I’m a sailor of the seven seas, so I don’t want any of them, but I wish you and anyone reading this a Merry Christmas!

Why is this so good, and so fitting lol? I’m not a MAGA person but I’d stand behind this interpretation of it, even as a non-American.

I’m curious: How did having to support multiple platforms affect the development process? In what ways did it affect the technologies used or the development process itself, testing and bug fixing? What about bug reports?

On an unrelated note, a lot of people in the reviews say they’d love to see a longer, further developed game based on this idea. Do you have any plans for it?

I don’t want a rolling release if I can avoid it. I don’t want a from-scratch distro where I’m suddenly in trouble because I forgot to install some crucial package that I wouldn’t have had to install on other distros. But I also don’t want a distro that’s forcing all sorts of software on me because that’s what it comes with (this point is about Arch-based distros: something that only ArcoLinux got right). I don’t want to wait to compile COSMIC every time there’s an update. I don’t want to compile from source all the time because that’s what the AUR is. And as powerful as the AUR is, it always feels janky, even with paru or yay.

I don’t want to worry that if I haven’t updated in a few weeks, I might get issues with the archlinux-keyring. You know what I’m talking about if you’ve used Arch long enough.

And after being an Arch Tester for a while and seeing how brittle package testing is (there are barely any testers, and that’s a massive concern), I decided I don’t trust the stability of Arch. So I left.

I don’t tinker anymore. No time.

BUT

I have a very specific setup with COSMIC, Hyprland, and specific apps I use. That’s just my chosen way of using my computer.

If I could get all this properly working on Bazzite, I’d have been there already.

Setting up a WM and installing a ton of software you might need on Bazzite is a long and painful process. The best way seems to be to just create a custom Ublue image, and I’ve been trying to do that and have failed miserably on multiple occasions.

And on top of all that, there are a bunch of useless configurations, like the shell, and whatever they did with ld, breaking my Neovim in the process, which I’d prefer not to have.

While it is very good for a Steam Deck OS, it still has issues like every other distro out there.

It is true. I’d praise Fedora currently. I have praised Arch when I used it. For all the issues I had with its outdated software, I praised Debian for that month I’ve used it. I had praise NixOS’ rollbacks, while sparing the details on the learning curve and immense difficulty of setup and weird, obscure issues I had with it.

Ultimately, every distro without exception has some issues for different people. That’s a fact. It’s all about what you can and cannot live with, what fits and what doesn’t fit your purposes.

I want the latest software after some good testing and on a static release if possible, with all the software available, a fast package manager, and NOT Arch, as I was done with it for various reasons. Got pissed at NixOS, OpenSUSE’s zypper is the worst package manager bar none (because it’s slower than the older dnf, and doesn’t even have parallel downloads, and doesn’t have many mirrors either). So Fedora it is. And I’ll stay here for a while, seeing as there isn’t anything better for me.

And I’ll praise Fedora for what it does right, while casually avoiding the fact that the first thing I did after install was to install and set up dnf5, and not mentioning I had mirror issues twice in the last month (I had none in the months prior, but twice in the span of 2-3 weeks?).

Anyways, that’s just me ranting about Linux distros, because as much as everyone claims they’re the same (and they are when it comes to usage), they are very different when it comes to package managers, package availability, package versions, and release cycles, and those are the main differences between them all.

Same. I was playing one of those addicive clicker games, but finished it in mid-August and have barely had time to play since then. Only other things I’ve played are non-Steam games.

It’s decent, but the right way is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbxAmRnAGUo

Depends on the person really. I’ve been a sailor all my life, and the only times I’ve bought games was when I bought some physical disc games for my ps4, so it really depends on the person.

This is outdated. They have fixed it already, though I’m not sure if it has only been fixed in beta or it is now available in the latest release too.

I don’t play a lot of native games but I quite like 0ad. The only issue I’ve had is I couldn’t quite get into it. I like the idea of it, but it feels a bit too overwhelming, and isn’t exactly my type of game in practice. I quite enjoyed Sauerbraten, though I don’t play shooters that much anymore. The native game I’ve played the most has to be GNOME Mahjongg funnily enough. I also really like Minetest, but I haven’t been able to get into it.

Yes, it removes the spyware. You can call it telemetry if you want.

Just use chris titus’ debloat tool, and don’t bother with sus windows. Link: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

The main use for snaps comes from having controlled updates for packages that can’t be isolated, like the kermel, but surely it would be better to keep such packages as native debs. Personally, I can’t see an advantage for it. In theory, it’s a universal package format, but who cares that it works everywhere when nobody uses it because of the issues it has. And I definitely agree that Docker is better for enterprise server stuff.

It’s actually vwry convenient for developers on ghe server and enterprise side of things, and that’s why they push it so much. The problem is it sucks for users, and it sucks for server admins, last I heard. Even though the slow startup times are not an issue on the servers.

LibreOffice works perfectly for me, and Ofice Online fills any void, but sometimes you just need native Office. It’s a matter of “Is it possible” more than anything else? Just for fun

Wjat about, for example, M$ office? Apparently it could work for older versions, but I really don’t want to pay for it or pirate it.

I was researching that earlier today. While I don’t play Roblox anymore, I would be glad to know I can hop on it if I want to.

With (350GB + 700GB) just over 1 TB of free space between 2 disks, I struggle to see why you would need more, even if you start downloading a bunch of games.

Not just Unknown. How many privacy concious Linux users are there? I bet many of them would prefer to blend in with the crowd and use Windows as their user agent.

Hi. I wanted to take either Amnesia or Meeple Station and none of them worked. I think they’ve all been taken.