Sigh
November 30, 2021
gamers, talking to Ubuntu devs: we want better performance and access to bleeding-edge drivers
Ubuntu devs: snaps?
gamers: no, performance and drivers
Ubuntu devs: snaps!
gamers: bye
Go get COME ALIVE! by angela he
October 9, 2021
Angela's games are always super cute, her art is top notch, and the music selections are perfect.
when the campy horror movie you're watching w your crush comes to life, will you be able to survive the night? Available for Windows, macOS, Linux
Source: COME ALIVE! by angela he
Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them – The Verge
October 8, 2021
The hits, they just keep coming. Why wasn't this opt-in instead of a semi-hidden, poorly named opt out checkbox? Gee, I wonder.
Suggested search results from "trusted partners."
Source: Firefox's address bar has ads now, but you can disable them - The Verge
ha ha
October 4, 2021
What does the fox say? Oooof. Mozilla Is Testing Microsoft’s Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine
September 21, 2021
And to think part of the reason I've been a Firefox user for so long was because it and Ubuntu gave me a way to escape Microsoft.
So so so disappointed.
Mozilla is currently experimenting with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine for Firefox, according to a report by Ghacks. A new SUMO search
Source: Mozilla Is Testing Microsoft's Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine
AMA but that
September 20, 2021
Kinda funny how 505 had an AMA about Bloodstained, but nobody was allowed to ask about what the supposed "technical reasons" the native Linux version were dropped for.
(Yes, I know it's because 505 lied and there weren't any)
Firefucked
September 17, 2021
Oh Firefox. Oh, my sweet summer child, this will probably kill you.
My anger is palpable and my disappointment immeasurable.
Snaps suck. They are slow to load, hard to manage, have exactly zero GUI apps for handling them, and to top it off, the second keystroke in every snap I've ever tried to use gets delayed 10-15 seconds. They're useless and nobody needed yet-another-package-type.
On the bright side, Chrome installs a .deb and doesn't require any snaps at all, so I have somewhere to switch to that doesn't suck.
Ubuntu 21.10 is making the Firefox Snap app its default browser. A feature-freeze exception requests the Firefox Snap be seeded in the Ubuntu ISO image.
Source: Ubuntu to Make Firefox Snap Default in 21.10 - OMG! Ubuntu!
Dumb Evolution Tricks: GPG mail to someone with problematic keys
August 13, 2021
If you've tried to send out encrypted email in Evolution, you might've run into trouble getting it to use the right GPG key, or had problems where GPG can't find or rejects the trust on the key. There's an easy but not obvious way to get around these problems!
Evolution will use the GPG certificate associated with a contact to encrypt mail to that contact first, so if you add the key under the "Certificates" tab on that person's contact, it'll just use it, and you can avoid any lookup difficulties caused by GPG.
Introducing Steam Deck
July 16, 2021
Steam Deck is a powerful handheld gaming PC that delivers the Steam games and features you love.
Source: Introducing Steam Deck
It's pretty, isn't it? Valve's newly-announced handheld is a slick little system that will hopefully spur lots of interest in Linux gaming and light a fire in the mini-gaming laptop market where before your only choices were GPD, GPD, and GPD.
I'm slightly (um VERY) annoyed that it's running Arch instead of Ubuntu - it BETTER not be because someone was being a dick about snaps and wanted Valve to promote them by demanding they use them - but I'll definitely be getting one ASAP.
If you've never used Valve's touchpads before, they are wonderfully accurate and easy to pick up. It's basically the same as playing a game on your phone. Having two of them, and a second physical stick, and a physical D-Pad, is pretty sweet.
Anyway, we'll see what happens with it - I'm quite hopeful that it will kick off interest in native versions of Linux games, and will clearly push Proton to new levels of compatibility, but I don't know if Valve has the same amount of power that Nintendo does to really compel devs to do the work to support the console properly.
Let's hope they do.
Resident Evil Village + Proton Experimental
May 8, 2021
Turns out, reports of this game being borked were greatly exaggerated. It doesn't quite work perfectly yet, but it will. :)
