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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space News Network is No Man's Sky but you're a roving journalist, blasting bandits while trying to keep your subscribers happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much doubt that, given it has more content than most games, and far more than what was ever promised originally. It even does have an ending. And weekly community expeditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space News Network is No Man's Sky but you're a roving journalist, blasting bandits while trying to keep your subscribers happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So have you just not heard anything about No Man’s Sky since 2016? It’s weird having an opinion that is a decade out of date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  App images make modding much harder depending on the app, and flatpaks practically remove that as an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, that’s just GoG’s problem itself. GoG refuses, for some reason, to require developers to ship distro-agnostic versions of their game so half the games are stuck in time with library requirements from a decade ago it expects the system to provide. Which it doesn’t. And because these are third-party installers and not from the package manager they can’t request the package manager to install the library versions they need. And even if they could most distros explicitly will not allow that given the security risk of using outdated libraries.

  This could be solved by breaking the linux philosophy and just require the older insecure libraries to be included with the games; which is the most accurate to their mission statement of preserving and archiving old games, but that requires people on their technical teams, their publisher liaison teams, and probably their legal teams all to understand linux well enough to have that as a hard requirement with minimal to no legal liabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh hey does that mean they’ll actually ship all the libraries needed to run the linux versions of games released on the platform?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone that cares about security or privacy is working on custom android ROMs since there is no actual benefit to Apple hardware or software at this point in history. Plus you save money buying a Pixel device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using KDE Plasma on Pop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you primarily use the device for gaming and you have higher end hardware causing issues on stable distros, it might just be time to make the jump to an ‘unstable’ one. CachyOS is generally just as beginner friendly and is multi-purpose enough to run any productivity you’ll likely need, while being a little more stable than just a regular arch setup you’re likely to come up with yourself. The real draw is customized packages and kernels for more performance.

  It’s ‘default’ desktop is bleeding edge KDE.

  Generally speaking, as others have said, you’re not going to get up-to-date packages on stable distros, as that’s the entire purpose of said stable distros. Gaming in Linux being good is a relatively new development and massive strides have happened since 2024. As long as you’ve gotten relatively comfortable looking things up, even if those solutions haven’t really worked out for you so far, making the jump to a slightly more up-to-date distro isn’t going to be more difficult of an experience.