Mint team as usual delivering some common sense changes and improvements incrementally to Linux Mint. Great work as usual.

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Ooo. It's real close. And the number of Chinese users hasn't completely come back down either. I think we're gonna sling shot past 2% soon.

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Conan-Kudo: Having this as the default in SDL3 (which isn't being used yet!) is important for signaling to other stakeholders that we actually do need to get solutions in place for detected issues.

Joshua-Ashton: SDL is not your tool for "signaling to stakeholders" about what is important. It's an actual library used by real developers and users!

You are suggesting we do those users and developers a disservice by forcing an fundamentally broken default onto them purely for your own ideological reasons.

It's really important as a developer is to be pragmatic and separate your own desires from what actually benefits your customers/users.

*Stands up and applauds*

HELL YEAH! Thank you Joshua! Perfectly put.

Can we frame that quote from Joshua and put it on a sign that we lift up and show people every time they suggest pushing on users something that's broken for ideological reasons?

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Unfortunately falling on their swords here in this case was probably the best and cheapest option. Not only for Yuzu but for emulation in general. A win for Nintendo would spell bad news for emulators everywhere..

Well, we will always have the source code for Yuzu, and Citra, and the last builds made available. And maybe someone will carry on that work but we'll see if that happens or not.

Thanks Nintendo for your contribution to making gaming worse, again.

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Are there any cloud streaming services that provide access to Roblox? If so, perhaps that should be the recommendation from now on for anyone wanting to play it on Linux.

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Does anyone know what version of CEF they updated to?

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Honestly in my opinion, it doesn't look good for Yuzu, and I wouldn't be surprised if a judge would probably agree with Nintendo's argument that there's basically no use case for Yuzu other than playing games which have encryption on them specifically designed to prevent them from being played on other devices. The fact that it doesn't come out of the box with the ability to play Switch games, because it doesn't come with the decryption keys, will be argued by Nintendo's lawyers, is irrelevant.

It's not like torrent software, where you can cite legitimate totally legal use cases since it's a general purpose tool for file transfer. There pretty much isn't a use case for Yuzu other than playing Nintendo Switch games, which Nintendo will argue is 'illegal' because they have encryption in place to prevent it, which means anyone who bypasses that by any means, is breaking DMCA's rule against circumventing DRM. And reading over the descriptions what exemptions apply to that rule, I don't think Yuzu is covered by it.

Honestly, I don't think it's looking good for Yuzu, and in turn that isn't good for the future of emulators in general. If Nintendo has a slam dunk on this case, it could put all the major game console makers, Sony, Microsoft, etc, in a good position to have a similar case against other emulators that require bypassing any kind of DRM or decrypting game files, in order to emulate games. Which could kill any chance of emulators in the future even being legal. Yikes.

Maybe the Yuzu team's only hope is focusing hard on showcasing the emulator as a way to play homebrew Nintendo Switch games and to experiment with an emulated version of the device for educational purposes.

But it's going to be hard to argue that while, upon visiting the Yuzu website just this second, the first image I saw, was a picture of Super Mario Odyssey.. There's mentions of 'Homebrew' on the website but it's obvious that isn't the use case of the software.

Well, I joined Yuzu's Patreon anyway, I wish them luck, hope they find good lawyers and get lucky, somehow win the case. Yet another reminder to never send Nintendo any money.

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The lack of AMD GPU is not really surprising, pretty much 99% of 'gaming laptops' with dGPUs have an NVIDIA GPU. That's just the way the market is.

Well kudos for Manjaro! Anything which puts "preinstalled Linux on well supported hardware out of the box" in the hands of consumers is a good thing.

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Aside from the ring RGB lighting (which hopefully can be disabled) it sounds like a really interesting device! Probably the nearest I've seen to a proper steam deck competitor in my opinion. Then again I'm just biased because I wouldn't buy a handheld with windows on it. Hopefully the device is well supported. And kudos to Manjaro, winning the honour of first non-steamOS Linux distro to show up on a handheld? Wonder if this thing will be sold in Australia.

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Three surveys in a row with Linux over 1.90%. That's a very good sign. 2% in 2024 seems extremely likely. 2.5% by the end of the year? That would put Linux up where MacOS was not too long ago before it started dropping.

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