Back when M$ was actively trying to kill Netscape, there were versions of Internet Explorer for Solaris, HP-UX, etc. It does make you wonder what their motives are this time around. Maybe it's as simple as "we recommend using Edge to access Office 365" even on Linux. As long as they still support / don't actively sabotage it for other browsers, that isn't a terrible motive. Not that I would choose to use any of it.

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I don't know the complexities involved, but it seems to me that GIMP handled multiple windows for the last 25 years or so?

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Never heard it called ampersat before, but I guess someone decided that "ampers" as a prefix for & also works for @.

Edit: looks like atpersat would be more fitting:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of-ampersand [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestFor me as a programmer, being forced to work from home has allowed me to be more productive thanks to the lack of noise and distractions

You must not be married. :-p

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNow to wait 10 years for bpytop to be packaged for enterprise Linux so I can use it. :)

Looks like it's already in the EPEL8 repo? And plenty of others, depending on how you define "packaged for enterprise".

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Quoting: fleskAurora: The Lost Medallion - a point and click adventure, which seems interesting, but I didn't achieve much before I got stuck. I wish there'd been a button to highlight hotspots, as I'm pretty sure I've missed something.

Steam says I played that demo in June 2019 for 55 minutes, with 18/25 achievements. I seem to recall finishing the demo, so it must not have been too complicated?

Quoting: fleskI also downloaded the demo for Backbone, which I backed on Kickstarter, but I haven't played it yet.

If that's the same as the Prologue, I played that for 45 minutes in May. I ran into some bug related to entering the bar, that prevented me from continuing.

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Isn't this like the third month in a row that they give all 12 games? It's like they know their lineup is a bit weak. Still, worth it to me just for Tropico 6.

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Quoting: CalinouTranslating to Direct3D is often done to workaround issues with poor OpenGL drivers on Windows (typically on old graphics cards, especially from AMD and Intel).

One thing M$ did right is extensive DirectX tests for WHQL drivers. That means that graphics drivers you get from Windows Update generally have somewhat stable DirectX support, but OpenGL support may be poor to nonexistent.

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Quoting: Liam Daweid software don't support Linux, never have. You must be confusing them with something else. They previously released some unsupported binaries for old titles many years ago, plus some open source engines but they've never supported Linux proper.

True enough... I've got a Quake3 metal box around here somewhere, but that wasn't from iD, it was from Loki.

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxI can see the value for Microsoft to have their own browser even on Linux. Whenever there is a problem, they can just refer to trying their browser and verify if things work there.

I have used Google Apps much more than Office 365, and have encountered lots of minor issues using any browsers other than Chrome. Including Chromium based ones, so even though everyone should be following established web standards the reality appears to be different :grin:. In a perfect world though everything should work just fine in any browser :dizzy:

The problem is that Google intentionally hinders other browsers; for example, YouTube is using deprecated HTML which other browsers don't support, just to make the experience there slightly worse on browsers other than Chrome. I wouldn't trust Microsoft not to start doing the same for Edge.

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