Quoting: CyrilGuys, I'm really impressed how every time GOG comes to the topic you're saying the same thing over and over.
I think the record is scratched.

But but but... this is *important*!!!

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I'm not sure what the hell you're saying here about Flatpaks and Snaps being bad, but I get your point about cloud gaming, I suppose.

But from the enterprise perspective (I've been in tech for nearly 30 years and a geek for coming up five decades) that stuff is so cyclic. Back in the 70's and 80's everything was a terminal for big server clusters. Then we all went big desktops in the 90's. Then in the early 2000's, it was all Citrix and VMware Horizon on big clusters again. For the past ten to fifteen years, the focus has been PC's again, and now recently all this cloud gaming stuff has come along. Back and forth. Over and over.

I suppose it's a bit worse generally now in terms of "owning" stuff - music is on Spotify, films are on Netflix, and now we have games on Stadia or GFN. There's subscriptions for EA, or Xbox. Hell, you can even get a Kindle sub for "free" books these days.

But none of that stops you owning things if you want to. I have friends who still buy CDs to burn to FLAC and buy Blurays and DVDs to watch. People still buy books - actual books.

It's a stretch (and super insulting) to be calling people brainwashed or lazy just because, unlike you it seems, they actually enjoy using their PCs however they want.

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So, I've said this before - it infuriates me that such a tiny niche community as Linux will find ways to shit all over other portions of the same niche community.

As a general reminder, distro-wars are not tolerated on GOL. Read the rules, which are linked just slightly above every comment box you type into.

Please stop with the thinly veiled contempt for other people's choices and experiences - define your distro by the things you love about it, and sing about those things to the world. Stop, stop, stop tearing down others.

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The kind of game I might play with two or three close friends, but would never, ever play with randos online.

It's great to see so many otherwise disinterested game devs making an effort to be SteamDeck (or even just Proton) compatible. I wonder when I'll feel comfortable just buying such a title, instead of waiting for 80% sales. I'm coming round a bit more, I think, but I still sport a huge internal bias towards native releases. Maybe when I own a SteamDeck, that'll tip me over the edge!

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Quoting: GuestFurthermore, snap and flatpak are also a serious security risk

What?

Sure, the Snap/Lemmings vulnerability is an exceptional (and hard to implement, and local only) priv escalation, but I'm curious how you're arguing that container solutions for packaging are a "serious security risk".

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Quoting: wolfyrionOnce you go with Arch you never go back.... :P

I am using EndeavourOS which is kinda Arch with easy installation...

Is just everything works...
I am even on testing repos on Arch with KDE Unstable , very few issues which most issues are solved within a day.

Well, the article says Arch, but I think it was EndeavourOS that Liam was on before he hopped on to Fedora. Indeed, it was his article about it that convinced me to make the same leap. I've been on Endeavour for about 2 or 3 months now. It's great - really enjoy it, and no breakages, whatsoever.

My only gripe is that LUKS takes about 40 seconds to boot - for some reason they decided to put LUKS on the /boot partition as well as the rest of the system, and then combined that with loads of encryption iterations. I guess it's secure, but goddam, it's ridiculous overkill.

A minor gripe though. The system itself is really just Arch and has all the advantages and disadvantages you'd expect from that.

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According to Lutris, I own 64 games on GOG. According to my GOG account status, that amounts to £10.82 in revenue, since 2013. Every else is either Steam Connect titles (back when that was a thing), or Humble Bundles / Prime Gaming.

But of course, GOG don't care about Linux, so I don't care about GOG.

Incidentally, £7 of that revenue was a single game - Descent, so that I could play it on the fully Linux compatible DXX-Rebirth engine. I've never understood how GOG could have this wonderful back catalogue of old games and not see the opportunity afforded by such projects, and Linux itself. Hey ho.

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Funnily enough Ghostrunner was free on Amazon Prime (via GOG) in April, so it seems it's doing the rounds. At least, I think it was - I just checked the Prime gaming page, but it's updated to May's offers now.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumnext to a haggis (I really need to get back to Scotland and get another proper haggis)

I like haggis, or at least I like the couple of hunks of haggis I've had. But I do find myself wondering if anyone in Scotland actually eats haggis, or if it's just something they do for tourists.

Well, obviously, we all tend to eat haggis on Jan 25th, for Burn's night. If it's like a party, we'll even do the "Addressing the haggis" (reciting some/all of "Ode to a Haggis", then cutting it open) and the "Reply to the Laddies" (a humourous speech often pointing out men's flaws) too, both of which are great fun. In all my life though, I've only ever done that two or three times, so I suppose it depends on your circle of friends!

Otherwise, in our house at least haggis tends to be something we only cook about two or three times a year. However, it's incredibly popular as a breakfast item up here, so if you order a "Full Scottish Breakfast" it will almost certainly feature haggis along with the more traditional "English Breakfast" items like black pudding, sausages and bacon.

It's also very popular as a chippy option. While my boys favour a steak pie and my wife tends towards the traditional fish'n'chips, I almost always order the haggis. When it's served from a chippy, it's battered, which sounds weird, but (provided the batter isn't too thick) works really well. Give it a dash of brown sauce - delicious.

Fair to say it's not just for tourists though, at least in my experience.

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Quoting: FifteenthPenHahahahahahaha! This is why when you come up with a name for something, you google it before going ahead with it.

Quoting: Cybolic"Kitsune" means fox and is fairly well known as a name for the Japanese folklore of shapeshifting foxes. What exactly comes up in your search?

Yeah, I only get a bunch of Japanese kitsune/fox references/imagery too - tried searching "kitsune", "kitsune tails" and kitsune zero". Did you mis-spell a search or something? What on earth did you search for??

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