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Oh come on. I can see the reason, but the argument could just as well have been "ditch the double work on Vortex, focus on the crossplatform". With Steam MAchine on the horizon, this would have been forward thinking.

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I've added the Steam Snap path into the guide now, thanks.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: jurquizoFirst of all, great guide. I tried following the steam method and I couldn't find the folder of the Steam installation folder to change the shortcut, I think it is because I installed Steam via snap and I can't find similar paths inside the .snap folder. Could you help me?

Ah, that's an interesting one. Snap is a whole different can of worms.

Could you try looking in: ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps

See if the compatdata folder is there? Once we find the correct path, I'll add it to the guide.

Thanks for the quick reply. The folder compatdata is in ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps, and there are a two folders with random numbers as names with the same created/modified date. In my case it was easy to find the correct because there were only 2 candidate folders. I made a simple script with help of ChatGpt to check all folders of the current folder for the path pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net in case it can be of any use to someone:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

TARGET='pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net'

# Search exact path inside sub directories
found_paths=$(find . -type d -path "*/$TARGET" 2>/dev/null)

if [ -n "$found_paths" ]; then
  echo "✅ Found:"
  echo "$found_paths"
  exit 0
else
  echo "❌ '$TARGET' not found in any sub directory."
  exit 1
fi

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Not pi number😅

Good riddance on the clown reaction

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Quoting: MrBelles... or that trees regrow.

Wait what.. really?!? 🔥

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Quoting: LoudTechieYou run MS365 through Wine.
That's how one recognizes a master of their craft.

It is fairly easy with Crossover. Crossover installs an older version of Office 365, applies some registry edits so the app runs and installs fonts. Then you log in with your MS account and register the product. If you have no license or choose to not sign in, a 5 day free trial starts.

The installed version of Office is made sometime in 2022 for Windows 7 and is 32 bit. It doesn't receive updates.

Using vanilla wine will not work, Crossover's wine has patches related to Office's licensing that vanilla wine lacks, so the app doesn't work on vanilla wine.

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Love to see some character development

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Quoting: CaldathrasI wonder, is this the first example of a commercial flatpak?

(I don't do flatpak, so I don't know...)

Official Minecraft launcher also has a flatpak

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This looks cool but I need it on Steam for my convenience 🙈

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Instructions unclear, Tuvix sent as a peace offering to the Borg.

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Um. Liam. This title. Come on.

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Quoting: Mountain Manseason three of Picard was enjoyable since it's essentially DLC for The Next Generation

Seems fitting! Any TNG fans who haven't seen it are missing out.

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Happy Fedora User since well over 20 years now. It's a distribution that is not often mentioned like some off the other distributions, but it is worth a look. I have to disagree that NVIDIA user should avoid it. If you're using Linux since a month, you're installing the drivers quite fast from RPMFusion. But I really like the "opt-in" in Fedora to make it an active decision to choose it, instead of being one day suprised. It's really not much more than adding a repo and using the installer.

NVIDIA driver had been problematic with wayland, so even as a fanboy I switched to AMD GPU and its running amazingly well. Especially with modern games and being performant as well.

That Fedora was took over by IBM and their policy with AI is worring me a bit that things might chance. But the team does have a great bargain collected over the years, so'll I keep trust in their work... and still being on guard.

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Can't decide if the trailer voice is bad AI, or someone who barely knows English...

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the mystical world of Cincinnati

🤣

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Quoting: Liam DaweI see their use of generative AI as vastly more ethical than most other uses. They hired and paid people for the voices used.

If voice actors are (knowingly) paid to train a text-to-speech generator, rather than say a specific set of lines, is that really so bad? If it happened prior to all this nonsensical "AI" hype, would anyone bat an eye?

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Being both adorable, and a treating Linux users well out-of-the-gate? I don't care how Hytale is to play, it deserves kudos!🥰

I instantly bought it after reading this with some rather luckily leftover spending money.

I'm a bit sheepish; I hadn't even heard of it before seeing a video about its troubled start last week.

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I like DS9 for the most part. Sisko is a badass, even if I completely disagree with some of his actions against the Maquis and Michael Eddington. How he gets the Romulans to enter the Dominion War is next level.

Voyager is good, but has its meh moments. I feel like we could've had a few more episodes in season 7 too.

Even TNG has its meh moments and Miles O'Brien should've been in First Contact with Worf. They had Reginald Barclay. So not also having O'Brien was lame.

