Honestly, once the new NexusMods tool supports Skyrim, I'll be straight onto my third (or is it fourth) play through and I'll be a happy boy.

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It will probably go live on June 28th, for no particular reason.

INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY??

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/international/international-june/international-june-28 [External Link]

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I'll pass on this. Not because of the Microsoft boycott for Palestine that's filling up my Bluesky feeds, but simply because Oblivion was the weakest Elder Scrolls I've played.

There's that beautiful reveal moment when you exit the sewers, then a shine of excitement as you uncover the gameplay mechanics. Then the gates start opening and the entire gameplay loop goes on repeat.

You could argue that Skyrim swapped gates for dragons. And that's kind of true. But fighting a dragon is quick and exciting. Meanwhile, slogging through YAOG (yet another oblivion gate) became tedious after the first or second. There's like 25 of these things, isn't there? Maybe it just felt like there was 25 of them.

Also UE5. Also, the price, goddam. Also, no noods.

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I only got a couple of hours in last time I gave this a shot, probably about 2 years ago. Time to dust off my trusty HEV and give it another go, I reckon!

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You're accusing me of lying now? You've seen plenty of evidence in this thread. You're just obstinately ignoring it.

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So I can assume you did look for the configuration & did not find it?

I don't use Ubuntu or snaps. Even if I did, I wouldn't respond to the tone of your replies.

SOURCE!? he cried, into the void, ignoring or shooting down supportive comments.

Nah. It's sunny outside.

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@poiuz: the tone of your reply is super-depressing, ngl. You contradict everything without saying anything positive, or offering solutions (not that I can even see a problem that needs a solution, tbh).

I don't have room in my life for that. I'll leave you to chat with anyone else who wants to argue what a store is.

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For shame, Liam!! :grin:

I always assumed Simon was part of Canonical. Such a big community around all this, I'm kind of surprised something like this doesn't happen more often. Test, test and test again, I suppose.

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As Tuxee notes, Prime Gaming just gives you keys to other stores, mainly, although they do run their own "store". I have 140 games on GOG now, probably 130+ of those are thanks to Prime Gaming.

You're kind of right with some of the other stores though. Epic keys, Prime keys and Microsoft Store keys might be revoked... who knows? Is it likely? Nope. Are you paying for it? Kind of - I mean, you are paying for Prime, but your £9/month is probably for other reasons. I pay it for free delivery on Amazon, although I'm rethinking these days as I'm massively reducing how much I spend there. Other people might be paying for the TV shows, or the music sub. They throw every service at you for that £9/month, so it's not like you lose out particularly by trying more services.

Then there's Luna, but I've not tried that, and it's not part of Prime. I don't like cloud-streaming gaming services.

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@Tuubi, no I didn't see that "Properietary (backend)" bit, because I clicked on the "Snap Store" link in the table of contents, and when you do that, you're taken (confusingly) to another box-out that claims it's GPL3. Not a great article, tbh!

As others have said, yes, it seems likely that the store itself is still proprietary software, but as others have said, you can absolutely remove/change/add as many repos as you want to your snapd config, exactly as you can with Flatpak. But no-one will because, like flatpak, it's convenient to just use the store where everything is hosted. For snaps, that's Canonical's (proprietary) server, and for Flatpak, that's (open-source) Flathub.

This "The Register" article from 18 months ago talks about how to set up your own "snap store". Still don't know why you'd do that, but there you go. https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/snap_without_ubuntu_tools/ [External Link]

I don't get the attitude to the fact that the store is proprietary. If you use Steam, you trust valve. If you use Github, you trust Microsoft. If you use AUR, you trust... a community of random internet geeks! :grin:

And sure, if you run Ubuntu, or try out snaps on another distro, you trust Canonical. But for some reason, this leaves folks pretty outraged.

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