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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Quoting: CyrilWhere do you live StoneColdSpider? If that's OK to ask.
I think we're pretty "lucky" in France about this aspect, we don't have data caps, except for mobile ones.

But even if you live in the city and you want unlimited data its 80 dollarydoos per month for 25Mbps speed...... 120-140 Dollarydoos per month if you want the "fastest" 250Mbps [External Link] And thats IF youve got the Fibre NBN Internet...... If Your out in the bush you are more likely to have the "Wireless NBN"...... And they have a different price structure....... [External Link] Some IPS are a bit cheaper but they are all around the same price.......

Woah... :shock: That's really expensive (as a French)!
Meanwhile in France it's like (roughly, you can have more speed or cheaper etc.) ~40-50€/month, unlimited data and speed of 1Gbps (down)/500Mbps (up) for example...

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Quoting: benstor214Yeah, a lot of developers don’t respect your drive size limitations. It’s like most of them are thinking: “Why would our customers install ANY other software besides our game, right? RIGHT?”.

Not only hard drive size limitations but also internet data caps on downloads....... Not everyone has unlimited data plans........ I should know..... Im one of them......

Living out in the rural areas means theres not a lot of internet service providers here and the ones that are here all have data caps.........

Where do you live StoneColdSpider? If that's OK to ask.
I think we're pretty "lucky" in France about this aspect, we don't have data caps, except for mobile ones.

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