Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: scaineWeirdly though, when Canonical do this, suddenly it's "they're not collaborating", or they suffer from "not invented here" syndrome.

Maybe because they are not collaborating? Microsoft has upstreamed more code to the Linux kernel than Canonical has, for example.

Instead of pushing Wayland forward, they create Mir. When Gnome-shell first started out, instead of adding some coders to the pool, they decided to do their own thing with Unity, etc. They keep claiming they can do it better / faster, when they should have treated these core components as a community and pitched in. They fork because they want to be THE Linux Distro. But instead all they do is divide people.

Wow, the kernel argument, eh? Haven't heard that in years! Canonical aren't kernel developers - the only reason MS contributes is to ensure Linux runs on Azure. Meanwhile, outside of kernel commits, yes, they collaborated so, so much - they just got pushed out of a lot of it.

Unity - upstream patches to Gnome were straight out rejected, and their vision for widgets on the top bar rejected (ironic, since, yep, client-side decorations are a thing now). That vision precluded them using extensions, hence Unity, where they made real on other promises like global menu and HUD.

Mir - they needed certain features for their display manager that would fit into their requirements around phone interfaces. Surprise - the Wayland devs rejected their requests. Mir was born. Wayland devs cried like babies for literally years over this decision. Infuriating.

There are other examples. The discussions are generally public and I lived through them. I honestly don't want to regurgitate them again, but people keep jumping down Canonicals throat over this stuff and it's simply ignorant to place all that "blame" at Canonical's door. Sure, Canonical weren't always the good guy in this stuff, but it's regularly and unfairly overblown to be all their fault, they never collaborate, it's all about them, blah blah.

Quoting: slaapliedjeThey fork because they want to be THE Linux Distro. But instead all they do is divide people.

Eh? They ARE "the" linux distro. They have been for decades. THEY STILL ARE, despite quite a few mis-steps in recent years and some momentum around Arch. They don't divide people - they have, by far, the biggest community in the Linux "world". For a long time, people argued (myself included, although I don't really feel that way any more) that we should stop referring to Linux and start referring to Ubuntu. Ubuntu, for well over a decade, was just that synonymous with Linux as a whole. Well, desktop Linux anyway. Things like OMGUbuntu! and Ask Ubuntu, they happened for a reason.

Maybe that will change, but regardless of what distro we use here, as experienced players of games on Linux, almost everyone here would recommend Ubuntu, or a derivative like Mint or Pop, to a first-time user. Why? Because it's still the defacto standard. And they didn't get that way by being divisive. Quite the opposite. It's just that certain loud voices didn't like that they weren't number one any more.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: scaineI thought I'd give the new content a quick try yesterday and ended up spending a surprising 5 hours! It's such a cool game, and the new content is very well done. Really enjoying it.

I played the original over five years ago (achievement: Go outside, yes! :D ). Will I stumble over lots of content that forgot enough to not be able to avoid it, but not enough to be amused again?

I don't think so. Basically, right after the second turn in the corridor outside your office, door 416 is now open with a big sign saying "New Content Here". I zipped through some of the older content, but didn't see much change, so I think they've done a good job of keeping it all obviously separate.

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I thought I'd give the new content a quick try yesterday and ended up spending a surprising 5 hours! It's such a cool game, and the new content is very well done. Really enjoying it.

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Quoting: 3zekielFor the "do_something_on_your_own" I indeed do not imply that there is already a competitor in itself. Indeed, upstart came first, and snap more or less at the same time.
My meaning is more that they always do it on their own, there's hardly ever a community going around, they rarely, if ever, involve other distributions, and so on and so forth. Snap is the pinnacle of that, where the server side is even proprietary and fully centralized to them - I think they alleviated some of that, but not sure at all, and it clearly wasn't used by anyone -.

This is incredibly disingenous. Sure, Snap's backend is proprietary, but in practical terms, so is Flatpak's backend - everyone uses Flathub (I'm aware a couple of distros do host their own instance - but they could do so with snaps too). Constantly banging on about "ooh, but the backend is proprietary" is just noise. GitHub is a proprietary back-end, but very few developers moved away from it when MS moved in (despite the additional threat of co-pilot). We live in a weird world when Linux users are giving MS a pass that they won't hand out to Canonical.

