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cerement, to linux in do the Linux/other distros developers play videogames??
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cerement, to linux in do the Linux/other distros developers play videogames??
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video games started LONG before NES or Sega …

  • today’s MMORPGs would’ve developed far later if it wasn’t for all the MUDs developed on *nices
  • roguelikes
  • text adventures and interactive fiction
  • a lot of the classic RPGs got their starts through shareware
cerement, (edited ) to linux in wayland, not even once
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someone jonesing for their daily Windows 11 advertising dosage

cerement, (edited ) to linux in What do you think about this?
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  • Linux Experiment released a whole video this morning comparing packaging formats
  • the main issue with snaps is (generally) not the snaps themselves or the snap daemon, it’s that the Snap Store itself is closed source
    • a combination of rampant enshittification of online platforms, losing faith in Canonical’s direction, and lack of transparency into ranking/promotion/filtering of apps in the Snap Store (there’s already been a few claims that they’ve replaced an already installed native app with a snap package 🤷 )
cerement, to linux in What do you think about this?
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Alpine Linux

cerement, to linux in What do you think about this?
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cerement, (edited ) to linux in What do you think about this?
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  • when this was originally posted, it got a lot of flack because Linux users were unhappy Chris Titus dares to use both Linux AND Windows
  • as @bbbhitz pointed out, “Pointless” was probably a poor choice of words, but Chris’ definition for that tier was basically “distros that install a couple stock packages and give it a new name”
  • as for the Devil tier
    • RedHat for closing their source
    • CentOS Stream because it’s not CentOS
    • Fedora guilt by association (they are actually a separate entity from their founder RedHat)
    • Ubuntu because snaps
  • for Debian and Arch, not only are they good distros on their own, but they’ve each also become parents (and grandparents) to a huge number of offshoots
  • for gaming
    • for beginners, Linux Mint is a really popular place to start just in general
    • for the more experienced, options like Nobara or customizing SteamOS
cerement, (edited ) to linux in Reading .mcn files?
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  • hexdump comes stock with most distros, no editing features, but hexdump -C filename will at least let you see what’s in the file
  • from control characters and control codes, it looks like everything is separated by a set of three NUL characters (`
cerement, to movies in Are film trailers getting worse?
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they’ve been giving away so much in the trailer you no longer need to watch the movie – save yourself a couple hours and sticky feet

cerement, to movies in Are film trailers getting worse?
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cerement, to linux in A new pilot will investigate the use of Forgejo (A non profit FOSS alternative to github and gitea) in german schools
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from a couple random comments, it sounds like the migration to Codeberg is relatively nice – if you want to do the interim step of getting out of GitHub and worry about personal instance at some later point …

cerement, to comicstrips in Life is just a bright shiny day
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they already do – camp robbers

cerement, to linux in What is the best distro for gaming?
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“all distros are Linux/GNU at heart” – Alpine has entered the chat

cerement, (edited ) to datahoarder in That many people need old Ubuntu installations?
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got curious – 20.04 LTS still has more than a year of support left

cerement, to linux in Linux Distribution Timeline
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also missing UwUntu …

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