Ummmmmm

Y'all know you can turn the safety net off right?

Like it looks like it could be a command line option, or you could put it in the apt conf file.


It's not even a big deal. I mean the most we'd have to do is Google it when we run that issue.

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Ok, I'm not much of an RTS person, bit this looks awesome

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Quoting: ShmerlOpenGL for new projects will surely not be a thing. Non gaming applications are just progressing slowly, but they are going to move away from OpenGL, no question about it.

And support for OpenGl will end. It will not be maintained forever, no matter what industry likes it and what legacy programs use it.

I can say this for a fact as I work is place in a similar situation. The system that runs my entire workplace runs on... DOS.

Any replacement will use new, modern API's, because the language our system was written in isn't taught in University anymore.

I see no reason the same won't happen for OpenGL. Sure, there will still be running programs and apps 30 years from now, but something like zink will handle them long after driver support has gone.

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We all also have to remember that while the package manager (whichever you use) is an integral and important part of daily Linux use, there is no real equivalent in Windows.

Even the most basic concepts like the fact the OS is "modular" with dependencies and conflicts to packages all on the OS level is basically foreign.

Back to apt.... I figured I look at what we have to do if I really want to remove *that* package.
The change log in debian is not to helpful:

 
* Require argument to remove essential packages, do not prompt
  * Do not remove Essential/Protected due to dependencies.
    Thanks to Ariadne Conill for the inspiration

And from the diff, I assume you must set this argument to true:?

 
"APT::Get::Allow-Solver-Remove-Essential"

Sorry, I can't program and C is way beyond my ability to read, but I'm assuming we can just pass that with the rest of our arguments when we run apt ( or maybe set it in a conf file).

Come to think of it, could be good if you want to ensure *that* special package stays no matter what. I'm struggling to think of an example here though.

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The first game I've ever seen where the epilepsy warning seems to be an understatement, lol.

It does look... Intense... Like I'm not sure I'm hardcore enough to handle it.

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Quoting: F.UltraHow do we get people out of these prejudices?

If I may add to you list, there is also a prejudice (or preference?) against warnings.
We tend to ignore them for a variety of reasons ( it won't happen to me, it doesn't apply to me, I've done it before and nothing bad happened then, this is just for liability, they are too cautious... Etc)

I'll admit I'm guilty of that myself, borking my install more times than I can count because I wanted to try something different or new.

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Besides, wouldn't it just be easier collect the "does it start?" data from Steam users? Send a lot faster and easier.

I'm sure Steam actively monitors quite a bit of our systems. I know it monitors our game directories (if, say you manually add a mod to a game, it won't let you play it until you upload a copy of it to them or remove it), and it does something with the network (I get a sudo request from Network Manager every time I open Steam - NM is superuser only on my laptop). Even in "offline mode" it reaches out over the network.

We know it tracks whether the game is running, play time, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if it tracks some other info to send to Valve.

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Quoting: whizsePeople used to port Doom to every inconceivable piece of hardware.

I guess people ran out of hardware and now try to implement every inconceivable game genre in Doom?

Can't wait for Dune Doom!

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Wow, they all look really nice!

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This is literally like the most polite DE war I've ever seen, lol.

If it has a Start menu I can type in, does Windows, and has system tray/notification area, I'm pretty happy.

Now, if you want to really impress me, implement a fully functional "Control Panel" / settings page / control center thing. Most DE's are a little limited to thier own settings. Closest thing I've seen is YAST, although I'm sure there are others.

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