@TrayKnots what is SteamOS then?

Separation off concerns is the only fair artument i see there.

why do you need to switch to Windows in the first place?
I remember playing SE a while ago on my Linux system without any problems.

@Lensflare i found it quite nice, how factorio did it. They don't have timers, but there are achievements, when finishing certain things within an amount of time.

one thing i learned from making small games and also from friends, who are game devs is:
you either design a game with Multiplayer in mind, or you don't.
Adding Multiplayer to an already far in development game is neither good game design nor easy to accomplish.

@Lensflare but it's also quite rewarding.

type erasure took me a while to understand too, but yeah at some point i realized it pretty much just duck typing

@spoiledgoods can confirm, Problems can be difficult sometimes.

i can live with that. Especially if it angers people like you.

You should try russian roulette. Everybody i asked says it's 100% safe.

@retoor yeah no that's absolutely a thing, it's just an old brother device. Check out the Brother DCP-7055, thats the one i have.

@retoor it is, because that's exactly what i do 👌
One thing to note is, usually you want to buy old stuff that was aimed at small businesses and the like, this stuff is built to last and not optimized to hell and back.
Most of my electronics are used and sometimes even ancient.
One example is i got myself an old laser printer for like 20EUR. It is so old, that it only prints monochrome and is dumb as fuck (in terms of features). But it doesnt matter, because it works reliably and is always there, when i quickly want to print some shit. It does exactly what it's supposed to.
Same story with other things like old Networking switches, wifi routers, monitors, speakers, etc.

more often than not, that used thing you've bought will also last longer, since it already stood the test of time and still works.

@devRancid that's okay, people still put up with eclipse.

@jestdotty ive seen zed, it's pretty cool.

And about the git thing, i'm with the terminal people on that one.

the alternative would be serious putty. And you really don't want to mess with serious putty.

@blindXfish yeah i agree on that one. Visual studio is a bloated PoS.

@blindXfish .. on Windows Desktop.

And even there, you have something like Steam, where everything is run via their setup system, the microsoft store, where stuff is just packaged to be run in-store.
MacOS with their stores (and homebrew), a few installers maybe.
Linux, Android & iOS, that run almost exclusively via different Package Manager and App Store solutions.

So yeah... definitely not 95%. Not even close.

i mean to be fair, installers slowly but surely are getting out of fashion, while being replaced by packaging solutions used in app stores and launchers.

@kiki Mono be like:
"Am i a joke to you?"

would be funny if you can derail the scammers script by just saying: "oh yeah that was me, dont worry"

signed this the day it came out.

Fuck it.

If AAA game devs don't feel comfortable not screwing over their own customers, maybe they should not sell their games in the first place. Any half decent game dev makes sure regardless, that the game can be played after EOL, which this thing is about.

Sure, their propaganda mill will be turning for a while, and when (if) stuff changes, they will go back to doing business as usual.

It's time for change for the big boys.
Enough line go up.

@Lensflare It's a medical condition

In contrast i feel the Gitlab CI stuff quite nice to work with.

Why would they? They took some already working thing, modified it slightly and shipped it.

And people like you and me use that stuff regardless of it being a steaming pile of shit. So their calculation was right.

They literally have no incentive of doing it any different 😂

@lorentz yeah i always felt, accessing subvectors with these was kinda weird. Good to see i'm not the only one haha 😂

@kiki you missed the point.
Unless you do some niche or arcane shit, you don't need to run more than one OS on your machine.

so i guess it's time for coffee to go

@Lensflare yes, essentially every business, that wants to showcase stuff on screens can use TVs. You'd be surprised how big that market is actually.

@devRancid i'd also suggest to try out wine first. there are a lot of ways to do it hassle free.

as usual: if you buy TVs that are aimed at Consumers.

I found that if i instead buy used stuff that is aimed at small to medium sized businesses, i not only get hardware that is just doing whatever it's designed to do, lasts long due to available replacement parts and general build characteristics, but in some cases is even cheaper.