Ah. Between 2008 (when I switched to Linux on my desktop) and 2013 I had plenty of time at hand. Well I had the Indie Bundle titles: Aquaria, World of Goo, Trine, Braid, Shank, Bastion, Limbo. Nice games, but I definitely didn't have to think about my pile of shame...

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Quoting: whizse"ESD strap should make skin contact! Oops." :grin:

Unless of course if these are antistatic/conductive gloves.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff.

Could you share some examples? Being a web developer I would be genuinely interested in such pages, because so far I haven't come across such websites (or rather these which showed quirks showed - different - quirks in Blink based browsers, too). And since I web development is my daily job, I'd say nowadays you have to put in some real effort to get something to work on Chrom(e|ium) but not on Firefox.

Huh. Maybe it has something to do with extensions, then. Perhaps I'm typically using an adblock on Firefox but not Chrome? I should do a bit of experimenting.
Examples that stand out in my mind are articles on the CBC website (that's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's BBC equivalent), where Chrome seems to show the conversation threads below but Firefox does not, and EBSCO, a major player in scholarly journal publication. I work in a university library and often have reasons to follow links to articles in our holdings. Chrome shows Ebsco articles no problem, Firefox shows a blank page. The problems seem to be the same on Windows at work and on Linux at home.

Adblock can slaughter some webpages. (I have a PiHole running on my router and Google AdSense won't work (on any browser) before I turn it of.) On cbc.ca 28(!) resources are blocked by uBlock Origin. Turning of uBlock PiHole blocks some more requests AND the "Facebook Container" add-on.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff.

Could you share some examples? Being a web developer I would be genuinely interested in such pages, because so far I haven't come across such websites (or rather these which showed quirks showed - different - quirks in Blink based browsers, too). And since I web development is my daily job, I'd say nowadays you have to put in some real effort to get something to work on Chrom(e|ium) but not on Firefox.

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Quoting: Guesti heard snaps are propreitary. is that true?

No. They are not. The Snap Store is not Open Source.
If you want to check the rest of the code:

https://github.com/snapcore [External Link]

Edit: Naturally you can bundle proprietary software as snaps - which is probably their prime use case.
Edit 2: It seems as if Mozilla preferred the packaging as snap.

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Quoting: GuestUbuntu will get a lot of hate for the switch to snap for Firefox even though this is driven by Mozilla and a lot of the arguments used against it just aren't true anymore. Frankly I think it this move makes perfect sense and I would wager that the vast majority of users won't even notice the change

I'd say the major problem I encountered are slow first starts of applications. BUT: this seems more an issue of the packaged application and not Snap per se. Blender as snap starts pretty much instantly. Chrome was once utterly atrocious, now I have a two or three seconds overhead. The Zoom client is about the same. Jetbrains IDEs went from "quite acceptable" to total garbage (we are talking about 1 minute or more startup time on an SSD system - starting it from their own launcher takes a mere seconds). Subsequent starts were/are always fast.

As far as "resource hunger" goes: Both memory footprint and mass storage usage hardly make a difference (if packaged properly).
PHPStorm will eat up <500MB as (compressed) snap package and 1.4GB as (uncompressed) binaries.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlGnome out of the box is ugly and to make it useful you have to add plugins to it. The default should be a useable desktop without the user having to do anything.

Imagine if a Windows user had to add a taskbar themselves...

Whether Gnome is pretty or not will always boil down to personal preference. All desktops provide the means to launch applications, switch between them and arrange windows. That's pretty much all I need a desktop for. Most distros nowaday come with Gnome as their default choice and many of them in turn add their set of extensions to add functionality deemed missing. Ubuntu or Pop OS is perfectly usable OOTB.
The really grating thing about Linux? The users that have to start a flame wars just about anything. DEs, init systems, audio servers, file systems. The list goes on.

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Quoting: LachuI will be happier if the jump was after releasing this version of proton (which should support any Windows games).

Proton will never support all Windows Games. But "most" should suffice.

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Quoting: TeodosioI think this is good news, Feral ports were usually not very good: lower performance, delayed patches, additional bugs, etc.. The very idea of "porting" smells of a sub-par product.
I like to see *native* releases; it they cannot provide that, ensuring good compatibility with Proton may be better than a port.

The last Feral ports (i.e. Vulkan) run better than the proton/dxvk version. See for example total war here [External Link] or Shadow of the tomb raider [External Link].

However, these comparisons were taken quite some time ago. Presumably the native ports stayed where they were, Proton evolved and might yield more competitive results today.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Tuxee..They have a device with a pre-installed shiny working frontend and - say - 80% of their games working. For the extra 20% which might work you have to prepare boot media, drivers, put up with no frontend designed for the device...

The Deck frontend is the BPM redesigned, which means it will be available for Windows as well.

Is this fact or just guessing? Anyway, you are viewing that from the Linux user perspective which pretty much always has been forced to install an OS and setup the system. This is something rarely ever happens to Windows users.

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