Quoting: pleasereadthemanualNow, if only governments would outlaw region locking with DVDs and Blu-Rays. Region-locking shows on streaming services is bad enough, but region locking physical media is incredibly greedy. Or how about creating firmware for DVD players that will refuse to play discs not authorized to play in this region? How was anti-consumer behavior like this ever allowed? Was anyone allowed to publish a hardcover book which would combust if a customer attempted to open it in Australia?

Fuck region locks. For any reason.

Yeap, only the "recent" 4K/UHD Blu-ray discs are region-free at last...

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Fucking great! :heart:

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Quoting: tuubiIt's not just non-techy people who like Mint. I'm a computer nerd since before it was cool, with well over two decades on Linux now, and Mint serves me very well at home and at work. It's a polished distro with an out-of-the-box desktop experience that requires very little tweaking to suit my tastes and use cases.

If that makes you doubt my Linux chops, maybe it helps if I tell you that I ran Gentoo for a couple of years as my daily driver back when it was relatively new and anything but user friendly.

Dude, I agree with you, I really don't know where you get that idea, because I didn't. :happy:

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On the top contributors Leaderboard: "learn godot boycott unity" lol. :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't use it but I'm glad it exists, 'cause if odd things happen with Ubuntu I could end up still able to use Mint thanks to its existence.

Or I mean you could just install Debian and pick Cinnamon during install...

That would be fine if Mint simply slapped a different DE on Ubuntu/Debian and called it a day. Would be a bit silly if they did, don't you think?

Honest question; what do they do different that would make me want to switch to Mint DE over just Debian? Debian has a much more flexible installer (still one of the best if you need software raid, or anything funky). These days it's just a matter of install, maybe run 'apt install nvidia-driver' and be done with it. My last few installs (that were non-nvidia) just worked out of the box with all drivers / hardware detected and is rock solid.

Maybe you're right, or wrong, I don't know exactly what Mint does or not (but I don't think it's just "that")...
But the thing you seem to forget is that Purple Library Guy don't like much tech things, as he said about it many times, so I'm sure just install Mint (classic or Debian Edition) is simpler for him than to install Debian.

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While previous games in the series including SteamWorld Dig, SteamWorld Dig 2, SteamWorld Heist and SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech all had Native Linux releases — this time SteamWorld Build will not

The end of an era (I have all SteamWorld games)... :sad:

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Quoting: Avehicle7887They didn't treat Mac and Linux users nicely on GOG so I'm not sad to see them go.

Good riddance

I think it's a bit harsh to say that, even if I agree with you on this point and I'm often angry to see some devs not care about GOG users etc... It's the reason I didn't buy Desperados III on GOG, but I have Shadow Tactics.

And unfortunately, Shadow Gambit is Windows-only...

But their games were, apparently, great/very interesting, so in the end it's just sad in the "games makers" world, "no matter" where it's released.

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WTF! :shock:
I can't read their announcement, their website is broken right now...

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Quoting: GuestJust to re-post everything I posted before, excluding the debate on affiliate URLs.

GOG silently added a new method of tracking that is automatically applied if you redeem a freebie. It is hidden behind very slightly different wording and lets them share a unique identifier with advertisers, Google and Facebook, even if you don't have an account with them.

On GOG, under "Subscriptions and communications" (/en/account/settings/subscriptions), there is a new option, "Marketing communications through Trusted Partners’ services". There is a support article regarding this change. Make sure that you untick this if you don't want your data to be treated this way.

Yeah I saw that and was thinking to speak about it too... It's really horrible coming from GOG though. :sad:
And to read "Trusted Partners" about "Google ads" and "Meta ads" is a joke seriously... *facepalm*

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