to Canonical.

What I love about Canonical is that when they see a problem, they try to push patches upstream, but if those patches are rejected (e.g. Unity & Mir), they create their way around the problem. This is what Linux is. This is what makes Linux so special. Fork! Be unique! 20+ Desktop Environments! 40+ media players! 10+ init systems! 20+ package managers! 40+ (easily) file systems! I could go on - shells, browsers, file managers, calculators, window managers, programming languages. They all exist because someone said "I can do this fundamentally better" and whether they were right or wrong, I'm here for it.

Weirdly though, when Canonical do this, suddenly it's "they're not collaborating", or they suffer from "not invented here" syndrome.

Drives me nuts, just so much hypocrisy.

So! Bloody! True!
Thank you

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: PikoloSteam as a snap package? That is very unwelcome - I hate applications updating behind my back. Mozilla provide an official Firefox PPA, but I hope Canonical don't mess with the Steam APT package.

The Mozilla Team PPA is not by Mozilla, it's by a voluntary group inside Canonical (or at least they where some years ago). Mozilla are the ones that build the snap for Ubuntu.

Hmm... Interesting development...
https://twitter.com/kenvandine/status/1520787381770727427?s=20&t=gShwlPo355NEHNW6p8U2nw

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Quoting: TuxeeProbably those days, when games occupied megabytes. Not 50+ gigabytes. I agree that for small applications the overhead of flatpaks or snaps is sometimes ginormous - OTOH something like KiCad is huge already and the flatpak overhead is no longer relevant, same goes for the blender snap.

I quite disagree. The flatpack thing, with just a couple of small basic packages installed, takes GBs of root space. This drives me totally nuts.

Moreover, flatpacks have rarely any integration with the desktop environment, which drives me nuts even more.

And on top of that, is there any mechanism of having "certified/confirmed" developer/distributor of packages (like Snaps have)? This is very much needed in security driven, corporate environment!

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic...One consistent issue with Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros has been, while it's a great basis for a distro and very stable, it takes far far too long for updates for things such as drivers and kernels to reach Ubuntu. It's probably the only real major downside of Ubuntu based distros, so addressing that would definitely make Ubuntu far more competitive to Arch based distros again.

Well, but isn't *exactly this* the point of having an LTS distro?

In office use, you really want a long-term stable (thus non-changing) distro for all your 50+ workstations. In server, you really want a long-term stable (thus non-changing) distro that is tested and confirmed compatible & without issues for your server hardware and software.

So no, this is definitely not and issue. This is a very wanted feature of this distro.

And if this does not suite anyone, they are free to jump on countless other rolling-release distros out there...

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