Enterprise could've been better, but it's fine. The whole Xindi thing was kinda stupid though. lol

While TOS is pretty hokey, it's good for the most part.

I haven't watched Picard yet and I don't know when I'll get to it. Star Trek has been a shell of its former self for a while. Paramount pissed me off with the product placement in the reboot movie and them also going against Roddenberry's vision too much with stuff as well. Section 31 was probably a necessary evil from DS9 onward, but they've really done a number on Star Trek since the reboot movies. That's not including CBS/Paramount sucking the Orange Moron off either.

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Quoting: fenglengshunA lot of it seems great. Hopefully, this does mean Steam moving to Wayland and 64bit this year to be possible.

Where comes this idea from that Steam's 32-bitness & X11ness are tied to Proton? I mean it absolutely makes no sense because then we'd be stuck with X11 & 32-bit forever. The system itself would not be able to run deprecated software like Steam.

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You have to be careful around mysterious holes. lol

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The power of significant others knows no bounds when it comes to influencing decision making. XD

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You had me right until the end. I dislike hunting for clues on web pages and social feeds, I like games isolated. It does look promising though.

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My beard is like how Comandante's was. My old Latino co-workers back in the day would joke about it when it gets long like it's gotten again.

I usually intend on shaving and do a few times, but then it gets too far gone and I just say fuck it and let it keep growing. lol

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Quoting: fenglengshunA lot of it seems great. Hopefully, this does mean Steam moving to Wayland and 64bit this year to be possible. But even outside of that, there are some pain points like windowing, IME, and Bluetooth that this addresses - as well as touching up on the behaviour of things like ODBC and other Windows dependencies that was an issue for me when I once tried to run local official tax apps and MS365.

At the same time, I'm not going to expect this to magically fix everything. I've had too many times when I think "everything should be fixed now!" and then you still have a dozen different issues. But, I am hopeful that things are maturing even further in a year or two.

You run MS365 through Wine.
That's how one recognizes a master of their craft.
Also on the category of MS365 everything is certainly not fixed.
Did you know it's thoroughly borked in the sense: doesn't start in winedb.
I noticed that launcher bypassed versions tend to at least start, but that's it.

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A lot of it seems great. Hopefully, this does mean Steam moving to Wayland and 64bit this year to be possible. But even outside of that, there are some pain points like windowing, IME, and Bluetooth that this addresses - as well as touching up on the behaviour of things like ODBC and other Windows dependencies that was an issue for me when I once tried to run local official tax apps and MS365.

At the same time, I'm not going to expect this to magically fix everything. I've had too many times when I think "everything should be fixed now!" and then you still have a dozen different issues. But, I am hopeful that things are maturing even further in a year or two.

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Quoting: haobiantaiThe attitude from Linux old-heads and their gatekeeping desire that new users "learn the ropes" is incredibly cringe.

I'm neither sure what you're complaining about here, nor how we should change it!?

What's wrong with Bazzite, or Mint, or Ubuntu? Who's doing the hand-waving you mention, in this article/thread? What would you suggest for newcomers to Linux?

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Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

Not the responsibility of the government, rather the responsibility of the judicial system.

The judicial system is a branch of government.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level.

I'm sorry, that's nonsense. A good deal of what government is all about has always been regulating unethical behaviour, in the interests of the community, because unethical behaviour damages the common good, and promoting the common good is what government is for. We're just so used to certain kinds of laws around ethical behaviour that we forget that's what they are. So for instance, laws against fraud are laws about ethical behaviour. Contract laws are laws about ethical behaviour. Arguably practically every law . . . murder, rape, theft, on and on . . . is a law about ethical behaviour. One could argue that laws about traffic aren't about ethics . . . but in a way even they are if you think the laws are rules to try to keep drivers and pedestrians safe, violating them makes people less safe, and making people less safe is an unethical thing to do.

In any case, where exactly has decades of whinging about the "nanny state" and getting rid of it wherever possible brought the United States? The US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

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Congrats! Winewayland got pretty good.

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Quoting: sarmadWhile I agree there is a lot of immorality in AI, avoiding it just puts you at a disadvantage since everyone is using it.

That does not follow. For one thing, lots of potential buyers don't like AI, so if you don't avoid it, you may lose sales. For another, many applications of AI don't actually give advantage in the end, even if it seems like they ought to. Just because something is unethical does not necessarily mean that it is the best self-interested play. Lots of things are both unethical and stupid things to do.

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