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So they removed the one clear and instantly noticeable indicator of group membership for some of these characters - that does not seem like a smart move somehow. The Bigband changes seem also counterproductive. And, skipping through the video, most of the other just makes one wonder how someone managed to get their panties in a twist over them and on top of that paid for altering them. An impressive feat!

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Great. More division of the user-base and problem solving and guides will probably be incompatible between immutable and classic distros.
Also sounds like another step towards project walled garden. This is your system? This is our System! And we will remove the pesky choice of not using our in house container distribution system. Meaning developers will be more inclined to prioritize snap support over other packaging and so over time will the user-base. Let's face it: there is no home desktop user advantage compared to a well put together distro here in fact there is the potential for quite a lot of frustration like in chrome os or android when people with small problems or needs that should be easily solvable run into artificial brick walls placed there fore the cryptic promise of 'more security and stability'.There seems to be corporate interest though. One wonders why...
'But...think of the children!'- Yeah, I am. I'd rather see them explore and get their hands dirty and their clothes torn, once in a while, out in the open, then in a fenced and allegedly sanitized Playground in front of Corporate building.
Who knows? I may be proven wrong...;-)

Sorry quite late here: please use these freely above wherever you feel the need: ,,,,,,,,,,,..

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Whenever it is ready, guys! Take your time.

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Quoting: Duckeenie

Quoting: SchattenspiegelWow... that is a study in how not to design a webpage.

This is why we can't have nice things. Be constructive man.

Sorry, just a bit of frustration over the state of the world in general venting and indeed a bit unhelpful I'll admit. ;-)
What I meant was priority of information on the app pages - what is really important to identify and install the app should be immediately accessible without having to scroll through neat, but low priority data.
Screen-space could also be used more efficiently so scrolling in general is kept to a minimum.
Look at the size of the screenshot area compared to the size of actual screenshots for example or the wastefulness of the enormous 'more'-button in the change-log-section - the hidden information could have already been displayed in the empty wasteland on the upper parts of the page while still looking more tidy and neat.
Advertisers tend to waste space like that a lot these days in order to show off their products, but from a user perspective, these sites are always quite annoying and fatiguing to use. And an App-store with free to use software should probably prioritize user-experience(fast delivery of relevant information and low user workload) first and then worry about making it look appealing as the cherry on top.

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Wow... that is a study in how not to design a webpage.

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So, there is a working .deb of Steam provided by Valve and then Canonical decides, nah, that is working to well on our distribution, let's introduce additional points of failure by wrapping it into lot's of additional bubble wrap with our personal logo this totally open and free packaging standard that everyone could use if they went a little bit out of their way and accepted a few performance and efficiency regressions - on it an then ask the community - assuming said community can fit the 'improved' product's more ...chunky... dimensions into their existing gaming spaces and time schedules - to QA it because otherwise to big a task?

At first glance one might be tempted to ask: Why?
But then I remembered something that is easily forgotten these days: this is Linux! So if someone is doing to do some crazy and unnecessary Stuff - just because!- , you take a casual, fascinated glance at this marvel, offer a barely audible, but heartfelt 'Neat!' as commentary, and move on with your life.

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BP is noticeably better but still quite slow on nVidia.
and somehow my skin to remove the news section from the standard client does not seem to work anymore - well, back to manually removing it I guess...

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Like the shaders quite a bit.

Had to compile myself since their ubuntu.deb seems to be giving me problems every time (might be some thing messed in my system though because i had this problem with scummvm only for the last couple of versions)

They did fix the UI problems of 'Whispers of a Machine' but the performance of this title as well as 'Unavowed' were noticeably better with version 2.6.0 . Guess some of the AGS engine fixes they had in the previous version have fallen under the rug.

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ok so now we have only a few hundred kb downloads and half an hour of shader pre-compiling in the background...for however many people use this feature and dare to have more than one game installed ... this seems a bit wasteful energy wise, does it not?

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