From and to those who must work during the holidays.

Merry Christmas, happy New Year, and most of all, thank you.

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For me this year:

XCOM:EW - very fun, I like the mix of story and random maps, even if I got a few repeated maps.

Witcher 1: Good Story. Feels a little more believable than the generic save the world quest line of other games.

Factorio: first play since it's "release". Very nice gameplay.

I think I gonna continue Factorio a bit longer and then move on to perhaps a strategy game. Not sure which.

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Yep, had a knock off of the 1996 Microsoft mouse from beack then, IBM actually.

Also had a 1980's mouse... Basically was the IBM one pictured but with one large central button. Not sure on the brand, Leading Edge maybe.

Right up there with the Microsoft sidewinder 2 button joystick that plugged into the soundcard, iirc. Lol.

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Hardware. Pre-installed. That's it.

It's that simple, I agree... Until it's not.

Mainstream? So business desktops? Home office? Media? Personal use? Gaming?

Can Linux support that? Sure it can. But it can't do it all at once. We can't claim it'll never work because of that. Baby steps.

I work in a Windows shop. My daily driver is a DOS program we SSH into (on a Linux server). We also use a lot of web forms and applications. Could we switch to Linux? Nope.

Some of our specialty programs we occasionally use are Windows only. I do some of our annual training. It's a 1Gb PowerPoint with embedded media, animations, everything made by a co-worker at work. It needs to be updated. Think that'll load on open office? (Spoiler: it crashes).

There's a reason why all the presentations I make for my work are PDF. I know it'll open. Where ever I take it.

I think Linux will be a great mainstream driver for home use, gaming, and maybe even some home office. We'll hit a wall once we get into more specialized operations. That's ok. We don't have to solve every hurdle at once.

And the only way to start is to offer competent hardware pre-installed.

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I remember reading an article about this game some time ago. I think the "crypto" part is what backs the in game currency, which people spend real money on.

But yeah, the description I remember reminded me of the Sims and second life. It even mention people putting ridiculous sums of money into it (atleast by my life standards).

The whole metaverse game thing isn't my bag... But if you're into it, I'm glad you found something you like.

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Yeah, BZ1 I really struggled with control wise and while 2 was nice, it was kinda in that weird time when everyone did 3D, but the quality and lack of computing power meant the 3D environments and characters were kinda desolate.

Sacrifice had the same problem with environments, but had a lot of (goody) character, especially compared to BZ2, which I felt was a little bland compared to the cool industrial/cold war theme of BZ1.

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"a co-operative, competitive, asymmetric, third-person, first-person, RTS, FPS, shooter-hybrid thing that takes place in the Half-Life universe"

Not gonna lie, I read this line and wondered if someone programmed an AI to spitball "popular game concepts"

I preferred Sacrifice to the Battlezones. I think the silliness really helped.

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Anti black Friday sale by having a black Friday sale???

So edgy....

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15$ seems like a very good deal. Kerbal Space Program is probably one of my favorite games of all time.

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Quoting: Glog78Something to think -> is a good example which did come up denyasis (for other reasons)

If someone removes Network Manager -> is this package essential with systemd networkd still being around or not ?

Just a question :)

Question 2 to make it hard -> if one distribution says it is essential and the other says it isn't -> what would you as an developer of a not distribution package choose as an answer ?

Question 3 to make it completly lost -> what if the user wants to exchange network manager against wicd ?

Good questions. I'm not sure if it's "Essential", in terms of apt's "Essential" or not ( or for the basic functioning of Sude) It's default on both my systems, but, jumping to #3, that's actually a graphical option in YAST in openSuse (which requires authentication).

Back to #2, I would probably mark things that effect core functionality of what you expect to function on a Desktop as Essential. So yeah, I'd mark it "Essential" if I were a Dev. Here's my thought. If I remove it ( without having a replacement setup), you likely don't have a functioning system anymore. Can't look up why the network is failing (no internet), nor install alternatives to wickd, networkd or connman, etc (no internet). You can't automatically assume they have an alternate internet connection (phone, other computer, friends, public internet) to diagnose and fix the problem.

I think that decision really comes down to the goals and objectives of the Distro (including user thier expected user base) I wouldn't expect that on Arch/Gentoo/LFS where you might pick you network deamon during setup. But I might on a Distro that installs it by default and targets general users like me. (I can't really expect a user to know what every package is, or it's importance from the package name).

PS. Thanks for the PolKit info. Gives me some doors to peek at. In a stroke of good UI, XFCE tells you exactly what is requesting permission when it asks for the admin password. I know it's PolKit's org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.modify.system.settings rule (I'm paraphrasing the name a bit), because it lists it. Sadly (perhaps bad UI?), I know what the rule request is, but not what exactly invoked the rule.

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