Quote[..]the difficulty in securing it is only compounded by all the frustrating differences between distributions.

The world upside down.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: kokoko3k> A number that is getting steadily
> harder for developers of all kinds
> to ignore.

On the other side, it seems we can grow even without all of them :)

Well, one thing I've increasingly noticed about Linux is the software ecosystem is for a lot of things actually pretty decent now . . . and free, and available right in the distro's software centre thingie. On Mac, I suspect open source software is quite hard to run. And on Windows you can do it, but you have to be aware of it and go searching for each individual piece. So on both, there's a tendency to just go with the expensive stuff which these days is often crappy subscription services. For people without big budgets, you can actually be limited in what you can use your computer for just because you don't want to buy (or bloody rent!) the software and you don't know there's another way. On Linux, if I suddenly find that I need to do Z, I may look on the menus and find that something for Z is already installed, but if not I go to the distro's software centre thingie and type in a search term and download and now I can do Z.

So although it's technically true that the Windows software ecosystem is still bigger and for some use-cases better, functionally for a lot of people it's probably the other way around. That wasn't true back in the 2000s.

I agree, our distribution method is far superior, among other advantages, in the sense that is one centralized thing.

Unfortunately not everyone seem to fully understand that, so there is a proliferation of unofficial external repos, and flatpaks, and co, that mine its nature and in the long run they can make us regress.

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> A number that is getting steadily
> harder for developers of all kinds
> to ignore.

On the other side, it seems we can grow even without all of them :)

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Quoting: EikeWhen does SDL have to choose between X and Wayland? If I've got only X running, well, X is it, and if I got Wayland running, I probably wouldn't want SDL to use XWayland? Obviously, it's more complicated, but... why?

X11 users are not affected.
Under Wayland, a choice has to be made for a Wayland """window""" or an XWayland one and it seems the road it will take will be to check for the new protocol implementation to go for native ones.

Usual SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable should allow to override that tho.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me, or have there been a lot of games lately about failing and reconstructing memory, mental trauma, stuff taking place inside the mind trying to put it back together and such like? And if so, is it just a kind of minitrend or does it say something about us as a society?

"Unfortunately" actual society implies minitrends and lack of originalty.

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Seems really nice, altough too much "weavy motion" for me.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: InterknetRemember when we used to reiterate the importance of reading code that you download online? Just me?

People don't expect that downloading what is a new look, will execute random code. No one should have to go and fully inspect everything they download, the OS needs safeguards which here are clearly lacking.

Linux OS ecosystem have that, it is almost born with that, it is called "distribution".

Then someone sensed a problem and found the wrong cure to it; the stores; wild places where everyone can put stuff with a disclamer that you are responsible for what ypu download; your is the need to check.

So I simply prefer to stay with my distro, no flatpack, no snaps stores and so on.

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You can't protect yourself by just blaming the rm command.
Every command that can print can also overwrite contents with a simple redirection from stdout to a file, not to mention mv, cp, rsync... whatever.

Why on earth a global theme can execute arbitrary shell commands is my first concern.

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Quoting: chuzzle44

Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: chuzzle44the fact that I'm willing to buy a remake of a game I already have for free says

...that software houses needs to make remakes to fight piracy?

That making genuinely good games, making them available, and supporting them in the long run will usually lead to success. Just look at Stardew Valley for a very recent example. Highest player count ever after the last update. The companies that make games should love and cherish them as much as we do.

Totally agree, that's the same I think everytime SV is upgraded.

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Quoting: scaineWhy you trying to rewrite their comment?

It was just a joke with no intent to polemize, but since you're asking, it's because I sensed a contradiction stemming from the similarity in the outcomes of "for free" and "piracy".

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