Chewy @ Chewy7324 @discuss.tchncs.de

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Iirc they did make changes to the engine, which would have required paying an external developer to port it again. It's sad to see but it's the reality of native games without a Linux dev in-house.

What I'm more angry about is how they didn't make the proton version default, instead they kept the useless offline Linux native port. I've read too many comments thinking Rocket League online doesn't work on Linux.

Timely security updates and late major Android version upgrades aren't exclusive. I don't know whether Nothing phones receive monthly security updates, but many other big manufacturers don't either.

hellotux.com sells Linux T-Shirts/Hoodies and donates to the projects.

From your purchase we support free software, usually $3-5 from each product sold. But not everybody can accept money due to legal reasons, in this case, we give free shirts to developers.

https://www.hellotux.com/aboutus.php

No, the Linux filesystem is usually mounted as Z: in wine. Sandboxing through e.g. flatpak/bubblewrap with permissions set to only allow access to ~/Games should protect from many viruses.

The movie-web addon needs quite a bit of permissions. [1]

Edit: If it actually needs access to many websites/domains it's better to set the permissions explicitly for each of them like MALSync does. [2]

This add-on needs to:

• Block content on any page
• Access browser tabs
• Access your data for all websites

This add-on may also ask to:

• Access your data for all websites

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movie-web-extension/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mal-sync/

It's less of a problem to link to solutions to a more general problem than specific shows/movies. Copyright holders are more likely to take action if they find their content directly mentioned and linked to.

On Fedora you could do flatpak list --app to look whether Steam is installed as a flatpak. If not it's installed through dnf, but that can be tested by running dnf list installed | grep -i steam. You could also open Fedora Software and I believe in the top right is a button to select where a package should come from. There'd be the option to choose between flatpak or rpm. Another way to test is to open a terminal and type in steam. If Steam opens, it's a rpm, if the command is not available, it's a flatpak (you'd need to use flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam, iirc).

Packaging software is usually not that difficult, especially if it's already packaged in another packaging format. E.g. .deb and .rpm put the same files in similar places, the difference is mainly how It's specified where a file goes. Because Snap and flatpak are providing a sandbox, complex software like Steam can behaves unexpectedly (fixed a few years ago for flatpak).

tl;dr

You're right, it's not worth the effort. Both rpm and flatpak should work flawlessly. If multiple games actually have issues running trying out a different package might help, but I didn't have issues for many years, so you probably won't either.

Yes, they're quite established and I believe there're quite a few contributors who do like those names. At the time they were branded Atomic Workstation the user base was quite small, as it was more of an experimental release (compared to systems running atomic flawlessly for years now).

Finally there's a general name for immutable Fedora. Creating a new name for each desktop variant is terrible because it's bot obvious what desktop it's actually using. Fedora Sway/Budgie Atomic is clear and concise. Sadly we're still stuck with Silverblue and Kinoite (which are good names, just not consistent).

And Blizzard/Microsoft just laid off most of their esports-related employees. Including those who just presented OWCS.

https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-esports-layoffs/

I'm impressed how well wine-wayland already works. Some games still have issues with mouse locking, at least Overwatch doesn't register the at all. But as they said, bugs will be fixed over time.

So you don't play multiplayer titles? Almost every more or less competitive multiplayer game uses kernel-level EAC or BattleEye. At least on Linux they only run in userspace, if the dev allows it.

But I agree, no proprietary program gets root access on my system (except drivers, firmware and the like, I need a functional system).

Being able to create create calendar events from dates in emails benefits from being a single app. Also contacts integration is necessary to auto fill email adresses. It'd be great to have seamless integration between mutliple apps, but with Thunderbird having tabs it's also a good experience.

I believe Thunderbird supports IRC and matrix, but I don't use those features. Standalone apps usually provide a better experience.

Hopefully notes is compatible with other notes systems, maybe markdown with a folder structure. This'd compatible with Markor on Android and also many (diy) solutions (e.g. vim).

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018769

WARNING: Using '--repair' can further damage a filesystem instead of helping if it can't fix your particular issue.

Edit:

It is extremely important that you ensure a backup has been created before invoking '--repair'.

Thunderbird is already more than a mail program. It supports calendar, todo, contacts, multiple chat protocols etc. Notes are in line with features like todo I'd say

I've added a keybind for deleting history, but it'd be great to have a way to specify short lived clipboard entries. But this might also be one of those standards that no one implements.

A agree with everything you just wrote. Discord is the platform of choice for many projects because most people are already there, so it increases engagement (and often enough some people actually ask for an official discord).

I personally prefer projects to use matrix, despite all it's faults. Some already do.

Wayland only keeps the clipboard until the application exits. This means a clipboard manager is basically a requirement. Iirc desktop environments might solve those issues by default, but on a standalone compositor just add a clipboard manager and enjoy the history.

Discord is better than IRC in any way except available clients, while also doing voice/video chat rooms so it replaced Teamspeak/Mumble. With the additional (at first) paid streamers and being free it took off especially with younger audiences. I remember how terrible Skype was and Discord just worked.

It's possible to allow anyone to edit a Github wiki. But I'm not sure whether edit permission can be set per page or wiki wide.