Go endeavourOS if your first time. Manjaro has a bad track record, as shown at https://manjarno.pages.dev

Who?

point taken, but that’s also an accurate description of cosmic horror

Are you saying that creating literally all the code that make those usability improvements possible is not worthy of praise?

No, but Microsoft and IBM didn’t create that code.

Do you only praise the window washer and not the architect or construction worker who built the building?

That’s not a good analogy. The above-ground building is userspace, the foundation and the window washer are the kernel.

UX is important but so is the literal foundation it’s built on.

I’m not dissenting against that. However, the Linux kernel’s foundation has been built to a point where recent contributions to userspace dwarf that to the kernel. Remember, we’re thanking valve for the modern Linux desktop gaming experience. Next thing I know you’re going to go on a diatribe against System76 as well. When I buy a bauble, you’re going to chastise me for praising the designer instead of the plastic worker.

And again, Valve also contributes to the kernel, so they’re definitely much more worthy of praise, especially without doing Microsoft’s shady stuff.

This has become boring, and I’m not going to reply further unless you come up with an argument worthy enough for a high school debate club, especially since you’ve recently been following Fann Tzu’s “just downvote and don’t reply”.

Both, since WebKit2 was renamed to WebKit the same year iOS Safari started using WebKit2, while WebKit1 was renamed to something something legacy. As an LGPL project, there’s no reason WebKit2 would be restricted to Apple.

And anyways, we do have proof: GNOME Web uses https://webkitgtk.org/, which has clear evidence of using WebKit 2.

WebKit2 is exclusive to Apple devices

No it’s not. In fact, GNOME’s default browser uses WebKit, which is also FOSS since it was forked from the LGPL KHTML.

You mean endeavourOS. Manjaro has a bad record. There’s also a gaming-focused one called Garuda.

Thing is, I hardly see indie devs without footing eat up the $100 Direct fee and publish on steam (unless they’re making low-quality porn). Most of the indie games I’ve purchased garnered a following on Itch first.

I don’t see how RIF could potentially confuse anyone at all. WP Engine, maybe, but I’m not convinced. I mean, the US trademark office did allow the latter to be trademarked.

Valve is the city. Indie devs can easily use itch.io or GOG instead.

Are you saying that creating drastic usability improvements don’t involve work or effort? You’d rather get a CPU 2 generations newer instead of a federated social media platform?

I just heard of Frog today, and I don’t really like it. It just seems like bypassing review. I like the competing proposal of experimental wayland protocols (merged into repository as “experimental” and iterative if 2 weeks pass without anyone opposing) much better.

Well, not all indie games become that popular.

I agree, but could you elaborate on the indie dev part? Why would they have distribution on PlayStation/Xbox?

The point was “People more readily appreciate things that obviously directly affect them.” The only ways that directly affects users are improved execution times and footprints that users won’t notice. So no, we should not all praise MS and IBM like we praise Valve, especially when Valve also contributes to the Linux kernel.

We hate rent seeking. We’ll hate Steam if they raise the profit margin. We’re not talking about rent gouging. Piv’s point is that large publishers dominate the landscape and won’t bulge their prices. This is compounded by Steam’s anticompetitive clause against having a lower price on other platforms. That part is bad. However, the washing machine is well oiled and speedy. Epic’s is the clunky one, unfortunately. The only Steam alternative I’ll happily use is GOG and itch.io, where indies can still publish.

I’m interested, yet that is also obviously unsearchable.

That may have been earlier than Steam’s DRM. Nowadays you need to copy a steam emulator (a few DLLs) into the executables folder as well before sharing.

I’m pretty sure the main selling point was being cheaper.

Userspace affects users much more. I value getting Wayland color management support much more than the following kernel gobblygook lifted straight from https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges:

Summary: This release includes suppor for x86 FRED, which is a new way of transitioning between CPU ring privileves; it also includes support for creating pidfds for threads; support for BPF arenas, which is a sparse shared memory region between the BPF programs and user space; and BPF tokens, which allow delegating functionality to less privileged programs; host support for AMD Secure Nested Paging; support for weighted interleaveing memory policies; support for a FUSE passthrough mode that makes regular file I/O faster; and a new device mapper VDO deduplication target.