I haven't used KDE in years (since the beginning of KDE 4 to be precise), but I'm curious about what it looks like now. Is this version still compatible with X11? I have no interest in wayland, and honestly, I've heard so many bad things about its management I don't really trust it to be future-proof.

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Quoting: neon_soaked_chryssalidI wonder what would happen if they would have the option to choose your OS, and take off the price of Windows for the Linux version? I know OEMs get a major discount, but I think Lenovo does something similar.

Looked a few years ago into that, here in the EU you can get windows refunded if it's preinstalled, most manufacturers have some doc with how to ask for it and how much you'll get. The average was between 15 and 30€. Honestly, not worth the hassle, as they make it as hard as possible to get refunded. Because you know these kinds of laws only say they have to do it, not that it should be easy. I have seen it as low as 5€, but the manufacturer asked for a registered mail, and they cost ... around 5€.

Another example, here in France there is a new law forcing ISP and mobile carriers to have a link to cancel your contract on their website. The law doesn't say it should be easy to find, so most of them have it somewhere on their website, but not on your online dashboard, and none communicated about that new law. For my mobile carrier, it's on the front page at the very bottom. If you don't know where it is good luck to find it and if you don't even know it exists you do it the old-fashioned way via mail (no not e-mail, actual paper).

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Time has changed since some games created new genres. Doom-like? Quake-like? Metroidvania? I guess today they would be called "rip off" "scams" or whatever.

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Quoting: chickenb00I have to wonder what is going to happen when Microsoft gets off their asses and releases a controller-friendly version of Windows, basically something like SteamOS or even just BigPictureMode with quick access to all of the little toggles you normally need via a quick button combo. Suddenly ROG Ally will be much more competitive when you no longer have to dip back to the desktop and play with Control Panel to get things working.

They did in 2001, that's called an xbox :D

Seriously, last gen xbox are controller friendly, game friendly, walled garden friendly windows on a special hardware. And, microsoft has no intention of giving it to any potential competition. They are making enough money out of it and releasing such an OS would mean they will have to work with other manufacturers to make their exclusive OS run on other hardware while retaining the ability to play xbox exclusive games (because let's face the reality that the selling point of xbox os); even as a closed partnership they wouldn't do that.

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I really don't know if I should feel happy that the deck is getting upgraded, showing how well it is doing. Or really angry that it is getting upgraded so soon. I got the "bigger and better" more expensive Deck thinking about the future, thinking the deck won't get any significant upgrade for the next 5 years (like everything else) and if we needed, we could always go to third parties for bigger SSD, batteries etc. And here I am 1 year later looking at this ... that really doesn't sit right with me. And the thing I think I hate the most is the limited edition translucent case. Not that I don't like translucent case, I love them, always loved them since I was a kid. If this was available when the deck first got out, I would have bought it. No, what I hate the most is the "limited edition", I really despise that kind of thing. It's really the first time I'm disappointed at valve.

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I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, it's a great thing. On the other hand, it only shows how Nexus Mod can be a bit unreliable with their softwares. They replaced NMM (Nexus Mod Manger) with Vortex, a thing no one really asked for. And as for as I know, Vortex wasn't as popular as Nexus Mod say. For example, it pushed me out of modding, I never really understood it, and it is cumbersome to use. Now they are throwing Vortex under the bus for a new app? I understand they learn from their mistakes, but I can't decide if it's a good final turn in the right direction, or if in two years we will hear from them telling us they drop Linux or the software all together for something new. Because once again they will have learned from their mistakes.

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Does that mean Wayland is now usable for every one? Is screen sharing/capture a thing now? Has Wayland finally stopped in their stupid way of making everyone recode the wheel and integrated some component in its default package?

edit : How about accessibility? Has there been something done about that?

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Quoting: KimyrielleI wonder why Steam can't just support hardware tokens, like everyone else. I hate using phones as security tokens because they become a single point of failure (and also because I don't trust big business not to lose/abuse my phone number). :S

Yep, phone numbers are a laughable form of security, I don't understand why Valve still believes it's reliable enough not to be replaced by actual 2FA that doesn't require a proprietary application (at least officially).

One extra hoop to jump through, which requires a separate device as a security measure (easily broken if the user syncs their SMS to their computer though), but a very unreliable one.

Come on, Valve.

Maybe because that's the fastest and easiest what to do MFA there is. I don't say SMS is a good factor, but other factors are harder to make people accept them. They had to add a second factor now with as less friction as possible. And a sadly high number of game devs are as computer smart as the average office worker. So, as someone who had to push MFA in an office setup, I understand why they choose SMS first. We may see other factors pop up in the near future.

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Quoting: shorbergCase A:
At one point Windows server had an update with a breaking change which crashed our test machine; we reported to Microsoft, two days later we got a new update reverting the previous update. Business as usual. We were just one company out of the many many companies that run on Microsoft's platforms, yet they immediately gave us a quick-line to their experts and made a revert because breaking applications is not OK.

Being an admin too, I can relate to that. The only thing I can maybe "critic" is that here you are talking about Windows Server. So, I don't know if M reverting to the previous version is due to the company you worked for being huge or the problem being on Windows Server. On the server side, stability is an important thing.

This year, an important software, of a company I used to work for, randomly ceased to work on Windows 10. Fortunately, they produced a patch rapidly. "Something" was changed in Windows 10, and they had to update sone of their code for it.

Both you and I have stories about zombie systems still maintained because something was broken in the Microsoft APIs. So, when I hear Windows API are more stable, I'm a bit sceptic. Particularly when I read people writing things like "I can still run software from Windows 3.x on Windows 10". Yes, they can run some, but the vast majority won't work any more. I think 3.x software started to break around Windows XP era. Even as gamers, how may of our 90s game, can we still start today on Windows 10/11? Not much, same is happening or has already happened with 00s games. And I think I have a couple 2010s games that are starting to act weird.

For me, the only thing we can hold glibc dev accountable for is the poor communication around the depreciation of this function. (proprietary software are not better on that one) But let's take it with a grain of salt because anyone who has been asked to write a doc will tell you no one like to write them and no one want to write them. If the communication was done properly this wouldn't have happened.

On Linux, we are not yet used to run zombie systems. But I feel it will soon come, as there is not only zombie Windows out there. I'll now say monster names that will make some Sysadmins have cold sweat. AS400, Sun Solaris, OS/2, HP-UX, DOS. They are still out there waiting in the shadow for your helpdesk to be the more vulnerable. And then they strike, they have a hiccup making some big company piss their pants because their whole business rely on them.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThat said, next business day on-site support is available from most of the big business brands. Dell, HP and Lenovo for sure. Price and quality of support might differ though. And they don't usually cover anything outside of their business ranges of products.

You can add that for those manufacturers, parts are still made for a really long time, and all the business line from Dell, HP, and Lenovo are easily repaired. Same thing with chargers, I've work with both Dell and Lenovo only businesses, both had that bin full of old charger from their previous laptops so when a charger died, was lost/broken they just needed to fish an old one from the bin, no need to get a new one and even in the event you need one there plenty of third parties because they are so standard.

But for the onsite premium support you have to shell out a pretty big sum of money most of the time, nearly as much as the price of the machine itself.

The big problem is consumer grade brands, they are inconsistent in their design and the warranty is subpar. Most of the time you can't just go buy spare parts. Or have to rely on third parties for that.

What I find surprising is how expensive business line laptops and parts are when they are so standardized and stream lined.

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