And Ai tools are scraping the web… good lord.

I am not talking about the IGN article, but about the link you gave me.

I don’t know…

Just the first lines of the linked article says what I said, having a monopoly isn’t illegal on itself. Only abusing the dominance is.

Which paragraph or lines do you specifically speaking of? Its a long text, so quoting or pointing the part you refer to would be good.

That’s not the statement we are discussing as what he said.

We could wake up one morning and find out there’s a $10 monthly fee to access Steam’s “services” including every game you ever purchased.

When did this ever happen on any game console, or service ever? Isn’t this some kind of “fear mongering”? Also wouldn’t this be illegal? Because we purchased the game and Valve would effectively take all access away for all games. I don’t think your argument what could happen is warranted.

Having a “Monopoly” that occurred naturally isn’t illegal. Misusing the position and eliminating any competition is illegal. Besides that, the monopoly situation is open and there is competition. They just suck. Imagine filing Nintendo a lawsuit for having a monopoly in handheld consoles…

I remember when this project was in young age and I saw it the first time. I thought to myself “ah yeah, it’s nice to have but one of those projects no one will care in the industry”. And here we are, Godot (12y) rivaling industry giant like Unity (20y).

I had to look at the scroll bar to see how long this is still going.

Does anyone know if it is working on Linux (or Steam Deck)?

Congratz on the publishing. :-)

fingers crossed

(sorry these are my engagement replies when I have nothing more to say, got the habbit from YouTube)

Microsoft trained people into believing that updates are dangerous.

Such an advice can only come from a Windows user…

I never had this issue since I use GIMP decades ago. But I know in older GIMP versions (and I mean up to relatively recent versions) loading can take very long if you have ton of fonts. I don’t know how long it has been since you tried it out. There was attempts to asynchronously load fonts and other optimizations to make it start up fast. At least for me GIMP starts… let me test it again… in less than a second. Having a fast drive plays definitely a role here too.

And it depends what method you used to install. If it was Snap on Ubuntu in example, well that is on Snap most probably.

I use GIMP since 2.8 version, which is ages ago. Used it to edit my photography, to create price tags for my local shop, create web banners, memes… lot of memes, editing pixel graphics, and more.

To be honest it was not a good experience editing photography, especially as it didn’t have some standard features like layer effects. And the missing standard features like shape tools and such is also a big deal for me. Also for printing the price tags the color space was a problem too, as it didn’t support CMYK. I also wish there was a simple “record and playback macros” functionality, which I saw in Photoshop years ago.

All in all these points and many other are addressed or are being addressed right now. GIMP is still not as good as Photoshop and there are pain points. But it is improving and already has improved ton of a lot.

Windows-only,

There are new attempts of patching WINE to make modern Photoshop run on Linux. It’s not fully there, but looks promising: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.1

Or if you want scream like a toddler, then use an appropriate platform like X (apparently we don’t call it Twitter anymore).

Which games do not start as an example? And is it just Steam update or is anything else in play here? If others don’t have the problem, then its hardly Steams fault. We simply have no clue about your system…

I have several hundred hours in Paladins. The game has some unique features, but it suffers from some issues it had. Someday it stopped working on Linux. Also the developers stopped updating and working on the game, as far as I know, so it’s effectively dead.