What I love about Canonical is that when they see a problem, they try to push patches upstream, but if those patches are rejected (e.g. Unity & Mir), they create their way around the problem. This is what Linux is. This is what makes Linux so special. Fork! Be unique! 20+ Desktop Environments [External Link]! 40+ media players [External Link]! 10+ init systems [External Link]! 20+ package managers [External Link]! 40+ (easily) file systems [External Link]! I could go on - shells, browsers, file managers, calculators, window managers, programming languages. They all exist because someone said "I can do this fundamentally better" and whether they were right or wrong, I'm here for it.

Weirdly though, when Canonical do this, suddenly it's "they're not collaborating", or they suffer from "not invented here" syndrome.

Drives me nuts, just so much hypocrisy.

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I love this tool too, but by default it uses your default KDE theme, which somehow rendered all the text unreadable. Worse, when I changed my theme in settings, the app didn't seem to care.

Anyway, cutting to the case, it turns out they have an over-ride for theming, but for some reason hid it in the "About" button. I stumbled on it by accident. Hit "About", then choose the Dark theme (or light theme, just don't choose "system"). Boom - text is readable again.

No idea what it was about my theme it didn't like - I'm just using mostly built-in stuff, like Breeze-Dark, although I did install a Kvantum theme for window decoration, so maybe that interfered with it somehow. Anyway, easily fixed, and proton-up is a great tool, even just for pointing out which of your steam games you've configured for which version of proton you've installed! So useful.

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Projekt Z is not just a basic zombie coop game, it's a management game.

But I disagree...

Find food, water, gas, and other resources to give the people in your hub a chance to survive.

Are you going to upgrade your weapons and characters, or do you help someone? It's all up to you and your friends.

You disagree, but then quote the very aspects of the game that support the viewpoint you disagree with? I'm a bit confused.

Quoting: WalebausIt is in fact "just another zombie coop game" or just what I thought when I saw the article intro. And have we already forgotten the DayZ debacle?

It certainly doesn't sound like just another zombie coop game. And what's this about DayZ - was it the same devs or something? Or does one failure in a specific genre mean that any attempt to create further games in that genre must be shown scorn for even trying?

I'm leaning towards reading your comment extremely negatively, but I'm not completely certain you meant it like that? And if it is a truly negative comment, I'm still at a loss as to why?

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That's a great turnaround from a few years ago, when the threatened removal of 32-bit libraries would have crippled the O/S from a gaming perspective.

A better gaming experience in what is still an incredibly popular "entry" distro is superb news.

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I could have sworn that Arcen nearly went out of business a year or two ago... turns out that was January 2016, over 6 years ago, and it looks like AI War 2 is what may have brought them back from the brink.

Also, nice touch - all their games exist in the same universe [External Link], albeit centuries apart.

I'm not really a big fan of the genres they tend to pick for their games, but I loved Bionic Dues. I have no idea what their next game is about however.

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Hopefully far less annoyance from game launchers now.

Soz, but game launchers will always... ALWAYS... be annoying. I've yet to find one that justifies its existence. They're all utter shit, totally pointless.

But yeah, at least the Deck doesn't flicker them in and out of existence now.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyI quite literally just finished manually backing-up my data (by copying-and-pasting to a "spare" storage drive - I don't trust "automatic" back-up tools), and now I'm just waiting for Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS to drop, so I can do a "clean" install (I always do a "clean" install when a new 'LTS' release drops, to rid my system of any unwanted junk)...

Copy and paste? May I suggest the following:
 
rsync -avxHAX [src] [dest]
You will get all the permissions and stuff that way.

Yeah, the best thing about rsync is that it preserves the dates when it copies the files over - I wish drag/drop offered this. Oh, and the other amazing thing about rsync is that if you're interrupted and have to stop the copy, you can just issue the exact same command later and it'll just pick up from where it left off, skipping files that are already in sync - super cool.

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