I bought it based on this article and it's an absolute joy on the Deck. Great game!

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"Guardians ot the Galagy"?? Okay, Intel.

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This is probably my most played game on my Steamdeck after almost never getting played at all on my main PC. The tracks are a perfect length for "pick up and play" gaming.

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Well, I feel like I need to pick apart a couple of points on that. Hopefully I'm not mis-quoting you, as I generally don't like "quote spamming" a reply, but here goes.

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's worse when you have Ubuntu having their own modifications to Gnome, and then Pop_OS hating Gnome

That's not "worse", or "hating" - to me, that's the opposite. Ubuntu and System 76 LOVE Gnome, but they recognise weaknesses, and have addressed those weaknesses. No idea what Ubuntu do to Gnome, right enough, other than add the Dash to Panel extension, but it's been a while since I tried it. As for System 76, they just wanted a better dock and better tiling.

Quoting: slaapliedjeSo is it that people hate Gnome? Do they hate a flavor of it? Do they hate that they have to install extensions 'to make it usable'?

Again, when you perservere, continuously, to improve something instead of walking away from it, it's clear to me that they absolutely love Gnome, but just want to further improve it.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI've been using Gnome-shell pretty much since about 3.10 or so? Once you understand what they are trying to do with it, it's actually quite good.

Good stuff. It didn't work for me, and I gave it a year. It's not terrible, but when I looked at the list of things I had to do to be pleased with it, I ran out of patience. Lots of extensions, tweaks, replacing Nautilus with Nemo, and so on. It felt like a burden.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI think my biggest complaint about KDE is that the default has always just reminded me of using Windows

Sounds like you might be a bit out of date on Plasma. It doesn't feel very Windows-y to me. The start menu, I suppose, is vaguely similar, albeit no tiles. I mean, if that was genuinely your biggest complaint, I'd suggest spending some time with alternative panel widgets and some theming. Although, Plasma's theming is pretty unintuitive. But if you're comfortable on Gnome, why bother?

Quoting: slaapliedjeI also kind of think macOS is kind of garbage

Back to the very first point of my original rant - I'd rather hear about things you love, than read about you (even politely) shitting on things you don't.

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It's not your job to motivate people here. Tearing down the things you don't like isn't helpful. Trash talking is just that - trash talking.

I actually can't believe that you took my post complaining about your childish negativity over a distro and decided to respond with a lengthy post being negative about the entire Thelio range (again), re-iterating your dislike of both Gnome and GTK (again) and then throwing completely unwarranted bullshit at KDE too. You're nothing if not consistent.

We'll agree to differ at least.

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Bought this and love it. But I bet the Synergy developers are kicking themselves that they weren't first to market. They're in the "Made in France" showcase on Steam right now and the similarities are startling.

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I think you might misunderstand a tiny bit - I agree with what you said. I just don't like the negative way you said it. I'm on KDE on Endeavour these days, don't have much time for Gnome myself - I tried to use it after Ubuntu ditched Unity in 2018, but it just wasn't for me.

But so what? That's my point - some people do like it, and it doesn't affect me AT ALL that they do.

There's absolutely nothing positive that comes from in-fighting, whether it's over distros, DEs, your packaging system or the stores you prefer. All I want to see is Linux becoming viable as a platform to combat the depressing defacto standard of "just use Windows". And tearing down good efforts to deliver that platform into the hands of the masses, like System76 and Pop_OS... it's just counterproductive. It achieves nothing, and worse, creates bitterness and negativity around something that, for someone else, might be magical and engaging.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: scaineweirdly aggressively rude

That's an odd take on a school yard spin on the name. It was meant to be comical but also on point, Pop_OS is a pretty horrible distro. There is a lot more that differentiates POP_OS from others, it's not just "just Gnome with tiling features and a dock." This is why every time I've tried it it's been brutally broken where a meh Ubuntu build works just fine. Plus anything based on Gnome gets a 100% NOPE for me. GTK has been broken by design for years now for specific things and Gnome doesn't care as they push for their Apple like organizational "direction." Due to that I won't even try anything Gnome / GTK based anymore because it is broken on my hardware config...by design.

I've said this before, and I'm pretty passionate about it - the last thing a tiny niche needs is half of that niche shitting on the other half for reasons that don't even affect them. You don't use Gnome, or rate it? Fine. But poking childish names at the whole distro and indeed, one of the extremely rare corporate sponsors of Linux as a whole? It's just not necessary.

Not saying that criticism isn't valid or welcome, but that's not what you were doing. "GTK is broken" and "broken by design", is also about as helpful, insightful and constructive as calling the whole distro "PukeOS". It's just petty and it diminishes the entire Linux ecosystem unnecessarily.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: scaineThat's a beautiful looking case. Very tempted... but no need for a new PC right now. One to keep an eye on.

Quoting: Guestmore like Puke_OS!

Seriously? It's just Gnome with tiling features and a dock. No need to be weirdly aggressively rude about it.

Nah, they janked it more with 22.04 and called it Cosmos or something. I tried installing it on my Thinkpad P52and it felt like I'd installed it on a 386 with an early VGA card! It was a slide show. Then randomly after trying to get it to update, it started working better... but then they built their packages to depend on not having gnormal gnome-session installed (like I tried installing their nvidia-prime package and it'd remove gnome and install cosmos) so I did what I didn't think I'd do... installed Ubuntu and ripped out snapd.

Sad as I really think that's a missing niche; a distribution that is released every 6 months with a new Gnome that is Debian based that doesn't have snapd. Basically Fedora; but Debian.

Pretty sure you can turn Cosmos off with a couple of sliders in the control panel.

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Quoting: scaine

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI tried collections with using genre tags a while ago. It was cool up until the point a game had two matching tags. Then it'll duplicate that game in your list and you have to manually remove one of the games from one of the new "automatic" collections.

That got annoying fast.

So back to manually organizing by genre with no duplicates it was

That's interesting. I haven't noticed that though and I have collection that matches three tags: adventure, point & click and story rich. Either the problem has been fixed or the problem might be bit more complicated than that.

Yeah.. just tried it, it's still a thing

If you create a category that matches only tag "Survival", another that matches only tag "stealth", and finally one that only matches tag "RTS", you game list will look like this:

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I don't think I understand the issue. That's how I'd expect the feature to work. What were you expecting?

I see now what he means, he doesn't like a game to appear in multiple categories.

Obviously a game can be both Horror and FPS and therefor appear in both those categories, to me that is fine.

But a game can be in two categories. How can you de-dupe that? It's suddenly missing from, say, the FPS list? That doesn't make any sense - if you look at the FPS collection, you'd be missing out on the games that are in the Horror collection because you'd manually remove it?

I feel like I'm missing how BlackBloodRum expects these collections to work.

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