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Action-RPG in Early Access 'Last Epoch' adds in online multiplayer
14 March 2023 at 5:33 pm UTC

How's the game? Is it any good compared to Torchlight?

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is out now
9 March 2023 at 7:55 am UTC Likes: 2

Bought on gog, no questions asked. A game which is worth the continued support unlike most AAA games today.

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions
6 March 2023 at 10:15 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: dvd
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: dvdI really dislike these flats/snaps/etc for software i want to use daily. Even for one offs like games i tend to like containers you can roll on your own better. Mainly because they they don't want to solve "linux packaging".

I don't think of this as 'solving linux packaging' it's 'solving distribution of applications'. If you've ever talked to a developer and asked 'why is there no Linux version!?' they'll either respond with 'what's linux?' or they've looked into it, saw that they'd have to either distribute their package as rpm (various versions because not all rpm based distributions are created equal), a deb (these work better in different debian based distros, but can still run into dependency crap), a tar ball, or... a bunch of others that use their own packaging standard. By the time they've looked into it this far, they're head is spinning and they're like 'why can't I just release it as an exe?' Well that option is there too... but Linux users generally don't like .run files, or generic blobs either, especially if they require root to install (which even on windows most ask for permission to install crap outside the user's dir).

Flatpak, Snap, Appimage all are different attempts to solve this issue.

My biggest issue currently with flatpak? Gnome-Software has a higher preference for flatpaks over the native package manager! I found a bug report / feature request to be able to change this, but it doesn't look like there has been much movement on it. There is supposedly an option in dconf for it, but i couldn't seem to find it the other day when I went looking.

Which developers? I reckon blob devs won't support much more than Ubuntu and SteamOS in any case, and then the whole thing about generic blobs is mute. (stuff like games etc.) And the blobs that matter for computer operation either get replaced or seem to be moving in a direction where the hardware manufacturers want to produce working solutions for linux distros. It's not really effected by flatpak & co. either.

My uneducated guess is that the ones that can't figure out tarballs don't really want to support the distros either.
Money is better spent on your favourite distro or the FSF imo.

These things supposed to be "secure" but they have some idiotic configuration. My aunt needs Adobe Reader because in 2022 EU and local govt. systems still mandate proprietary programs, so it was installed on her main computer (a snap package). It got infected by a trojan and I only found it by chance, as I ran a virus scan/upgrade for her some point later.

'Which Developers' Well that's the point, we don't know how many developers have looked at trying to develop software for the Linux Desktop, saw the mess that is distributing their software, and gave up. Steam came along and is a great way for commercial software to be distributed, but I'm sure most don't want to give up that large of a cut.

By the way, I've seen alternatives to Acrobat Reader that fulfills all of it's functions, damned if I can remember what it was called though.

Now I'm curious though how you got a trojan in the snap package of Acrobat Reader???

Look, my whole point is, people developing free software have the choice to deal with the "mess" ie. work with maintainers/packagers, do it themselves or just drop their code wherever if they want to release it at all. These new and shiny package formats only cater to blob devs imo., and that shouldn't be the goal of any free software projects.

Additionally, i don't think anyone can convince me that any developer that's making a tantrum about this is not just lazy - the practice has been the same for years - dump it on ubuntu with "support" and the rest will figure it out, and the users understood it perfectly.

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions
4 March 2023 at 11:11 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: dvdI really dislike these flats/snaps/etc for software i want to use daily. Even for one offs like games i tend to like containers you can roll on your own better. Mainly because they they don't want to solve "linux packaging".

I don't think of this as 'solving linux packaging' it's 'solving distribution of applications'. If you've ever talked to a developer and asked 'why is there no Linux version!?' they'll either respond with 'what's linux?' or they've looked into it, saw that they'd have to either distribute their package as rpm (various versions because not all rpm based distributions are created equal), a deb (these work better in different debian based distros, but can still run into dependency crap), a tar ball, or... a bunch of others that use their own packaging standard. By the time they've looked into it this far, they're head is spinning and they're like 'why can't I just release it as an exe?' Well that option is there too... but Linux users generally don't like .run files, or generic blobs either, especially if they require root to install (which even on windows most ask for permission to install crap outside the user's dir).

Flatpak, Snap, Appimage all are different attempts to solve this issue.

My biggest issue currently with flatpak? Gnome-Software has a higher preference for flatpaks over the native package manager! I found a bug report / feature request to be able to change this, but it doesn't look like there has been much movement on it. There is supposedly an option in dconf for it, but i couldn't seem to find it the other day when I went looking.

Which developers? I reckon blob devs won't support much more than Ubuntu and SteamOS in any case, and then the whole thing about generic blobs is mute. (stuff like games etc.) And the blobs that matter for computer operation either get replaced or seem to be moving in a direction where the hardware manufacturers want to produce working solutions for linux distros. It's not really effected by flatpak & co. either.

My uneducated guess is that the ones that can't figure out tarballs don't really want to support the distros either.
Money is better spent on your favourite distro or the FSF imo.

These things supposed to be "secure" but they have some idiotic configuration. My aunt needs Adobe Reader because in 2022 EU and local govt. systems still mandate proprietary programs, so it was installed on her main computer (a snap package). It got infected by a trojan and I only found it by chance, as I ran a virus scan/upgrade for her some point later.

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions
2 March 2023 at 7:17 pm UTC

I really dislike these flats/snaps/etc for software i want to use daily. Even for one offs like games i tend to like containers you can roll on your own better. Mainly because they they don't want to solve "linux packaging".

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions
27 February 2023 at 5:33 pm UTC

Quoting: Klaas
Quoting: CyborgZetaNothing wrong with supporting the people who make, or package, the software I use.
I wonder how they prevent someone from lazily throwing a package together and selling it on flathub while the original authors get nothing. Similar to what happens on Steam, e.g. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/someone-released-the-foss-rts-0-ad-on-steam-without-speaking-to-the-developers/.

Nothing, anyone can sell free software.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive keeps breaking player records
20 February 2023 at 11:25 am UTC Likes: 2

I raged again and purged it from the hard drive. People are so toxic on MM. And the 'casual' mode is a joke, i don't understand why you can't choose the maps like in mm i'd much rather play vertigo with the same 10 people than being forever stuck on mirage... I clock in around 1k hours over the 10 years (well more like 6 years since the port was crap for like 4-5 years after i bought it so i never touched it) In addition to no friendly fire being able to walk through players is also a big problem, since half the time you die trying to peek and shoot while teammates walk through you. The community server browser is crap too - dont know how they managed to fuck that up since it was working just fine even in 1.6. To me it would be more fun than source but not nearly as good as 1.6. I feel the community was far less toxic a few years back, not everybody was super serious and there were less griefers. If there were more active servers i think i'd still rather play 1.6.

Handshakes is a free sokoban puzzler about two hands meeting
4 February 2023 at 10:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

I really love that stuff like this makes it to GoL as well, had a lot of fun with it myself.

These were the most popular Steam Deck games for January 2023
1 February 2023 at 7:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Oh man Skyrim never dies...

I'm far too excited about Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania
20 January 2023 at 11:17 pm UTC

Well i can only repeat myself, but this is in it's own club for me in terms of value for money. (A bit of bragging: Just reached the hotk on 5 bsc for the first time, ofc. he disposed of me quickly... But someday I'll enter the Astrolab)