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Latest Comments by Klaas
Paradox plan announcements next week, like a new game from Cities Skylines dev
1 Mar 2023 at 7:44 pm UTC

The main opportunity with a new Cities Skylines game would be selling all those DLCs again.

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions
27 Feb 2023 at 4:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: CyborgZetaNothing wrong with supporting the people who make, or package, the software I use.
I wonder how they prevent someone from lazily throwing a package together and selling it on flathub while the original authors get nothing. Similar to what happens on Steam, e.g. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/someone-released-the-foss-rts-0-ad-on-steam-without-speaking-to-the-developers/.

Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps
25 Feb 2023 at 8:35 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeNot sure what the immutable filesystem has to do with anything, you are aware you can pretty much do that with any distro at this point?
You are getting worked up over a default setting and say that a comparable default setting doesn't have to do anything with the topic. Seriously?

Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps
24 Feb 2023 at 4:43 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TuxeeWhat utilities are we talking about?
The original argument falls flat even in comparison what Steam OS does that Arch does not – e.g. read-only root file system and preinstalled Steam client. Arch comes without preinstalled flatpak as well.

New Steam Desktop and Steam Deck Beta includes various controller fixes
23 Feb 2023 at 12:29 pm UTC Likes: 1

Fixes for quotes surrounding shortcut exe and paths
Finally

Steam now allows transferring games between PCs and Steam Deck too
18 Feb 2023 at 6:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

I've always wondered why they didn't implement that functionality sooner. They have to pay for the bandwidth – so it should be their priority to avoid duplicate downloads.

iFixit begin offering Steam Deck SSD upgrades
18 Feb 2023 at 6:55 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: KimyrielleI guess it's like back in the olden days when people had to actively decide what games to keep installed. :D
Well… I think having many games installed at the same time actually keeps many people from playing them.

I've bought the 256 GB one since I didn't want to upgrade it at once and it's enough for the moment.

The Force Engine for Star Wars Dark Forces improves Steam Deck & Linux support
17 Feb 2023 at 1:40 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Linuxerwhat exactly do i do with all this?
The first one is probably a precompiled version for Windows.

The other ones are automatically generated (by github) source code packages. They are always there for each tagged release of every project. The sizes has never been indicated since they were introduced – I assume it's because they don't really exist until the link is clicked.

You either have to compile the Linux version yourself following the instructions or wait until someone else does it for you.

Steam had 83,000 new customers every day in 2022
17 Feb 2023 at 11:55 am UTC Likes: 1

When it comes to what's driving people to Steam(…)

it's Dolphin randomly crashing with multiple tabs open. Sorry – had to be done.