All is well that ends well?

Honestly, this was never going to successfully end up on Steam. Would've been lucky with any emulation, but against Nintendo and its inane stance on emulation, there was never a chance.

But if they get to keep some of the improvements and managed to clear up the key situation, that's a win.

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QuoteIt's also slightly hilarious that a game about bums and toilets, helped find an issue with a colon

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Captain's logbook, startdate...

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More looking forward towards IWD2 in GemRB, as that is the one game that truly needs some love on modern & future machines.

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One big corporation I have no love for swallowing another I feel the same way about.

Since I (mostly) care about indies nowadays anyway, they can eat each other up all they want.

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Quoting: omer666I think privacy advocacy may be going a little over the top on this subject.

That's what they usually do, so yes.

Really, this seems very beneficial and absolutely harmless.

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Oof the opening of the trailer just gave me flashbacks to Spore....... *shudders*

I get that.

Spore, even decades later, still evokes that feeling of terrible disappointment and utterly wasted potential.

No wonder it took so long until someone even dared to try make another attempt.

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Quoting: GuestProton totally nuked this concept.

Not really.
That's still the best way by far to do cross-platform development.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's funny, part of the Tetris resemblance is actually pointless from a gameplay perspective. I mean, as far as I can tell it doesn't matter much what shape the things are coming down because they just turn into sand on contact, so they could just be blobs (narrower and taller or wider and flatter) coming down and it would work the same. But they use the Tetris shapes just for the evocation of Tetris-ness.

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Noita + Tetris = ???

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPFor desktops, I'm not sure about the use case.

Even without immutability, most big distros are already "it just works" - and in addition also offer more possibility to customize.

What it would offer is more security to not accidentally mess up your system, I'd wager.
But even then, that's what rollbacks are for, so... yeah, I'm really not sure about the use case on normal desktop.

The normal use case for immutability on the desktop, is the same reason immutability is the default on smartphones. I truly believe that the average human sees technology (in all forms) akin to that of an appliance or automobile. You push a button, engage with the controls, and it generates the expected response near every time. After providing voluntarily community IT support for many years, this impression is almost carved in stone within me.

At the core of it, the people I work with want to know very little about their PC (for a variety of reasons). Majority never even change the desktop wallpaper. They push the power button, then expect everything to work and be up to date. The younger ones do some customization, but defaults are king. Their systems take care of themselves and manual interaction is only performed when forced by system prompts. Linux can not enter this space without providing that which the current offerings have, which is an appliance-like nature by default. Automatic stable atomic updates, simple program installation, access to the majority of modern applications, and quick recoverability from technological hiccups are all needed to be baked in the operating system. Due to the functional structure of Linux and its FOSS subsystems, I truly respect the struggle that Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, SteamOS, MicroOS Aeon, and now Ubuntu development teams are engaged in to make this experience come to light.

Those reading here on GamingOnLinux are near guaranteed to not be the category of people I have described above. Hopefully, the Linux community at large can grow to be more understanding of the need for immutable desktop operating system. Without a doubt, there is a commercial interest from the these Linux companies, but should we not be supportive all the same for getting FOSS into the hands of people who are currently being exploited by non-open systems? Give this time, let's not let snaps vs ostree vs native be the focus, these things sort themselves out. While Fedora Kinoite may be my current go-to recommendation for new Linux users, I am very curiosity to see how things play out on the snap front.


TL:DR Immutable OSes need to come for the masses to engage with Linux and FOSS at a system level. Average people have quite a different perspective on computers than tech-understanding users like the GamingOnLinux readership. On both the commercial and humanitarian fronts, Immutable OSes provide benefits and the established Linux community should do it best to support these efforts (or at the very least not publicly disparage the good that comes form it).

Edit: To clarify, my last sentence was not implying that your specific comment was disparaging. Rather it was direct to the generic Linux user/commentator that might be inflamed by immutables.

So, an entry level Linux drug, then?

I can get on board with that

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