The question is, does it allow top easily create modpacks?

Because right now, that's massive a nuisance with curseforge. You basically need to run their app, on dotnet, on wine. Which may or may not work, depending on the phase of moon or what the apps devs smoked last night.

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To add insult to injury, software is not patentable. At least half of the patents involved in that lawsuit are actually software patents.

Europe: https://new.epo.org/en/legal/epc/2020/a52.html
USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_States_patent_law

But some fuckwits of patent lawyers argued, "algorithm" in patent law is not the same as in mathematics, and thus software -- of maths -- is patentable. Or that software was made specific to the device it ran on:
https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-moby-dick-support-device/
(this is the reasoning underlying most of the patents mentioned in this suit).

Software patents as such have never been challenged in court, but they're mostly not enforced, and the patent offices keep accepting them illegally, even if they're not enforceable.

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The patent system is completely broken. FUBAR.

This is an NPE (Non-Practising Entity) in patent-system slang, meaning they don't produce anything, they were just able to secure a patent for some reason, that's suing a company that produces something. It's called extortion everywhere else.

And while the patent system might have been put up with good intentions, it only ever works for chemicals as intended (because CHOOH2 is an entirely different chemical than CHOOOH2, and not a derivative, and this is well understood); everywhere else it serves as an intertwined mess of a hedge that prohibits newcomers to enter a market, or as weapon of corporate warfare for incumbents to kill startups.

This is a relatively recent paper on this:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.27.1.3

And here is a rant from 1851(!) in "The Economist"(!) that already understood why a patent system is total dreck:
https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/voices-against-the-patent-system-the-economist-1851/

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> handling typos a bit better too, matching up names a bit closer

Not sure how I feel about that. The bigger the indexed body goes, the more your queries get answers swamped with irrelevant stuff. Case in point is "I decided to ignore the numerical parameters in your error message" google.

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Yeah, I hate it when I have to guess from the trailer what the gameplay might look like. "Hm, it looks like 3rd person action -- oh nevermind, it's top-down real-time strategy, and the only time you see it this up close is in the cut-sequences".

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My steam on the desktop bailed out right away after the update. Turns out, steamwebhelper needs "apt install libsdl3".

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Quoting: InhaleOblivionAnyone of us who has used Linux for years prior to the advances of gaming understands why those of us who are lifelong gamers have two PC builds.

I can see why you would want to do that, especially if you want to play certain multiplayer games.

But no. I'm on Linux since 1995 or so, and deleted my DOS/Windows3.11-partition in 1996 when DOOM came out on Linux. So I've been a Linux-user AND a gamer years "prior to the advances of gaming".

And yes, if a game doesn't run on Linux, one way or another, native or with wine or with emulators, I'm not interested. I won't run (native) Windows ever again.

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Porting always increases code quality.


But in the end, if you're not developing all platforms together, in the same codebase, with continuous testing, you'll end up with diverging code and a mess that is difficult to fix.

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I'm currently playing https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-the-mods-gravitas but yeah. Usually I don't play modpacks for old versions (this runs on 1.18.2), but I made this an exception.

But vanilla? Well, for me right now there's not enough https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create in it...
(If you don't know what that is, well, watch the intro there. Yes, that's all done in-game).

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So they've been sued and convicted for privacy-violations, and they decided to add another one?

Hint: If your behaviour is violating the privacy of kids, the solution is not to ask for a birthdate (which, by the way, already violates the privacy of kids) to only violate the privacy of adults.

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