As of yesterday I am no longer an Intel user. My laptop broke beyond repair and my new laptop has an AMD processor. I've been using an AMD-based desktop for a few years already.

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What I'm curious about is to see when the Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors start showing up in the survey.

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I'm waiting for the reactions of the homophobes when they play a game made for the Kitsune fantasy console and then find out where it came from.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI used Mint years ago before switching to Ubuntu. Funnily enough the only reason for me doing that was that I had new hardware back then not yet supported by Mint, but Ubuntu did. I am thinking of going back to it, as I am tired of surgically removing an increasing number of snaps with every new release. I really don't like snap.

Not sure I want to use Cinnamon again though, despite its their main selling point. In the meantime, KDE really grew on me, so I guess I need to find it how well Mint supports it...

Mint doesn't officially support KDE: they only offer Cinnamon, Mate, and XFCE.

It's possible to install KDE on Mint, since Plasma and a bunch of other KDE packages are in the Ubuntu repository, and you could add them from Kubuntu's PPA if you want something more up-to-date. But that's going to be a lot more of a hassle than installing a distro that comes with KDE out of the box.

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This description reminds me of Kirby Tilt and Tumble or Mario Pinball Land. I like it!

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I wonder if the operating-system count for Steam wishlists that the developer cites is accurate? I tend to wishlist games from my browser, and buy them through the actual Steam client. Hence, my Linux usage is counted in purchases, but is it counted when I just wishlist a game?

I've been a happy backer of many Kickstarter campaigns for books, comics, tabletop games, film, music, and live theater. But I categorically refuse to pay for crowdfunding or early access video games, because it seems way too risky. I also don't go through video games very quickly and have a massive backlog, so having fewer games to choose from is not a problem for me.

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Okay, so "intellectual property" can't be inherited. Great, that means everything can enter the public domain the moment the original author dies, and not this ridiculous "70 years after they die" nonsense, right?

Hold on, I'm being told that publishers say the rules don't apply to them.

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NPCKC (developer of A Petshop After Dark, A Hero and a Garden, A Tavern for Tea, and A Year of Springs), is making a game in GB Studio that's near release, and she's going to package it as a native Linux game in addition to selling physical Gameboy cartridges. I'm really excited about it because I like her other games. Here's the Steam page [External Link].

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Anti-cheat can get a lot worse. If you want to see how, take a look at Android.

A lot of Android games don't bother directly detecting cheating: instead they just try to detect rooting. If you have root access, they assume you're cheating. If you don't, they assume you're not cheating. Worse still, it isn't just multiplayer games that use "anti-cheat:" publishers of single player games with in-app-purchases don't want you to cheat, because then you are less likely to buy in-game stuff with real money.

It may just be a matter of time before a big PC game publisher decides the solution to cheating is to require you to be in "S Mode" (i.e. only have software from the Microsoft Store). That wouldn't just mean the end of WINE: It would mean the end of Steam and all other stores as distribution platforms for AAA games.

I really hope I'm wrong.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47I wonder if they will also release this game for iOS/Android or HTML/WebGL.

And the answer turned out to be "no, they did not release the game at all."

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