Quoting: mylkamany problems come with KDE6, so it does not matter what form of release you have. kubuntu will face the same issues, but they have 5 more months to fix them, because they did not use it for 24.4

Well, that depends. Any distribution's customizations can have an effect if they have to be tweaked for compatibility. It would be interesting if the same poll was on Arch and KDE Neon, some of the earliest adopters I can think of.

I don't think I had any unexpected issues with the multiple Arch machines I maintain. But yes, I made BTRFS snapshots of my root and home partitions as well as a file-level backup of the entire system before I upgraded. I also performed the upgrade in a Virtual Machine first, like I do routinely with system updates.

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Umm, this news might be bad enough that I delete anything left on my computer that's related to EA. Do I have Titanfall 2 installed still? Probably nothing else installed besides that.

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I think this news sounds great, you pessimists! This is what gamers want I'd say.

Probably a result of the feedback for all the FFVII versions and spin-offs. Well, partly at least.

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If you love Manjaro, I'm not going to change your mind. Good for you. Be happy. Promote it even.

I moved on because there were small differences between my kids' Manjaro systems and my Arch system, and I got fed up. I wanted to be able to expect my configuration actions to have the same results (like script functionality and software versions). Additionally, avoiding a "major upgrade" as is described here is the exact reason I am on a rolling release, so Manjaro's user experience does not jive with me. It's like a rounded step release instead of rolling.

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Yup, getting this.

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I love this news.

For guessing why, my thoughts go toward a market larger than handheld gaming: cloud computing, which includes game streaming broadly speaking.

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Quoting: hardpenguin

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: d10sfanI personally won't since it'll have 100+ DLCs

So, just like The Sims then :P

Yeah lol it would be great if a high quality Sims competitor offered more for less. That would be some value. Otherwise, why should I play it over The Sims 4 or The Sims 3 for which I recently bought all the DLCs during a -50% sale?

I am going to hope and expect that Paradox's content strategy will be more appealing, with their free updates alongside paid DLC (SnowRunner does the same). Also, we might get real Linux support. Also, don't have to use EA Origin launcher. Also, don't have to use EA's DRM.

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SteamDB says the 24-hour player peak was ~45K, which is a far cry from the 2M a few months ago. 45K is still a very good amount of people, but methinks this game loses luster pretty quickly. A couple of my friends who got sucked into the hype played it for about two weeks I think.

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There is a problem with the CEO making more money after cutting all those people. But guess what, it's exactly how CEO pay incentivizes them to make decisions. Say your base salary is $1M with the potential to make $2M when the company meets certain annual profit goals. Guess what you're going to do when the profit numbers don't look good.

Yes, there is a problem with the model. And yes, there are other business models that share more of the wealth, so solutions already exist to CEO caps. But why don't those other companies hold much market share? I'm guessing one of the reasons is start-up money. Investors aren't going to give money to an entertainment company for charity -- they want something back for letting a company "borrow" their money and taking the risk that the company may never be capable of paying it back. And then you get CEO's driven with a profit purpose.

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Quoting: mphuZ

Quoting: _wojtekWhat I don't understand is why even require psn account in the first place? what's the "benefit"?

To inform at the next shareholders' meeting, "look how our numbers have grown!"

A more practical guess is cross-platform play.

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