As much as we might cringe at what Linus did, it's a good object lesson for him in just how fundamentally different Linux is from other OSes. You're allowed to do *whatever you want* including removing critical packages. Fortunately, neither starting over with a fresh install, nor fixing major breakages, are nearly as big a deal in Linux land as in Windows land. Totally breaking a system is just part of the learning process in these parts.

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Probably showing my age here, but I actually quite enjoyed Sonic Adventure back when it came out on Dreamcast (even as quirky as it was). After that I just couldn't find much of that original "Sonic feel" in any of the 3D games I tried.

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To each their own, I suppose, but to me, politics poison everything they touch. For games, this is true whether or not one agrees with the developer's opinions. My favorite games transport me to another reality, rather than reminding me about the things I'd rather avoid in this one.

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Like others have mentioned, I too use Steam mainly because that's where most of my games were bought from. The only way to eliminate the vendor lock-in problem for good would be for all these competing game distribution services to be supplanted by a single, open-source, decentralized (so probably blockchain-based) option. The LBRY network comes to mind... it's already possible to distribute software there but the various front end clients aren't exactly tailored to it, yet. Perhaps integration with it (or another better-suited network, if there is one) would be worth looking into for the devs of, say, Lutris and/or GameHub.

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As a small business owner... this belongs in the horror genre.

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Quoting: NibelheimI'm curious about people DE who use standalone WM. What is your WM ?

Personnaly, I use standalone OpenBox.

I'd like to see that as a dropdown option, I'm curious what others use also. Though I realize it would be hard to list all or even most of them. (Awesome WM user of 4 years here, though I also love OpenBox and use it at work)

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This is a pretty ridiculous way to test the Linux community, but also shows that the kernel devs need to stay top of their game... just imagine what could happen when (not if) malicious code does slip through the review process. (Reminds me a bit of the so-called "Grievance studies affair").

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Quoting: PJThis game is among the best platformers I've played and the style is simply amazing.

Agreed. As an old man in internet terms (now in my 40s), few games really grip me and compel me to complete them any more. This one did.

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Quoting: DuncArch just hasn't felt as “Arch-ey” since the switch to systemd. It's not even about the merits or otherwise of systemd itself (I'll reluctantly admit it has its good points). But the old init system was glorious, and for me, since the moment I first used it, as much part of what made the distro special as pacman and the AUR. And they just dumped it.

This sums it up for me too. I really enjoyed the elegant simplicity of modifying one file (rc.conf) to control the system's services and network config. I don't know enough about how systemd works to say whether it's more or less efficient, but it sure is a whole lot harder to understand.

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I'm sure the game is fun, but I'd also love to have a desktop environment that looks like this...

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