@ronnoc The problem is basically that in some countries at least here in the Nordics, you often have to use a "BankID" application to verify your identity to use various services. It is an electronic identification app that has been adopted by various government, health and financial services.

So for example to pay bills, even though on my computer I would still need to use the app on the mobile for identification. And that is the problem, because it is only supported on Android and iOS. And the security measures of the app require some core google and location services running on the phone for it to work.

So that is my complaint about it, the functionality of the app itself should be secure/safe. But what I don't like is needing to have any Google services on the phone snooping around :tongue:

Btw I use MAPS.ME as an alternative to google maps

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It is not easy to completely avoid Google/Apple on mobile phones.

In the EU, the best I have achieved so far is using lineonageOS+gapps pico on android phones. But I still don't think that is good enough, the main problem is the financial apps like BankID. I feel like it is a serious privacy issue that you practically can't pay bills or taxes without an Android or iOS phone.

To me the PinePhone is very interesting for experimenting with things, I would buy one if they had a version with dual-sim slots, or even better I would like quad sim slots myself :tongue:

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Pretty good selection this month, worth to me for Yakuza Kiwami 2, Darksiders III and Imperator. The choices have been kinda weak in the past few months, with many of the games already featured in other bundles or heavily discounted before.

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Quoting: JVargasIs there any difference between CrossOver and normal wine?
Any reason on why paying for the product?
I can't see anything in their website...

Crossover has a pretty user-friendly GUI. You can in Crossover for example with just a click create an installable rpm or deb package of a bottle, that is what I have used it for mostly.

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The new upcoming AMD products look good, but as I'm already on "modern" hardware (Threadripper+Navi), I would only consider upgrading if there is a feature I really want. In my case that would be:

- DTX form factor motherboards with 2x PCI-E slots
- MATX/DTX mtherboards with 2 or more U.2 connectors
- GPU that is ITX size and very power efficient and/or SRV-IO capable

I don't expect to see any of this, except for maybe an ITX sized GPU. If there is one, it will probably be a region exclusive run again, like what happened with the Vega Nano (US/DE) and 5700 ITX (JPN). Both of those I had to import at inflated prices. I'm currently happy with the 5700 ITX so not really needing an upgrade for now...

But I'm always keeping an eye for quality AMD ITX form factor GPUs because those are few and far between :tongue:

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I like the elementary OS project because they "think different" :tongue:, my ramblings about a couple of things

The Software Manager/Store(!):
There are some great apps made specifically for elementary, perhaps because they provide a direct option to donate/pay in the software manager. The monetization option is controversial, but honestly how many actually go through the effort to even look up a developer of a random application, and then follow through and donate some monies?

Design guidelines:
Strict design language and guidelines is a good thing to have consistent UI experience. The downside is of-course that taking a hard stance is going to break some applications that were not designed for pantheon/elementary. But if you only use applications made for it the experience is great.

I think these elementary design guidelines essentially spurred a healthy discussion amongst GNOME developers. The GNOME desktop was never intended to be skinned, but people obviously did it anyway, also the old icon style was too complicated.

For the record I don't use elementary OS myself on a daily basis, mostly because I dislike the file manager (especially the search feature of it, the only GUI file manager I truly like on Linux (Nemo) does not render/look right in pantheon :tongue:). Also, pantheon has some rendering issues with the Steam client (that may have been solved, have not checked as of late).

But with that said elementary is a distro I follow with big interest and donate to regularly, because I think it is almost a perfect OSX replacement for Apple refugees not wanting to switch to ARM.

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Weird that Unreal Engine does not have decent multiplatform video support in the first place.

Great that the devs managed to fix the plugin :smile:, so that they did not have to resort to some commercial third party solution (RAD Bink for example appears to charge a license fee for each platform... so I can see that it would really eat into profits from Linux and Mac releases).

I can imagine that it is unexpected issues like these that make developers give up on releasing on Linux.

Anyway planning to support them with a day 1 purchase :happy:

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxI believe the main purpose of this browser is to ensure that the Office 365 suite has a browser they can test against, and guarantee the service works with. Large enterprise customers demand solutions that are cross-platform as they have often mixed environments. So the browser could perhaps be a good thing, maybe a sign of Microsoft moving towards providing platform agnostic services/software rather than forcing Windows down everyone's throats :tongue:

office 365 works without any problems with firefox on linux... we have it at work and i didn't have any problems yet (ok, i still use thunderbird and libreoffice most of the time)...

but maybe they intend to add additional stuff which then only will work with their browser but they don't want to anger the linux business users; they can then just say: "use our browser, it's also available on linux, everything else is rubbish anyway"... that would be the pessimistic outlook...

I have Office 365 at work too and not encountered any major issues on Firefox, except unusually poor performance in some circumstances, not doing anything particularly advanced with Office 365 though. I bet there are edge cases considering the monstrous Excel and Word documents some people produce. From a support perspective, I 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:

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I believe the main purpose of this browser is to ensure that the Office 365 suite has a browser they can test against, and guarantee the service works with. Large enterprise customers demand solutions that are cross-platform as they have often mixed environments. So the browser could perhaps be a good thing, maybe a sign of Microsoft moving towards providing platform agnostic services/software rather than forcing Windows down everyone's throats :tongue:

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@dubigrasu it works for me too without spoofing now, wonder if this is a conscious change they made :smile:

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