Quoting: DesumTechnically, this is more of a free culture project than a free software one, much like FreeDoom.

Are you sure you are on the correct article? Hands of Necromancy assets are very much all rights reserved as far as I'm aware, although the engine source code is open. So, specifically free software, not free culture, not that there is anything wrong with that.

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Huh, they really wanted to make Pokemon 20% cooler.

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Quoting: CatKillerThe idea that vast numbers of gaming Macs exist and are being miscounted as Windows machines seems like wishful thinking on the part of Mac users.

Also, even if they were being miscounted as Windows machines due to running some variant of Wine, then so what? Why would that be an indication that they need any more support than they are already getting?

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Found out that the Flathub version apparently doesn't play nice with my RX 7600 XT when trying to use EEVEE Next, but the standalone package does work. Probably just a matter of the Mesa version in Freedesktop being slightly older than the one on my system. So, if you run into crashes, try the blender.org version.

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Let it be known that I challenge Liam to a duel! My Shining Kuneko and Ramtasm will throw you in a Binvader!

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Here's a potentially quite wild and controversial opinion. While libdecor is indeed a simple enough way to solve the client side decoration problem for games and especially since you get it for free with SDL you may as well go for it, I think with games I probably wouldn't really need those decorations if someone did omit them.

Moving a window around without decorations requires just Super pressed down and the GNOME activities view adds close buttons to windows anyway, and a quick Alt-F4 or a regional equivalent kills windows quite nicely too. Not to mention you're probably going to have an Exit button in your in-game menu anyway.

I'm sure there are probably plenty of people that would be annoyed by missing decorations though.

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We should not suddenly change terminology to imply that an open source game must have free assets too. It's already tough enough to get developers to understand that they can release just the program source code to their games and still keep making money on the assets, so muddying the waters even more is just plain unnecessary.

Even without free assets, releasing this software as open source provides significant longevity and preservation, not to mention opening the door to expansion and derivative works. Frankly, for that reason the people that made the software open source deserve some copies to be bought.

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I guess a potential new practice ought to be checking the hash of the tag pull against that of the release tarball to see if those release tarballs contain anything not part of the source repository. Or just building off of tags in the first place, so at least any hostile code needs to be in the source repository and thus publicly visible.

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And now not on Steam, since people weren't happy with the bundling of DLC and issues with linked accounts.

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Quoting: LoftyChecking your pc info reveals you are a gnome user and as such i expect 'i don't need any extensions' kind of reply but from what i have seen lots of gnome users do.

Actually my response is that I don't care about the flame war. How much you need to customize your DE isn't really the point of the article, the point of the article is that customizing your DE with third-party extensions, regardless of how much or how little you feel like you need to do it, exposes you to the risk of poorly written or malicious third-party code.

My comment was simply about that while the specific problem that the article was about could possibly solved, albeit with significant amounts of work, a similar problem can happen with GNOME extensions too and that solving the problem comes with caveats that some people might not find palatable.

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