Quoting: MiZoG13% in India is huge

That's probably half of all Linux users in the world :D

Kudos to India

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For me MGS went on a downhill path. MGS was the best, then MGS 2, then MGS 3, then MGS 4, and then MGS V which I couldn't even complete. Every release was worse than the one before. With every release the story gets more and more complicated, and the gameplay changes between releases make them sometimes feel like different games rather than a continuation of the same game. MGS 3 gameplay is quite different from MGS, MGS 2 has a different protagonist, while MGS V is open world! It feels like Konami looks out in the market for whatever is currently hot among players and puts it in an MGS game. Compare that to Uncharted and you'll understand what I mean.

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Quoting: hardpenguinLinux desktop needed immutable desktop since forever. To definitively close the issue of system-breaking updates. This could help Linux adoption in the long run.

On Ubuntu the only system breaking updates I've encountered are related to nVidia's proprietary driver. If you are lucky to have an AMD GPU you'll probably not encounter any breakage unless if you tinker with your system.

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Quoting: spayder26Friendly reminder that Snap is not free software due vendor lock-in (its sole package repository is proprietary).

So whatever Canonical decides to do with their base Snap OS is pretty irrelevant for the general linux ecosystem.

Total BS! If that was the truth, you would not be able to download and install Snaps outside of Snap Store, and Rudra (a teenage boy) would not be able to create an alternative store.

Well, maybe BS, but not total BS as there is some truth to what he said. The snap tech itself is open source, but by default it's tied to a proprietary backend. So, while the tech itself is open source, it has no use without the proprietary backend, which is why people don't view it as truly open source. However, technically anyone can build his own backend and then fork snap to support his new backend, which is exactly what Rudra did, but his backend is not usable on a default Ubuntu installation, and is probably impossible to use on Ubuntu Core. In order to use his backend you'll need to install his forked version of snap.

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Quoting: rcritSounds similar to Fedora Silverblue.

The concept is similar, but the implementation is different. Silverblue depends on ostree to implement atomic updates while still depending on RPM. Ubuntu Core does it differently: it breaks down the system into smaller components and packages each of these components as a snap, so there are no DEB packages any more. This has some advantages over the Silverblue approach because you can control these components individually. For example, you can opt to switch your kernel to the "edge" channel and you'll get the latest kernel without having to build it yourself and without losing automatic updates to that kernel. Same can be done with Gnome Shell or Mesa or any other component in the system. You can also easily install multiple desktop envs without messing the system since each of these DEs will be a separate snap, which likely means there won't be different flavours of this, just one flavour with all DEs.
This also means Ubuntu can, hopefully, provide a better install and update experience since it'll have one package system instead of two, so the devs can focus their efforts on getting this right instead of having to maintain two separate package formats.
All of this, however, is theoretical potential. It remains to be seen whether Canonical manages to get it right, but if they do I bet it'll make Ubuntu an attractive distro to a lot more people.
Personally, I hope this will encourage someone to fork snap and make it properly open.

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I wish they reveal how much of these 500k are on Linux/Steam Deck.

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I have played it on PS5 and I really recommend it. A lot of fun; much improved over the previous version.

Although, I doubt this will work smooth on the Steam Deck. It's a game that requires a pretty performant GPU and NVME.

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"fragmented platform"

What a silly excuse

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I'm guessing the difference between this and the one in the Steam Deck isn't big enough to warrant a 2nd gen Steam Deck yet, otherwise Valve would've rushed to use it as well.

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Quoting: GuestThe reason why linux is not popular in china is simple: piracy, piracy and piracy. China doesn't care about copyright stuff at all. If you don't want piracy, there are "smuggled" windows oem keys for as low price as 2-5$. Some chinese fake company pretends to make 100000 windows tablets, and issues the same amount of oem codes from microsoft, then sells it. And as they don't care about open source, or the philosophy behind it, there is no any need or desire for them to adopt linux in any way. Also the asian culture is way more conformist-ish. Windows is the standard thing, and most of people use it without questioning. And let's admit it for once, it is a bit easier to use, and has more hardware support.

So we have multiple factors that set things as they are.

Piracy has little to do with this. The vast majority of those who use Linux have no problem shelling out $100 for a Windows license; they choose Linux for reasons other than cost. The reality is that the culture of open source almost does not exist in China, nor anywhere else outside of Europe and North America. For some reason people there simply do not understand the reason why openness is important, or just do not care.

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