Quoting: Penglingthese figures from 2016 painting a rather sad picture, along with a note that by 2014, tablets accounted for 40% of the home-computing market.

I don't know if there are newer stats available, but anecdotally I think tablet use peaked around then, and has declined a lot since.

Edit: here's some recent browser stats, which have it at around 2%
https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet [External Link]

I didn't look exhaustively, but I think it peaked at less than 7%
https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet/worldwide/2014 [External Link]

And was already on the decline when mobile overtook desktop
https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet/worldwide/2016 [External Link]

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Quoting: whizseMicrosoft did buy Mono (well, Xamarin the developer) and also subsequently started open sourcing .NET. That seems to have blurred the lines somewhat between Mono and "offical" .NET.

Yes; Mono is dead, but was a success, because .NET is now officially cross-platform. Microsoft recognized where the cloud money is at, and Azure and .NET are both more Linux-oriented these days. Of course, they also have WSL to try and keep some people on Windows...

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They are also re-releasing a cart racing game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2599800/Spanking_Runners/ [External Link]

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The bottom tier stuff has been bundled before, the middle tier stuff doesn't have great reviews, and the top tier game is on sale for less than the bundle total. So doesn't seem like a great one to me...

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I like the concept well enough, but something about the art style just turns me off.

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Looks like the Doom engine? Would be nice if it ran with GZDoom.

Edit: Sounds like it's using EFPSE, a tool that's similar to (based on?) those older engines:
https://ragnarrandom.com/uefpsew/index.php/Tips_%26_Tricks [External Link]

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Quoting: MasterSleortI say let free market forces dictate whether it is a feature that will stay or not. If people are getting burnt or don't feel the value is there, publishers will be hesitant to use the feature. After all it's also a way to get advanced negative reviews.

This is true - "advanced access" could result in negative reviews that destroy "release day" sales. Hopefully that's enough incentive for greedy publishers to be cautious about milking this too heavily.

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I hope being part of Atari means that Night Dive will return to making native Linux builds; they used to do it regularly, but not so much on newer releases:
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/NightDiveStudios [External Link]

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThis is really a program that should be kept up-to-date throughout the Fedora release rather than pinned to a certain version.

Dunno makes the decision on that (maybe it just depends on the package maintainer?), but it's probably seen as much less of a priority than things like the kernel, browser, etc. Obviously, amount of (volunteer?) manpower has to be a factor.

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualAudacity 4.0 will be Qt-based

As I recall, VLC made the same wxWidgets -> Qt transition, albeit quite a while ago now. Audacity might be one of the last high-profile projects using that GUI toolkit? I see it's still under active development, though.

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Higher resolution on the smaller screen? Are they expecting to run it in HiDPI mode? I guess the desktop environments support that fairly well these days...

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