Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: legluondunetDevelopers don't want Linux users to play his game, just don't play his game and advertise it.
His game is not important, we have today enough games to play on Linux for more that a human life.

That's true for us in the older crowd, but for the younger set games like this are a big deal, and it'd certainly be good if they can play them on the OS of choice used by the older crowd in their lives. :wink:

Roblox specifically is exploitive of children. I will not let my children touch this game for any reason. Plenty of other games they can play.

If you haven't seen this video on the subject, and you have children, you need to see this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ [External Link]

Plus the follow up, which is quite damning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY [External Link]

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: mtI immediately switched from Nobara (which is Fedora based anyway) to Fedora 38 Sway and it is just so frogging great.

Why did you switch from Nobara to Fedora?

I gave Nobara a genuine try, too, and while I like the ideas behind it, three things were dealbreakers:

1. Certain GNOME extensions could not be uninstalled without breaking the system, and these extensions caused serious performance regressions.

2. The bus factor is too low for my comfort. Which also leads to proper distro support being almost non-existent versus Fedora.

3. There wasn't a real compelling reason to stay on Nobara versus vanilla Fedora Workstation after getting past the "this is neat" factor.

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Fedora has the very best GNOME implementation of all, and I will defend that argument to my grave.

Also Fedora is my current daily driver. Just upgraded from 37 to 38 today, and I barely notice a difference other than the version number. To me that's a win.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I don't see how, technically, it would be possible for Flatpak to even be able to tell if the software being packaged was CLI software. I suppose it would feel weird and backwards to use a GUI to install CLI software, but I don't get how they could make that not work.

If Flatpak supports CLI software, that would be welcome news to me.

I don't have a technical answer why it couldn't.

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Quoting: constWhen discussing about these kind of things it's always the same vision Canonical doesn't share: Linux should develop into a platform, so it's *possible* to create software that will install and run on any Linux distribution if you know how to. But once again, no, Canonical works in the opposing direction. Śo, they don't want to support flathub? Fine, then don't add the repo, but the flatpak base software stack should be included on every desktop linux distro by default, there is no good argument against it.

The one argument I have for Snap over Flatpak is that Snap works for CLI software and system software. As of now, Flatpak is only Userland and GUI-based software.

That's as far as I'm going to defend Snap though. There's a LOT about it I do not like, and I actively avoid using Snaps whenever possible.

Canonical is drawing a line in the sand, and they have their reasons. That's their choice, and it's our choice whether we agree with it or not.

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Now before people lose their cool over this, lets look at it from Canonical's perspective:

Canonical need to support their LTS versions of Ubuntu and the different flavors. That *includes* everything offered in the Snap store, since Snaps and the Snap store are officially supported.

Flatpaks are *not* officially supported, because Canonical doesn't run Flathub.

Flatpaks are not going away, they just aren't going to be officially supported (Use at your own risk sort of thing). Which is fine.

Ubuntu forks/spinoffs like Mint and Pop_OS will currently continue to support Flatpaks out of the box.

The flip side of the argument is that, if you don't want to be wrapped up in the Snap ecosystem, then Ubuntu and its flavors probably isn't going to be your Linux distro of choice anymore. Fortunately the Linux (and Ubuntu-based) ecosystem is rather large, and Ubuntu forks/spinoffs like Pop_OS and Mint are still a thing.

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What specifically separates Horde Games from the more traditional Twin Stick Shooter?

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Quoting: undeadbydawn

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWhat specifically is wrong with its controller support?

There not being any.
it claims controllers can be enabled via Big Picture, which doesn't work

What are you talking about? I use a controller on No Mans Sky (via Proton) without issue.

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I'm disappointed that a Linux port is not a guaranteed thing, given Yacht Club Games' history of supporting Linux as a platform. However I do appreciate their justification, and that they are willing to fully support it if they make their funding goal.

Regardless though, they will have my money. Link's Awakening style games were always my favorite.

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I wonder if elementaryOS and their App Center helped pave the way for this.

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