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  • GNOME vs KDE Plasma in 2024: which one is better for Linux beginners?

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  • Beginners using vanilla GNOME

    Beginners will never really be in a position where they'll be using vanilla gnome, so that argument is kinda moot. And even if they did, those features are literally one extension away...

    will quickly miss features like a minimize button and certainly tray icons.

    Tray icons don't exist in gnome's ecosystem, it only becomes problematic once you get third party applications. The real problems are the minimize/maximize, desktop icons, and panel on top when coming from windows. Although these days with the ever increasing phone use people might just be more at ease with gnome's workflow anyways.

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • It annoys me too that Valve is getting most of the credit for Proton while most of the work is actually done in winehq, dxvk... I'm sure Valve pays for some development here and there, and greases some developer wheels, but the main thing they do is being a front end for consumers.

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • Yes.

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • My point being that while valve itself has only 350 employees, it subcontracts far more than that.

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • These stats don't include subcontractors and as such they're very misleading. For example, who do you think produces the GPUs inside the steam deck? Hint: it's not Valve.

  • Apex Legends gets the ol' Steam review bomb treatment. The free-to-play shooter is facing blowback from its new cash-only battle pass policy.

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  • This isn't massive flaws that suddenly appeared overnight, or the straw that broke the camel's back, it's purely because they want to get back at the developer. So yes, I think "review bombing" is accurate.

    Don't get me wrong, i dislike enshittification as much as the next guy; but I don't think a game's review should be about what the devs posted on twitter yesterday.

  • Apex Legends gets the ol' Steam review bomb treatment. The free-to-play shooter is facing blowback from its new cash-only battle pass policy.

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  • It's just unfortunate that this is the only avenue for players to make their disagreement felt. Game reviews should focus on the game as a whole and not one single aspect, the more these happen the less steam reviews become reliable to gauge the game's quality.

  • Nintendo pledges "action" over inappropriate use of its characters so players "not made to feel uncomfortable"

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  • This would only serve to advertise their ips, just look at Overwatch. If you really want to fuck with a corporation, the best way is to forget about them.

  • Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

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  • The whole thing never made much sense anyways, machines would be without scrupules and cut off any redundancies like extra limbs, they'd probably just keep your brain in a jar.

  • Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen

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  • Tackling addictive apps to save battery life

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  • If you're addicted to a game, your phone battery is the least of your problems.

  • Vulkan or DirectX on Linux?

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  • Dxvk is usually better, but using vulkan is the better strategic move, you'll increase their vulkan stats and provide QA. Good native vulkan support will beat dxvk every time.

  • Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light

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  • Well yeah, but the problem is typically the people who you don't want you calling you in the middle of night are also the ones willing to call you a few times till you pick up.

  • Linux and public awareness (ads, trailers etc)

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  • Linux only just hit 2% market share

    That's steam players, linux on desktop is estimated at 4%, and 6% if you count chromeos.

  • Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light

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  • Most phones these days allow you to set a DND schedule which you can customize to allow specific numbers for emergencies and people that don't abuse it.

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  • It's not that you can't do it, but rather that it's very much a windows concept, applications on linux don't need to hog your attention and dig through your data by starting with the OS. On linux you start an application when you need it. Setting up startup applications is usually a bit hard to find simply because it's not a feature that people care much for so you typically have to dig a bit to do it.

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    Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

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  • There's the new UMU launcher that allows running proton outside of steam. Winehq also works fine by itself, at the end of the day proton is just a fork of wine with a few patches and relies on plenty of shared components like dxvk and vkd3d.

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  • Blizzard games have always had good linux compatibility. Might change now that they've bought by microsoft though.As for ubisoft games they probably run too, launchers are a pita but they do run, you'll need something like lutris, bottles or heroic launcher to get you started running shit outside of steam, they're not necessary but they make things simpler.

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  • The problem is that you're trying to do shit like if you were still on windows. Linux doesn't really have startup applications, we use daemons for everything that needs to start with the OS, everything else is meant to be launched manually.

    However you can still do what you're asking for, and it'll depend on the DE not the distribution. Ubuntu and Pop OS use gnome that has an option to set startup programs in gnome tweaks.