Who?

Could I get a link?

Bazzite on GNOME? Rebasing from GNOME to KDE causes so many headaches. Ask me how I know (yes I’m aware they tell you not too).

It doesn’t even have to be something with subscriptions. Hardware drivers are (usually) freeware too for example. AMD is an unusual exception to that being open source. Then you have IK Multimedia who include a license key for their drivers and charge $50 to transfer it, and won’t even let the new owner of a product pay that if they bought it second-hand. Ask me how I know.

Oh awesome! I looked into rolling my own image to combine Aurora-DX with Bazzite about a month or so ago, but I’ve been really busy since and hadn’t made much of a start. This is really exciting to see, will rebase over on my desktop as soon as NVIDIA gets support.

1. Not a dude, don’t call me that.
2. I haven’t replied to you before now.
3. I never said you were wrong about smartphone usage. You’re acting like it’s a hot take that everyone has a smartphone, as if people that have them can’t/won’t own a PC.
4. Announcing you’re drunk like this is kinda sad friend.
5. If you are, maybe just stop replying in random threads acting like a jerk?

Others have said the same, but why do you believe these things are mutually exclusive? Like yes, everyone has a computer in their pocket, but why does that prevent them from having a desktop, or a laptop, or a tablet? There are 1.75 Billion PC gamers as of 2020, though that includes laptop (and assumedly Steam Deck and associated handheld) users as well. Desktops are still incredibly common and popular computing devices, they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Let alone that laptops are incredibly common too. I genuinely don’t know anyone in my circles that doesn’t have a laptop, a desktop, or both.

Thanks for telling me what I needed to know.

Okay, but are you going to be satisfied with anything short of them saying “I’m anti-LGBT”?

(as far as we have seen)

Speak for yourself? They have repeatedly politicised changes that make the codebase more inclusive. The thread you linked too did get heated, but this seperate PR was perfectly calm and they still locked it, while providing really contradictory reasoning. They say they don’t want to “alienate anyone who’d like to join in the project” but their use of male-gendered pronouns throughout is doing just that…

No, they’re still independent with majority of shares owned by their founders.

I haven’t, no.

Google started blocking them in some way. Even my self-hosted, entirely local-access only instance stopped working.

Oh yea, Baikal is incredibly light and they do publish an arm docker image. You could absolutely tun a bunch of other services off the same SBC if it’s a RPi4 or stronger.

You seem to have a lot of praise for a distro you’ve (rightfully) called out having several red flags?

Bazzite is a collection of packages and default settings, as is SteamOS. My point is that a cross-platform Gamemode replacement could be used by better already established distros like Bazzite.

I mean, I’m all here for a cross-platform Gamemode replacement, but that could be a package, rather than needing to be a whole distro.

Edit: and I meant to add, I’d love to see someone like Lutris develop it.

What makes it more tailored than Bazzite? That includes Lutris, which you can use to install games from GOG, Itch and Epic Game Store, as well as add them to Steam for Gamemode with just one click.

Counterpoint, back before the internet started becoming full of AI slop, it was easy to find those a solutions by searching.

I don’t think it’s E2EE, because it uses open standards, bur you could self-host (including on a VPS if that’s easier) a Baikal server. It does contact sync as well, using the CalDAV and CardDAV standards.