Hello, tone-policing genocide-defender and/or carnist 👋
Instead of being mad about words, maybe you should think about why the words bother you more than the injustice they describe.
Have a day!
Sure. In the same way that ChromeOS and Android are Linux. There are no important distinctions to be made at all. Everything that works on one of them, will work on all of them because they’re just Linux.
/s, because that is obviously not true.
Based on Arch is different from is Arch. Ubuntu isn’t Debian. ChromeOS isn’t Gentoo. They are different things. Don’t oversimplify things to the point of absurdity.
I’m inclined to agree about the performance optimizations between various distros being negligible, but there might still be room for more distros to optimize for compatibility.
The following is highly anecdotal and vibes-based. Please don’t take my vague examples literally:
Between my Steam Deck (SteamOS) and Framework 16 (Bazzite), the Framework is obviously way more powerful, but I have a more flawless experience with some games on the Steam Deck in terms of 100% of the games I launch "just work"ing on there. With Bazzite on my Framework, it feels close to 100%, but every so often, I encounter a new demo or game that is finnicky about launching.
Idk if it’s gamescope, the specialized hardware, or something else doing the heavy lifting for the Steam Deck (it’s probably a mix of things), but I would love to see other Linux distros incorporate the software components to make gaming flawless on generic distros. It’s really close, but I think there’s room for growth to catch up with whatever the Steam Deck is doing.
And this is not me saying “wait for SteamOS to switch to Linux”. You can easily install Steam on any distro and enjoy like 90% of the games on there with no fuss.
Do those one-off bigots that perhaps lended some labor to said games get royalties for the IP? If not, then this comparison is not even close to valid with a billionaire bigot raking in more wealth based on an IP they poisoned.
Yeah. This is useless.
Firefox’s version of MV3 explicitly supports the things that uBlock Origin needs to do. It’s not the same as Google’s malicious MV3 that was targeted at destroying adblockers.
It would be annoying if they removed MV2, but it wouldn’t break things like it did for Chromium.
I’d be happy if they did and adopted Heroic as an official launcher. However, if that happens, I’d still want proper controller support to be added so that browsing the GOG store in Heroic doesn’t require mouse and keyboard bindings on something like a Steam Deck.
Because I use a Steam Deck and having a launcher for third-party stores is the easiest way to install games.
Additionally, the reasons mentioned in the other comments.
Anything but properly supporting the Linux community 🤡
How have they still not learned that the largest intersection of the people that care about their core value proposition (game preservation, DRM-free, etc.) are Linux users?? It’s not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.
If they provided a launcher for Linux users, I’d actually buy shit from them. Yes, Heroic Launcher exists, but I’m not paying GOG for the work that the Heroic dev did. I want first-party support.
You can just write bash scripts in your actions if you want them to be easily replicatable on your local machine, so you don’t really lose anything with that system.
Can someone explain why, and what to use them for?
I’m a (mediocre) Rust dev, and I use GPL licenses for my projects. There’s nothing preventing you from doing so. I think the answer to your question is that it’s largely cultural.
Unfortunately, from trying this myself, I don’t think you can forward port 53 to the Android host, so that won’t work (easily). It seems that privileged ports aren’t allowed to be forwarded.
If this is anything like crostini on ChromeOS, Google’s solution is also virtualized.
I can say with great certainty that the only package format that we don’t need is Snap. AppImages and Flatpaks both have their place, but Snap is just a great way to find yourself wasting time because their shitty fucking sandbox system doesn’t work properly (and also doesn’t sandbox at all if you’re not running AppArmor 🤡).
3 absolutely did. But that said, not all of the original tracks made it into the 1+2 remake, so I wouldn’t base whether or not you buy it on that.
Yes! The three-finger drag + this getting merged into COSMIC recently almost completely covers all of the things I like about macOS.
Sure, but that way of thinking seems to treat trying to avoid supporting bigots as some sort of “purity cult” game, and it’s not. Just because there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, that doesn’t excuse people to make highly unethical purchases.
Of course you can’t perfectly avoid any bigoted shitheads from having worked on something you buy, but you wouldn’t buy a game where the majority of the royalties go to David Duke, would you?
Some people are just doing the best they can to not support bigoted assholes, and when it comes to gaming, a market that exists purely for entertainment, and one that has millions of other options, that’s rather easy and practical to do.