Quoting: RanceJusticeI can understand some of the concerns here, but I have to ask - don't people just "reorder" their list? (...) I don't see the point of deletions really in regards to the Steam sale?

It's not that people have to prune their lists to get the (potential) free game they want, it's that they think they do. This sale event is needlessly complicated and most people aren't going to read the actual rules page. For something involving so many people from so many different backgrounds (including linguistically), Valve really should have embraced Keep It Simple Stupid.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAt this point, what is the best Ubuntu alternative?

Depends on what you're after. I left Ubuntu after they forced too many UI decisions I didn't like, so Mint was a natural choice for me. Similar look and feel to good old Ubuntu + Gnome.

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Quoting: Salvatos...Steam Machines . . . Sure they're not selling them anymore...

You are, of course, correct in general principle, but would it be the Internet if there were no one around to split hairs?

I'm only operating on hearsay, so I'm happy to be corrected :)

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Even Steam Machines isn't something I would quite consider a cancelled project. Sure they're not selling them anymore and they didn't meet the success they would have liked, but they are still updating the OS and nothing's stopping them from making a new generation of Steam Machines in the future with the experience and insight they've gained. In the meantime, as far as I'm aware, those who did buy one aren't left in the dark. They still have a working PC, an OS that receives updates (or whatever other OS they choose to install on it), and their Steam account isn't going anywhere.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe most compelling case I've seen for Esperanto was as an easily-learned sort of "middle layer" diplomats and translators could use, like at the UN or whatever. Computers are arguably making such middle layers obsolete, and I've noticed that manga translations that are two step kind of suck anyway. So even that niche is pretty iffy.

Any translation that needs to pass through intermediary translations is definitely going to lose something in the process. Translation is always a lossy conversion, so to speak, and while you can keep the gist of the meaning through several conversions, you inevitably lose and gain subtleties with every layer, which can end up making a significant difference. Despite that, it is very common for companies (and open source projects) to translate their source material to English first, and from English to all other languages, because it's easier and/or cheaper to find translators for a language pair that includes English.

I would also expect Esperanto to have the same problem as Latin, for instance, and lag behind neologisms (which, in many industries, originate from English or are popularized by it) as well as lack the cultural identity to adapt to idioms and cultural references without sounding stilted. Just look at how much English is seeping into other natural languages because they can't keep up with all the new terms and agree on local equivalents before the anglicisms take root. How many languages use "e-mail" as is although it would be rather trivial to translate the words "electronic mail"?

I feel like if you're going to pepper your speech with English words because they either don't exist in your intermediary language or you don't know them, you might as well just learn English.

That said, I don't exactly have anything against Esperanto or learning it. I've always wanted to learn Latin at some point, and God knows that would be useless.

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Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: SalvatosInteresting event, although I don't have any games currently tied to its achievements. Very interesting prizes too. The way it's designed, though, it looks like everyone should just join the same team (i.e. corgi) to ensure they are eligible for the free games.

Wrong. Only X players from the top 3 teams will win prizes. Meaning that you want to be one the smallest winning team. Corgi is probably the biggest now, not the best choice.

Well, so far it seems impossible to gauge which teams will be #2 and #3, so it's a risky call to make since you can't change your team. Since lower positions also have fewer random winners AND fewer prizes per winner in the case of the final draws, the best position depends on the actual number of entrants per team, and it might not be worth risking being completely excluded from the draws. Perhaps a safe position will have emerged by the end of the first period tomorrow, but every other team has been uncharacteristically close ever since I started looking at the race.

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Interesting event, although I don't have any games currently tied to its achievements. Very interesting prizes too. The way it's designed, though, it looks like everyone should just join the same team (i.e. corgi) to ensure they are eligible for the free games.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI simply look beyond a few personal inconveniences at the bigger picture.
And the bigger picture is that progress requires sacrifice. Can't play some games/use some apps anymore? So be it, if that's the price to pay to finally get rid of old stuff like 32bit for good.

Because . . . the libraries take up a few megs on your terabyte+ hard drive? Yeah, surely it's worth getting rid of some functionality to get that!!!
But you know, all you have to do is delete the relevant libs. Nobody's stopping you.

That wouldn't serve any purpose, as it would only be for me. As I said, I'm looking at the bigger picture here.
And the bigger picture is that right now, 32bit is like an annoying mosquito at the butt of many developers and users... just look at this very situation.

I don't know about that. I've never had to check or ask myself whether a program uses 32-bit or 64-bit architecture because my 64-bit system can run both. That's hardly a bother for me as a user. No longer being able to run certain programs and finding out that they use older architecture, though... that would suck.

In my simple opinion, complaining about 32-bit being supported because you don't want to use it would be like complaining about a distro having printer drivers because you don't intend to print anything. If they bother you that much, you can remove them, but there are certainly enough users out there that need them to justify shipping them by default, or providing an easy way to install them (meaning they still have to be maintained anyway).

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As well as "Compelling multi-layered story".

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Quoting: linuxcityDaedalic has been really good to linux

Took the words right out of my mouth! I haven't really played RTS's in years, but I'm intrigued by this one. I'd be happy to at least talk about it around me as a token of gratitude for that continued support.

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