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the biggest crime marvel ever commited on themselves was infinitywar/endgame. Not all these movies have to be that big and I think many people miss that.

I had a fun time at the Marvels and Quantumania that year, I came out happy. Did they change my life? No, but I had fun

before this one, I had a Windows 2000 Professional one with the local education department's VL key

I used to work in the gambling industry and there were some absolutely ancient QNX boxes that ran a dialup modem stack for remote TAB offices

Qnx Unix still technically kicking

there's plenty of up to date, feature rich distros on the scale between mint and arch. Fedora or ublue/bazzite are also good options for example

that Futurama DVD commentary is where I learnt that Happy Birthday was Copyrighted

I have a Logitech Mx Master 3 on my home machine, a keychron m6 at work, both can put the wheel into free spinning scroll.

I have a Logitech Ergo MX575 on my couch PC, its a trackball, but its scroll wheel doesn't free spin

they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled

laughs in free wheeling mouse

I still rip blurays, so reading them is go

Every now and then I have a reason to archive something at work, its probably like once a year tho

in my terminal I press ctrl + r and then type the name of the machine

Australia has a small amount of this type of slang, but its usually more offensive than the mother british type

Does input-leap do what you need from Barriers? I control my testing mac at work with input-leap

For the non-Australians, Yank rhymes with Septic Tank, thus seppo

Organise Settings better, put common features front and centre?

Why is finding my IP address so hard on a Windows machine? Its either open settings app and click down 3 layers deep or open a pwsh prompt and either ipconfig or Get-NetIPAddress.

Linux click network applet in most desktop environments. Even MacOS option + click network icon

If you run it in a rootless container, expose it through a reverse proxy and keep it updated there's very little risk

We got married in 2011, moderate sized wedding and reception. What a waste of money. If I'd do it again I'd get married at a registry and then take the family out for dinner. Result would be the same and I'd probably be $20k AUD richer. 🤷

Being married is fine and pretty chill. Weddings are stupid

Windows 11 has better image quality? I'm sorry what?

OEM interoperability/functionality guarantee

The last big game dev holdouts will agree to target Linux if the PC userbase jumps significantly and Valve guarantees a standard expectation with technology with things like rolling kernel, latest libs, steam functionality, etc.

A general image for SteamOS is not going to solve this. If you buy a PC from Dell and install SteamOS on it, there is no difference than if you installed Fedora. Secondly Valve is building from the the same sources as every other distro, if SteamOS supports it, every other distro does. In the cases of things like gamemode and gamescope, you can install these or they come with Bazzite and friends too, because Valve already devs these in the open with community and groups like Collabora.

There’s still a lot of stupidly annoying things that are missing like proper wayland (valve->frog) and its resultant features like HDR, VRR, etc.

Gamescope is open so any distro can use it. Desktop compositors are shipping these features already (SteamOS already uses upstream KDE). Not sure what the problem is

The linux packaging problem from 20 years ago is still a problem (albeit much less) which Torvalds himself mentioned Valve would just say “screw it” and bypass/solve the problem via Steam (which they did). The issue is the remainder. Kernel updates are all over the place depending on distro. Everything Ubuntu is technically out of date because SteamOS uses Arch. Fedora gets you closer at least.

SteamOS uses flatpak, every other distro uses flatpak. Ostree atomic distros (Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. ublue (bazzite and friends) use flatpak. Modern kernels are on every distro, especially Fedora and Arch. Non-existant problem IMHO

It’s really just that OEM guarantee that would get it moving quicker. Although it might not even happen tbh, Valve said they weren’t that interested in competing against Microsoft which makes sense because its still the primary OS of their customer base.

Again, a SteamOS general release is not going to get you any more OEM support than installing any other distro

Why would they do that when the community already does? - nothing valve is doing isnt already in Fedora/ublue or Arch, people who say they are going to switch when Valve puts out a general SteamOS image are just wasting time and procrastinating