Quoting: BlackBloodRum

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: BlackBloodRumIt was inevitable. Flatpak will suffer the same too at some point.

They have their conveniences, but they will always come with this risk.

This is the second time it's happened. Flatpak actually labels stuff as unsafe if you're using the UI. I always check to see if it's made by the upstream project or not. For example, Discord flatpak is not from Discord, you should download the .deb/tar.gz from their website.

That's a recent addition.

The problem is, many people may simply ignore such warnings and use it anyway. But just like anything when it comes to technology, just use common sense and caution, you should be fine.

Right. One of the main reasons Linux is not known for malware and viruses is because the software comes from the distribution themselves. This has the benefit of one of the few attack vectors being actually getting into the repository systems to modify files, which has happened to pretty much any distro at one point or another, but it's not the easiest thing to do.

Flatpak / Snap doesn't have such a barrier, granted if you are one to upload something nasty there, it's likely you won't be given access to do the same in the future.

If people are ignoring the 'This package is unsafe!' then that's really on them, no? Ha, I was using the Flatpak for Discord for while, but then I went to launch it one day and it was like 'yeah, don't do this, we have a deb package.' and then it started downloading that. I had to remove the flatpak one and just use the .deb, which will send me to the website to download the new .deb once there is one... Discord does it weird. Just add a apt repo, ffs, so it'll just update when I 'apt update'.

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Quoting: sonic2kkI would love an Index, but I don't think I have enough space in any room in my home for it, let alone the room with my PC. Aside from the cost, the required play area for VR is the main prohibitive factor for me.

Having said that, I will still probably end up getting the Deckard...

You want to talk space... I bought the KatWalk VR thing too... still need to torture myself and get it actually configured in Windows... got as far as realizing I needed to re-mod SkyrimVR...

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Haha, I literally have been recently playing around with a Pentium 233 MMX build in a BabyAT case. So it has no power management and will plop up the 'It is now safe to shut off your computer' screen. That's the only place that really ever showed up, if you didn't have ATX.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumIt was inevitable. Flatpak will suffer the same too at some point.

They have their conveniences, but they will always come with this risk.

This is the second time it's happened. Flatpak actually labels stuff as unsafe if you're using the UI. I always check to see if it's made by the upstream project or not. For example, Discord flatpak is not from Discord, you should download the .deb/tar.gz from their website.

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Quoting: devlandUncurated packages? Like ARCH's AUR that everybody warns you against using?

Oh, it has the canonical logo slapped on it. That's much better. /$

The huge difference between AUR and snap? You can see exactly what the AUR PKGBUILDs are doing...

They're generally built to snag from the upstream repo that you can verify, it verifies the hash against the tarball release, and you can see in the PKGBUILD if anything is being injected into it after that fact...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, it's like when a company buys another one for their IP... then fires off all the engineers that created said IP. It's dumb as shit. Buy a company for their talent... IP comes and goes...

Trademarks and patents should, IMO, have an expiration time if the owner ceases to produce anything from them. In the digital world, it's hard to think of a fair and practical length of time. 20 years? 30? 50 feels ancient for digital content. Less than 20 feels a little unfair to me.

It wouldn't solve companies buying smaller ones for their IP, but it might help a little.

Good example of this is Immersion. When was the last time you saw a new joystick that supports force feedback? Apparently there are some niche company that sells their own design of one that is like 3k for just the base unit... No one wants to pay them their fee, so no force feedback for us that used to enjoy such a thing. Ha, watched a video about this last night, an LGR one, and as he pointed out 'much different than the little vibration motors we have in modern controllers.'

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Quoting: constThey could have just gone to fair competition practices and turning their store into something viable, but laying of people is just so much easier.

Bingo.......

As someone who has worked in mega large soulless corporations for over 2 decades........ They will always...... ALWAYS go the easy route........ Even if it blows up and costs them more in the long term....... The board and the CEO will just leave with their golden handshakes and someone else will come in with some other lazy solution to the current mess and the cycle continues.......

For example....... one company I worked for wanted software for a certain application....... Instead of getting the already employed company software engineers to make the software...... They scouted around and found another company that was making software that would fit their needs....... They then bought that company...... Then proceeded to fire everyone from the newly bought company......... AND then found out the software wasnt anywhere near finished and wasnt useable at all........

The CEO left with a multi million dollarydoo golden handshake and a new CEO came in and their solution was just to scrap the entirety of the code we had and go scouting for a third party to make the software........

And the kicker is that they didnt use the companies own software engineers because....... "The company did not see any value in getting them to make the software"........

I use to like reading Dilbert...... But hes now to close to reality to be funny........

Sorry for the off topic rant...... But this kind of stuff really *BEEPS* me off..........

Yeah, it's like when a company buys another one for their IP... then fires off all the engineers that created said IP. It's dumb as shit. Buy a company for their talent... IP comes and goes...

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Quoting: Mountain ManThird Counter Strike game in the franchise.

Valve names it Counter Strike 2.

Classic.

SteamOS 3.x seems to be the only evidence that they believe the number 3 exists. I am still expecting Half-Life 5 to be released soon.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjeGranted, I'm not attempting to be antagonistic.

And yet you are succeeding.

Have to succeed at something!

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Quoting: MiZoGThe main advantage of LMDE over Debian + Cinnamon for experienced users who like this DE and Mint's Xapp family of programs is that you get all their upgrades against the same base system. For example, LMDE5 started with Cinnamon 5.4 and now is on 5.8.x getting all the new features users of main Mint edition got with LM 21.0 and LM 21.1. This is not possible in vanilla Debian.

For newbies, niceties like enabling os-prober (they dual-boot in the beginning, no?), non-free firmware software sources (needed in the past) and contrib / backports repos out of the box (still needed), flatpak/flathub support in the Software Manager are not something to dismiss. It takes 5 minutes to me to add them but for new users setting them up can be confusing and time consuming.

Apart from all these, Cinnamon runs predictably well everywhere, Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Armbian (!) you name it.

Looks like Bookworm is right in the middle with 5.6 of Cinnamon.

On the note of os-prober. Anyone notice that newer distros have mostly been disabling this now by default, when before it was default to look for other OS's? Granted I've given up on grub for the most part and use rEFInd, but that's due to me triple-booting.)

For newbies who just want software to be available, agreed having the repos there from install is nice. There used to be a few things I'd add for people when I'd set them up a Debian system. Used to be the firmware/contrib/non-free repos, get the drivers installed, and whatever base apps they'd tend to want to use (though that usually didn't require anything as a base gnome or kde install pretty much covers everything).

These days a fresh install basically just needs nvidia added (if that is in there) and steam. Depending on the person, I'll enable flatpak.

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