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Ok thats really cool. Can we get some screenshots in the README.md though?

Can we get some screenshots uploaded to the README.md?

I’m with you on that one

This kind of pedantery is peak autism right here (hello fellow autist)

No, what OP is talking about is definitely a “thing.”

Then why do the fan game developers consistently nail what everyone wants? Christian Whitehead made a career out of it. Sonic Mania was the fruit of that labor. There is the modernization of Sonic Adventure 2 project that rebuilds the game on UE5 I think that everyone was universally floored by.

It isn’t that Sega has an impossible task to please Sonic fans, it’s that either their corpo overlords dont let them do what is needed to pull it off, or their egos are too large to allow them to listen to their fanbase. Sonic Team was internally pissed that Sonic Mania was more popular than the project they had worked on at the same time (I believe it was Sonic Forces), and then later the new 2.5d Sonic game didn’t do so well which rubbed them raw even more.

Sonic fans dont shy away from communicating what it is that they want, you know this to be true.

Open source devs that suck are worse than non- open source devs that are actually into their project!

Non-open source devs suck by virtue of being closed source, period. It doesn’t matter how good their project is, if it’s closed it goes in the trash.

Why would you call closed source client apps “open”?

Its not better per se compared to other Linuxes for gaming, just pre-configured to take a lot of the basic setup work out of it for you.

No, it doesn’t.

Yup. Its not the default anymore (and for good reason), but it is still supported for now. This is a pretty straightforward solution to the problem.

Both are really good but it depends on your hardware setup and your goals.

Do you have multiple monitors of different resolution and DPI mixes with a primary monitor thats 1440p or 4k at 90 to 144hz and/or variable refresh rate and older/cheaper side monitors that are 1080p 60hz? Wayland is going to be your best friend.

Do you have a single monitor setup (or identical monitors) that you primarily program on or do system admin work that you need remote desktop from? X11 is gonna be your go-to (for the foreseeable future).

Do you want to try exotic window managers like a sliding window manager? Wayland is the way to go.

Wacom tablet? Wayland is working on it but its not quite there yet so X11 for you artists. This also lets you keep using color profiles until Wayland gets that implemented too (my bets are on Plasma getting it first).

And so on.

Do note though that MeshCore is proprietary and has a licensing cost to unlock all of its features whereas Meshtastic is open source and free as in freedom.

It really isn’t unfortunate, though.

Ive already seen it. I forget the game but there was a recent one that had a steam deck allow profile but blocked Linux outright.

Pixel phone with grapheneOS has been an interesting ride. Not having push sucks but I still get notifications for SMS, signal, xmpp, and Matrix. Only one I miss is Discord.

Maps gets replaced with Organic Maps or its fork CoMaps.

I access my bank through my browser.

I do both. At home I do what you’re describing for Linux but at work I do sysadmin work.

The stuff that winds up mattering on the Windows side tends to be a lot more social and resource based than it is hyper technical and digging in the weeds. If vendor software sucks, you debug it by yelling at the vendor to stop sucking (in the nicest way you can muster). You’ll need to document expected vs actual behavior but most of them will hop to and provide a fix fairly quickly. The rest is just making sure you have correct configurations and a proper environment set up (including security and such). Easier said than done of course.

You missed 3 times in a row.

1. The 30% cut thing has been industry standard since the dawn of time. Valve goes out of its way to make exceptions to this rule down to 10% in cases of very high volume but everyone only talks about the 30 since thats all they hear about. Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point. Plus, developers are not getting nothing for that 30%, especially games that use Valve’s Steam networking services. Unlike Microsoft and Sony who also take 30% cuts, Valve doesn’t charge $10,000 per game patch to have someone review and approve it to be published.

2. The regional pricing goes both ways. There was literally a game recently users were complaining about NOT getting it because the publisher opted out or something, where the regional pricing would have made the game affordable but in USD (Valves country of origin and therefore default), it was exhorbitantly priced. And this one wasn’t even Valve’s fault.

3. Valve did not censor games directly on behest of the Australian nutjobs, they fought back against them pretty hard, but Valve is ultimately beholden to the payment processors (who they also pushed back on). Once Visa and MasterCard started threatening to pull services, Valve was put in a “comply or die” situation. If they didn’t do as they were told they wouldn’t be able to accept money with anything but Stripe or Bitcoin. They literally lost Paypal as a payment option over this fight.

I think its very dishonest of you to frame these points as enshittification. This term means the intentional degradation of a product or service for the sole motive of increasing profits. For point 1, the whole industry literally started off like that. For point 2, it was literally an attempt at equity (valve may not get the deltas correct but in some countries they’re losing money on games). And for point 3, you might be able to argue it but ultimately it wasn’t for profits so much as it was survival.

If you wanted to shitsling at Valve, you should have mentioned how Valve invented lootboxes in TF2 and then exacerbated the issue in CS:GO/CS2, releasing that awful plague onto the industry.

I dunno if you know this but SMS support got removed from Signal a few years ago

Its still better than any new chat protocol thats been made in the last decade. You’ll have to pry my family XMPP server out of my cold dead hands.