the game is technically over 20 years old

Steam says release date was Nov 22, 2011; maybe it was available outside of Steam earlier?

One of my extensions (Augmented Steam?) says it was last updated Oct 29, 2012 - so clearly the new update still hasn't been applied to the release branch yet.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Dana SoulyWhat are keyboard AI keys? Is this one button where AI takes over the PC? 🤣

New laptops have copilot key if they have copilot certification thing, I also see galaxy ai button on new samsung keyboards for tablets

Apparently it has expanded beyond that:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-New-AI-Agent-Keys [External Link]

Dunno what jackasses buy that nonsense, but at least you'll be able to map them to something useful.

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Quoting: Koopamarking up games to then discount them

Sounds like they have to wait 30 days to do that?
"increasing a game's price will result in a 30-day cooldown on discounts"

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Quoting: Gerarderloperold game restoration? survivability? dammit forgot the word

Preservation?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI guess the patent office isn't allowed to just say "No, this is stupid!"

They kind of are? Besides prior art, they can also reject it for being "obvious".

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I had noticed the missing tray icon, but honestly did not care...

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhat does DRM stand for in this case?

Direct Rendering Manager https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM/ [External Link]

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Quoting: CatKillerThe VR market is 80% Facebook

I did notice in the Steam survey stats today that OculusMeta Quest was prominent. I think they made more affordable options, which would certainly account for it.

Quoting: CatKillerFacebook have recently reorientated away from VR gaming - closing studios and calling off hardware partnerships

If there was a "free dev money" thing going for a while, then it certainly tracks with a "recent shift".

Quoting: CatKillerIt would be quite a good time for Valve to swoop in with a cheap device that can play all those games without any retooling from game devs, but RAM crisis.

The "Index" was rather expensive; I assume the "Frame" was intended to be cheaper, but who knows how it will be priced now...

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

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Quoting: XpanderI'm using MATE on arch. The attraction for me is that the thing just works without breakages or problems.

Sounds like the main point here is: "it doesn't change". I can see the value in that, but if everything else around it changes, it will only last so long before it can't continue. Others have mentioned X11 being deprecated - it's barely getting security fixes these days, and mostly for Xwayland.

Quoting: Caldathrasadding Wayland support does not equal removing Xorg support.

It does not. But GNOME 50 dropped X11 support. KDE plans to drop X11 support soon (they already split out the X11 stuff in preparation for it). Any desktop environment planning to stick around will support Wayland, and may drop X11 support if they end up with too few active users. That could take a long time in some cases, sure.

Quoting: CaldathrasI have heard that Fedora and Ubuntu intend to ship with Wayland as default

I think that happened nearly a decade ago with Fedora. Of course, with Nvidia support for Wayland being very poor for so long, X11 continued to be well supported as well. I tried running Wayland a few times over the years (on Nvidia), but it never lasted long - too unstable. But things have improved a lot, and I've been using it for the last couple months.

Quoting: Purple Library Guyextensions tend to break when GNOME gets a significant update

Unfortunately true, but that doesn't happen TOO often, and most extensions either get updated, or forked into working versions. I haven't dug into all the arcane details, but I've occasionally hacked up a few when that happens. From what I've seen, it's mostly user-editable / not compiled code. Of course, most "end users" don't want to do that. But the "official" extensions, including the "classic desktop" ones, are kept up to date and don't break.

A variety of desktop environments is great, and as long as MATE continues functioning for you, that's also great. I keep hearing good things about Plasma 6.x, and 5.x before it; I think KDE 4.x was the last time I spent any time with it. Back then, I found it too Windows-like (in look and feel, and stability-wise).

I certainly disliked GNOME 3.x in the early days, with their heavy focus on biased choices and removing options, but these days I appreciate being able to customize it with extensions. A few I like:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6682/astra-monitor/ [External Link]
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/ [External Link]
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ [External Link]
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4648/desktop-cube/ [External Link]
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5446/quick-settings-tweaker/ [External Link]

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