Well from a Linux gamer's perspective we have seen much worse acquisitions over the last years where MS was actually swallowing Linux 'friendly' companies.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: SchattenspiegelPurely for voice chat: much better than discord!

Why? I wanted to do voice chat (Valheim with a Windows using friend) lately for the first time (yay!). I was "defaulting" to Discord, but in the end wasn't sure why not to use say Telegram or WhatsApp (latency?) or, well, we were two, good old phone line.
What should we use - and why?

First of all you are free to use whatever floats your boat.
That being said mumble is lightweight and offers better configure-ability for voice quality and microphone filters/thresholds than most of the other options. It is simply more focused on the voice chat aspects.

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Purely for voice chat: much better than discord!

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Quoting: LazoraI read that a few others about the same issue, the menu shortcut is messed up somehow.

Weird.
what does your menu shortcut command look like? mine is simply 'steam %U' and it works.
or are you using the flatpak version?

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Quoting: LazoraI've experienced 2 bugs since I upgraded to 20.3:

1. Starting up Steam will log you out to the login screen (unless you start it through Terminal).
2. Taskbar icons did not show up (at right-bottom), today it works again. Hopefully it is fixed!

Those seem to be local problems - maybe something went wrong with your upgrade? Because here it works like a charm.

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Plan does not sound so bad. Throwing a cartload of options at your face at every corner is one of the weaknesses of KDE. Hopefully they look more in the direction of things like Cinnamon than Gnome for inspiration and we might get a good improvement in usability. Another weakness is the need to constantly click 'apply' with KDE - the trained confirmation clicks are what cause 'L(inus)TT incidents' + an option to remove that would make workflow so much faster.

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Displaying relevant information and warnings is educational and not new-user-unfriendly.
Displaying empty error messages is training people not to read these before closing the window and then searching some some arcane solution on the net.

Finding a solution for a windows problem usually involves reading a 2-5 page guide with pictures that does no necessarily help you because it either uses a different language or the last update changed the gui for reasons.
A linux guide usually boils down to a single command line and in case of unfamiliarity copy&pasting said line into the search engine of your choice.
That makes Linux clearly a winner in my book. both in time involved and user-friendliness.

A smarter move then all these changes would have been to change the default Linux install option on all distros to install the system on a separate partition from the /home directory so even in worst case scenario they can simply do a fresh reinstall of the system and are ready to go again in 15 minutes even if they did not make a system backup. And chances are they would have learned something in the process.

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Can only bee good if one of the bigger names start shipping with something else then Gnome as standard DE. Gnome is simply not the best first impression DE, IMHO (To much learning coming from somewhere else and to limited features once you get serious) and is to widely endorsed for what it is or has become over the last years - although for some people the shoe may fit. If the better known distros Ship with different default Desktops and polish their respective user experience a bit, we can only profit.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: BeamboomOh ffs. Do even windows users use that one? What does the browser stats say?

It's actually more popular than Firefox overall, going by multiple stats websites.

not popular - people are just to lazy to google chrome

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funny: .deb and .rpm where everyone else is trying to clutter the SSD with fatpaks and snaps - although this might actually be one application that I would want sandboxed if I were to use it ;-)

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