That’s nice, right until you have to troubleshoot why the other person is having difficulty following the instructions. My not-entirely-but-still-mostly-strawman scenario (specifically with the RPi Imager) where that approach fails:

Run the application. If it asks for a password and then nothing happens, then you’ll need to use pkexec to launch it with root privileges, run pkexec env $(env) DISPLAY=:1 /path/to/application. The main window will look like a wizard utility with the steps on the left and input fields on the right. Follow the instructions until step 4. Then complete step 4, but DO NOT click “next”. A gear icon should appear.

No, not the gear icon on the top, the large gear icon on the bottom right. It didn’t appear? Okay, go back to step 2 and make sure the “full” option is selected. Now go to step 4 and reenter everything. Still nothing? Send me a screenshot. Okay, the “hostname” field must not contain a hyphen, replace it with an underscore. Wait, which version of the app are you running? Go to the small gear menu, click on “About”, and send me the version number… okay, nevermind, that version doesn’t support this specific feature, you’ll have to update.

I had to have this conversation with myself. Conducting it over an internet forum with a stranger of questionable technical skills is my definition of hell.

This will have dire consequences for the trout population.

It’s easy to build a well-designed language when you don’t have to work around the mistakes of the past that were too difficult to solve then and too deeply entrenched to change now.

They’re indulging in their secret vim addiction they picked up after someone convinced them to try evil-mode.

Can’t wait for the game engine to delete my filesystem and then be really very sorry about it.

If you’re going to act like a petulant child, I’m gonna put you in timeout. Go sit in the corner.

It’s universally considered one of the best episodes of all of Star Trek, up there with The Drumhead and The Measure of a Man. TNG is at its best when it touches contemporary philosophical subjects within the framework of sci-fi and an enlightened human golden age.

If you’re not committed to watching the entire series and don’t mind missing some minor context, you should probably start with season 2. Season 1 (“before the beard”) is an extremely mixed bag, including one hilariously racist episode.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

It’s bang on how the aliens in the TNG episode Darmok communicate. Their spoken language is based entirely on metaphors and historical/cultural references, and meaning is derived from a shared understanding of those memes within the present context.

I don’t see how Steam would make any difference.

• Implementing any kind of DRM is the game developer’s prerogative.
• Allowing other versions is possible, again, at the developer’s convenience.
• No other launcher needed besides Steam (and Steam is very far from being only a launcher)
• Steam Workshop (because fuck Forge)

The only downside I can see is that Steam doesn’t have a way to maintain multiple instances of the same game.

Ah yes, the famous DRM.

Some launchers allow you to play fully offline, but only after you’ve authenticated and started the game at least once with a real Microsoft account. The launcher has a sophisticated validation mechanism to ensure this: a single boolean value stored in a JSON file. Set that to true and you’re good to go.

• Outer Wilds
• SOMA
• Red Dead 2
• Factorio
• Half-Life 2

Honorable mentions:

• Warframe should be the example by which live service games are designed and operated.
• Crimson Desert… is such a paradox of game design. In almost all aspects, 70% of the game is fantastic, but the remaining 30% is a shocking display of incompetence and/or indifference. The exception is player training, which is consistently horrible.

She even recognised some of them.

Those two are mutually exclusive. An application that uses Proton can’t be natively Linux-compatible, and an application that is natively Linux-compatible can’t run using Proton.

natively on a Windows PC or on Linux via Proton

Sounds like it’s a Windows build, but the developers also provide first party support for running it on Proton.

Linux (Proton) Native Compatibility

I had to sit down and drink a glass of anhydrous water after reading that…

It would be the single most active gambling economy.

Try decoding an AV1 stream from Sunshine without hardware acceleration. It takes a much higher compute performance than you apparently believe.

My previous job at a factory with rotating day/night shifts gave me an apparently lifelong case of sleep disorders. My “eight hours of uninterrupted sleep” is more or less indistinguishable from my “one coffee after pulling an all-nighter in Factorio”.

Did it hurt to carve out the fevered flesh? Did it hurt to sever the gangrenous foot? The swines of the industry spent the last decade butchering their own carcass and selling it in pieces, now they’re horrified that they’re bleeding to death.

(I recently replayed Forgor: Hog Machine. Mandus kinda had a point.)