They have an option in their own pamac GUI to enable the AUR. IMO if they want to send the message that it will cause issues and it shouldn’t be used, they shouldn’t make it so easy to enable. Or if they do want to make it that easy, display a clear disclaimer about the issues you can expect to run into if you try it.

Welcome to the community! I think you can learn to like the terminal with time :). But more power to you if you can use Linux without ever touching the command line.

I do think the only real way to compete with the windows/mac UX is to never show a command line to someone who doesn’t know what to do with it, and still remain operational. As for now, with most distros, if certain things fail to load you end up looking at a command line (not sure about Ubuntu or ChromeOS).

It’s important to know that, just because your computer booted to a command line doesn’t mean the whole system is hosed. It’s likely just means a UI program failed to start for some reason and otherwise your system is working fine.

I have the same question. I remember a while back Linus went off on someone for using the term “woke communist”, so that probably made the rounds in the trans community. Might be what they’re referring to.

I’d prefer Linux not be tied to the politics of its creator. I don’t expect Linus to be a perfect person any more than I expect Linux to be a perfect OS. But one of those can be fixed with a quick patch.

Let’s be real, D&D is a gateway drug to alcohol. And lots of doritos 🤭.

If you want me to delete my post, I will.

I wish someone had taught my friends and me how to play D&D when I was 10, but my parents were part of the “satanic panic” generation, and had zero interest in anything to do with fantasy or improv. Once you get out of highschool, finding a night that everyone can meet up for D&D gets exponentially harder, let alone finding someone who wants to put in the time to DM.

Do you invent all the words you use to describe things?

Language evolves. Doesn’t mean people are getting less intelligent. But thinking that does make you out of touch.

Just tell her, “I didn’t pick the place, you all did. If you’d like me to leave, I will.”

In Small Soldiers, the whole problem starts when a corporation being lazy and and lacking any regulation puts military grade AI chips in a bunch of children’s toys. In the end, the CEO flies in on a helicopter, writes everyone a check for their silence, and fucks off scot-free.

Myth: 3 people die every year to rabies.

Fact: 4 people die every year to rabies.

Yes, my first thought was Rod Sterling, but also I’ve been corrected on how to say his name my entire life.

I don’t know how accurate this data is, but it would seem NMS and Starfield had a similar number of players in their first month:

• No Man’s Sky
• Starfield

And I expect they were a very similar audience. So I don’t think the bar for what to expect was very different. If anything, the bar should have been much higher for the AAA game.

CMV: if No Man’s Sky’s gameplay was identical to Starfield in 2016, people would have been even more disappointed than they were. The only reason people gave Starfield a pass in 2023 is because we’re so conditioned to being disappointed by Bethesda that fanboys shrugged it off, and everyone else just looked at them weird. I legitimately believe NMS when it first released was a better game than Starfield.

Ah, I didn’t realize there was actually a piece of gnome software literally called “gnome software” lol. Not confusing at all.

Wanted to talk to people about it on the internet. Fuck me, I guess.

Every point you made is either patently false (isn’t up to date, won’t even work with gnome) or doesn’t make any sense (installs the bare minimum, so stuff won’t always work).

The only part we agree on is that arch isn’t for everyone.

“Satan has stopped responding. Would you like to force close?”

Lol it was “fun” two days ago when all the outlets originally wrote about it. Now it just feels like the headline might as well be, “heh, remember how we all laughed at that thing two days ago?”

Doesn’t seem necessary to bring it up again for 6.6.7 any more than it will for 6.7.6 or 7.6.6. I’m not really familiar with the outlet though, maybe they make a headline for every minor patch release.

Man, talk about milking a niche topic for clicks.

Yeah, I was aware of the case, but I’m confused because it does sound like Valve’s policy only explicitly restricts the sale of free keys for less. Obviously, I’m all for Valve being held accountable if they’re actually requiring the game be the same price on a completely different platform.

I don’t think there’s any difference between “justifiable” and “simply because they can”. If they can, then they can. Yeah, I do support developers, but I’d be lying if I said steam doesn’t add any value to my experience. If it wasn’t 30% worth of value, devs wouldn’t choose it. And I’m all for EGS undercutting them to attract developers, I think that’s the right way to combat it.

If there is any regulation that needs to happen to combat monopolies, then I think it’s the same regulation that needs to happen on all content distribution and streaming platforms, which is: there should be a standard API for accessing content in a cross-platform way so that open source front-ends can be trivially developed. If steam (or netflix, or spotify, or google, or whatever) has established too much power, it’s because they’ve locked their users into their user experience, and it’s inherently inconvenient to have to switch between different platforms and UIs. But if regulation forced a common API, and open source front-ends were developed, people wouldn’t be locked into a specific user experience. You could switch between EGS or Steam or GOG or whoever, and the only thing that would change are the games that show up in your front-end of choice. IMO that’s the real way to solve it.