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Quoting: eggroleWhile pretending to be affiliated somehow is shady, I find it amusing that FOSS (built on other FOSS no less) is talking about IP and asking to stop using their logo and name.

I truly fail to see the irony in here?
You can develop FOSS but still have trademarks for Name and Logo?

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It's GOG. What profits?

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Quoting: eggroleAs everyone has said, I see no issue with the 30% cut, but I think the more important part, that has a bit of merit IMHO, is the off-platform competition restriction. If my game is for sale on steam for $50, why can't I sell it direct on my website (or any other platform for that matter) for $40?

This *feels* very anti-competitive, but what do I know.

This part is true, I can agree on that.

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Very exciting. XFCE is THE formative Linux DE in my personal experience having run Xubuntu for a many years, and I only began using KDE then GNOME on my high end rig when Wayland became too important for gaming etc. I still use XFCE on my spare laptop. Looking forward to XFCE staying relevant.

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Won't someone think of the profits!?

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Let's not forget that that job posting for a Senior Software Engineer included the requirement "Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption."

Use of AI Tools was listed as mandatory, whereas familiarity with CI/CD was only a "plus."

There have been a lot of complaints levelled at gog.com over the years and I've always felt compelled to defend them. I'm feeling an awful lot less likely to do so lately, though.

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As everyone has said, I see no issue with the 30% cut, but I think the more important part, that has a bit of merit IMHO, is the off-platform competition restriction. If my game is for sale on steam for $50, why can't I sell it direct on my website (or any other platform for that matter) for $40?

This *feels* very anti-competitive, but what do I know.

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XFCE would probably be my second choice after KDE. I really like its super lightweight and functional focus.

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I feel like I would rather see some stylish text on a solid color background as a sale banner than AI slop.

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GOG has a new owner and they've been panhandling people for this Patrons program. Sadly, that money isn't going to artists.

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While pretending to be affiliated somehow is shady, I find it amusing that FOSS (built on other FOSS no less) is talking about IP and asking to stop using their logo and name.

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Quoting: drenI love GOG because I can actually buy and own games, but they are still a corporation and corporate track records are pretty shitty these days.

You don't ever own games, neither on GOG, Steam, Epic or physical disk. You only buy the licence to use them. GOGs offline installers might give you the illusion of ownership, but you can more or less achieve the same thing by backing up your Steam common folder.

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It's definitely not the first adventure game where you can "possess the living" as a ghost, but I don't particularly mind. Looking forward to some inventive and interesting puzzles.

Quoting: TevurOh my...
"Shadow of the Tumblr Nose"

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the red nose epidemic. Distracting at best.

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Quoting: amataiShouldn't we call it WFCE then ?

No, because the X in Xfce doesn't stand for X11. Or anything else. It's just a name that looks a lot like an acronym, for historical reasons.

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Madrid isn't a city usually depicted in games, and lately Spanish studios are chucking a fair amount of point & click adventures of decent quality. It's on my wishlist 😊

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Quoting: WalebausI think they might have a third party involved and neither Bazzite team or GPD realize that. They probably have someone pretending to be a Bazzite developer scamming GPD out of a device for themselves or to sell on eBay.

This was exactly my thought while reading this news

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the wayland future is really coming along nicely. Cinnamon is getting there, xfce will be there soon, cosmic/gome/kde are already there. Yes!

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Oh my...
"Shadow of the Tumblr Nose"

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This looks amazing!

but ... has a bunch of red flags. Kickstarter being the biggest. I have been following the Pilet device for forever now as well ( https://soulscircuit.com/pilet ) but it seems to be stuck in kickstarter hell as the website still says "in development" and not released, but the kickstarter says it was to be delivered 7 months ago. So who knows.

Basically this Meceha device LOOKS amazing, but will be a wait-and-see ... Thanks for the recommendation!

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Shouldn't we call it WFCE then ?

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Quoting: SzkodnixOkay, now for real: that's a great change. Finally XFCE will start to catch up.

Switching WM in Xfce is fairly easy, but it is interesting how LXQt got Wayland support before Xfce.

That's because lxqt is using labwc as its WM. So could Xfce; but apparently wlroots being written in C disqualifies it.

If this announcement contained some specifics as to what the Xfce devs find lacking in wlroots, and how they aim to remedy that, I think I would've been more enthusiastic. E.g. bare wlroots/labwc (as opposed to sway that comes with its own IPC interface) is still waiting on various wayland extensions to gain important features -- such as exposing to the user which window goes in which virtual desktop (?!).

'Wayland support' isn't a magical on/off switch. Various components of the Xfce environment already got 'wayland support' by virtue of the GTK3 port several years ago. The panel became usable on wlroots compositors as of 4.20, albeit with missing plugins -- most notably the virtual desktop pager, due to the missing extension I was talking about above.

If Xfce devs were to adopt labwc or wayfire are their WM, and then contribute to wayland protocols development to bring those WMs to feature parity with xfwm, they would've benefitted a wider array of desktop environments. Apparently that's an unreasonable ask.

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Damn I knew I should have bought more popcorn this weekend

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"(formerly Minetest)"

"The knights who all too recently said 'Ni'!"

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Great news! XFCE is my favorite DE.

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There is not escaping minecraft, it's all the kids talk about. That and the cursed roblox.

Thanks to Launti and the Voxelibre team, my kid can get his minecraft fix without any interactions with microsoft.

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Or maybe this is all misinterpretation? It could be official as in "gpd officially supports it", not the other way around. "The bazzite team" could be a team inside gpd that is working to make bazzite work.

I don't know, haven't checked, and am not interested in gpd. Just saying, don't jump to conclusions.

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It's not surprising at all - I think they might have a third party involved and neither Bazzite team or GPD realize that. They probably have someone pretending to be a Bazzite developer scamming GPD out of a device for themselves or to sell on eBay. This is nothing new and quite common with YouTubers to have scammers pretending to be someone else to get free stuff.

Here's an example of one such situation that has a good ending: https://youtube.com/watch?v=asq0ubkgjHc

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The situation is getting weirder by the day

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Luanti is great 👍

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Quoting: SzkodnixOkay, now for real: that's a great change. Finally XFCE will start to catch up.

Switching WM in Xfce is fairly easy, but it is interesting how LXQt got Wayland support before Xfce.

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