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In defense of preorders, even if they can’t run out of stock, servers can get overwhelmed. If they also do preloading and don’t fuck up a day 0 patch, you can ensure you can play the game immediately.

I still wouldn’t preorder this kind of game, I wouldn’t trust them not to botch it every way imaginable, but I’m reminded of the Silksong release, which I would’ve trusted with a preorder and could’ve avoided dealing with Steam going down when trying to buy it ;D

I would have to learn […] what packages I need, what are the ups and downs of the various packages

I consider that important knowledge for just using and troubleshooting your system, and one of the great reasons to go through the installation process - knowing what you’re using and why means when you want to change the behavior of something or figure out why it broke, you’ll know what software to look for.

Not just something to do for fun, or to have precisely the right things, but so you understand what it is you truly do have. This isn’t to say your approach is invalid, but for me it’s a reason to recommend Arch for people who want to go through the learning process.

Also someone sent me a two hour long video on exploiting goomba behavior in Super Mario 64 for glitches

Pancake man strikes again! I think part of what makes pannenkoek’s videos so enthralling is how they all build together towards the ABC - it’s not just random bugs in an old game, it’s bugs that are being found for a cause by a community of enthusiasts.

Bro’s trying the genocide route now

I might be missing something, but the order I know and have always seen recommended is REISUB. Terminating processes might write data to disk, so it seems to me like you should sync after, not before. Though this is also generally unimportant with modern filesystems and storage media.

I use Arch personally, and as mentioned you should restart every update - but you can just not update everyday (updates don’t even come at a scheduled time, it’s just packages getting new versions whenever, so by the time you finish updating there could be another updated package for you)

I think updating weekly and as necessary is a good schedule, though if you don’t update frequently and try to install something new, the version pacman will try to install will be based on your local repository information, matched to your other packages, and might no longer be available in mirrors. And you shouldn’t install an updated version of just one package, because if it pulls in the wrong updated dependencies you could break your install.

I recommend starting with SysRq+E before that, there’s a chance it gets whatever the shutdown was waiting for. And if that fails… REISUB my beloved.

It is very much a puzzle game, but the way its puzzles are structured involves exploration.

I’d generally say it’s a rule discovery puzzle game, which is a searchable term, structured in a metroidvania style. I love rule discovery games, the core idea is that the game doesn’t tell you the rules, and discovering the rules that govern gameplay is part of the puzzle.

People looking up alternatives doesn’t mean they actually want to use them. Switching to an alternative necessarily means some pains, in terms of changed interface, functionality, and community. You can’t just magically switch between platforms and have all the people follow you there, and that’s a dealbreaker for many.

As far as I know, the fediverse is growing, just not explosively. We can hope that at some point it reaches a threshold that convinces a lot of people to move over, cementing it as a “proper” platform.

Rain World is brutally uncompromising, but there’s a certain kind of satisfaction in that.

If you’re interested in recommendations based on Animal Well, some games with similar puzzle style would be Tunic, Toki Tori 2 and Outer Wilds (be careful with spoilers for those kinds of games)

I don’t remember what the shell and terminal emulator situation looked like, but I do remember that the installer specifically asks you to choose how you want to partition, so it seems unfair to me to complain about it being the “default”.

I put it on my laptop, which I barely use, and just had it still running Win10 until the SSD died. It seems really nice for that purpose, to just get a quick and easy install for a secondary device, while keeping access to everything else I like about Arch.

CachyOS is more than just a nice installer, they also have additional repos with packages built with optimizations for specific architectures and some simple utilities to make common operations easier.

It’s still fundamentally Arch with extras, but I think that’s mostly a good thing.

I do think the R6 Siege situation is a bit different, to my knowledge it was about Ubisoft adding a new cheaper “Starter Pack” option that lets you access a multiplayer-first game on different terms. It seems scummy to give users playing the same game on the same servers different terms on different storefronts.

I would say that the technical details are a separate thing and I don’t condone gnome forcing CSD in Wayland ;D

Though apps using GTK is another case of having choices, this time for the developers of individual apps.

IIRC 2038 is when 32-bit integer Unix time will hit the limit and overflow, so anything that isn’t updated to use 64bit time will break in some ways, same story as Y2K.

We never needed more.

I might be wrong, but I think that’s too early for me - I’d like 120fps at 1440p in a game like Portal 2 as a regular mid-to-high end experience, and I’d like to have room for funky stuff (portals will already have some funky cost).

The issue to me is that it’s a nonsensical competition for better graphics, without considering the actual experience, and instead of solving the root causes people are treating performance as the issue to attack by reducing fidelity, framerate and resolution, and filling in the gaps.

It’s funny, thinking about it. Back when hardware was weak game developers figured out they can keep textures at low resolution and layer them with differently scaled textures, or straight up noise, to make them look more detailed up close. Now we’re basically doing the equivalent of that on the whole screen, cutting down on the image and filling in the gaps, and it’s become a competition of who can do it better.

That all sounds reasonably fair, but it seems like my point still stands, since nowhere do you actually put the blame with GNOME - it’s the distros choosing it.

I’m also not sure if I’d agree with you in general, it might not be worth bothering too much with users who will immediately dismiss Linux because the distro they chose ships with a DE that has a slightly nonstandard workflow. That sounds like a person that refuses to try or research anything and will probably either make a nuisance of themselves or leave for other weird reasons anyways.

they doubled down and said, “You’ll use your computer our way, and you’ll like it!”

I think that’s a dumb way of looking at it, because you’re not forced to use GNOME on Linux. Just because tiling window managers exist, or scrolling ones, and some even more specific ones (like gamescope, which doesn’t even display multiple windows), doesn’t mean they’re trying to force you to use your computer their way.

Having diverse options is good, it doesn’t lock you into doing things a specific way, it gives you more options of how things work. The only thing that sucks is that they made the change as an update, so previous users might be excluded, but even then it’s opensource, the developers can (and should) change the software to fit their vision, and if you don’t like it you can fork it (which people have done with gnome).

I feel like translating country names is a bit icky, like translating somebody’s name to a local language, feels like cultural erasure… But it seems like a necessity when certain names can’t be written in other alphabets or even pronounced in certain languages.

Oh lord, I think they’re bundling it with a steam link and calling that a steam deck too