So.. finished it today. The game is fully voiced in English, and while the visuals are a mixed bag and it's got its share of poo and fart jokes, I found the puzzles to be nothing less than great. Do give the demo a try if you're into point and click!

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Quoting: redneckdrowHere's looking at you, GNOME devs, I'm still sore about you relegating desktop icons to a blasted extension! What's the point of an empty desktop?

My computing background is part-Mac (10.3 was where I learned my *nix basics), so I really like an empty desktop. But Xfce lets me have that with a simple toggle - it should never be missing from the desktop-environment entirely, because I know that weirdies like me are a tiny minority!

I do like the desktop metaphor. Having a computer desktop that's not able to hold some files is like having a table desktop that's not able to hold my pencil and some papers. (My humble, of course.)

Then of course, both the computer and the table desktop tend to hold more than some things while time goes by... And in my observation, people having a mess on the computer desktop are the same that have a mess on their real one. :D

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Quoting: pbThat reminds of that one time when I wrote a little script for myself to rename photos based on exif data, and a friend wanted me to share it, so I did, and he used it in a slightly different way and lost a bunch of photos. Sharing is caring, but trust no one.

Have to say here: krename is great!

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Quoting: thelimeydragonI remember a time when almost all emulators were always free\no paywalls just to try and avoid an avenue of being sued.. then around the time app stores came around, people started trying to charge for them again and I guess because most didn't get any attention/problems it just continued.

I wasn't even aware paying for emulators is a thing.

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He, that's funny... I clicked on the link to Steam, and Steam though I'd be in my recommendation list and showed a link to the next entry. :D

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Quoting: CatKillerThat's not a bad approach. I've filled in the gaps for you.

Cool!

Where did you get the missing Steam Deck percentages? Internet Archive didn't yield data for many months...

I guess you added the trend lines manually?

Quoting: CatKiller(I'd previously discussed with Liam dropping the definitely-bad 03/23 from the tracker and he was insistent that the data we get is the data we get, so I've got the dips you removed in for consistency with the tracker data - same as I've done with the Linux/Mac graph previously)

I wasn't sure about that either. On the one hand, it looks like bad data, and we know there's problems with the data, on the other hand, leaving something out feels like cheating. *shrug*

Quoting: CatKillerNote that because this is a record of proportions, if the trend for desktop Linux were completely flat (it's not - it has a positive gradient) it wouldn't mean that desktop Linux usage wasn't growing, only that it's growing at the same rate as Steam as a whole. Since the trend is slightly positive, it means that desktop Linux usage is growing slightly faster than Steam as a whole.

I'd say, percentage-wise nothing has happened for over two years, but as you're pointing out, Steam is probably growing, so yes, desktop Linux usage is at least growing along. Good point.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI really wonder what's going on. As far as I know there hasn't been some major manufacturer suddenly marketing a big line of Linux computers, or anything. And as Tuxee said, I don't think it's the Steam Deck because I doubt most people browse the web with their deck.

I don't know how large this group is, but software development is moving towards Linux. I'm in a conservative company in a conservative corner, and even here we got people having got rid of Windows.

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Last month, I've been engaged in an argument about how to properly show what's happening in regards of Linux adoption, and I want to present a different view on it that IMHO gives a better feeling for what is happening (and what is not happening).

I have been using the HoloOS percentage of the Linux-filtered results to calculate Steam Desk adoption. (*) I removed three spikes from the overall Linux values (you can see them in the article above), and I didn't have full information about the Linux only results, as "Internet Archive" doesn't have them all.

But here you go...



(*) The GPU might have been even more precise, but the difference is very little (second digit after comma when regarding only Linux values, so it's something like 22.77% vs 22.75%), and unfortunately, the GPU seem to have been renamed in the results at least twice.

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Does anybody have detailed Steam survey data stored somewhere? I wanted to look into the percentages when filtering by Linux only, and the Internet Archive's data is sparse on this one...

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Quoting: scaineBut "Coming Soon" are a bit of a pain when "Soon" turns into literal years. Remember The Last Night?? I only removed that from my wishlist late last year! 6 years! Even the copy-cat game Replaced is still "Coming soon" after 3 years. What a mess.

I'm not sure the change to disallow free text really gave us more information. (And we sure lost some chuckles.)

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