I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.

(Although I would not call KDE ugly)

and thought Microsoft was fixing up their filesystem.

NTFS now comes with Copilot integrated, automatically placing your files where you will never find them again.

The Matrix server is a normal Signal client that can encrypt/decrypt messages from your account.

Assuming you trust your server, no. I would not use it on a third party Matrix server.

Sure, I got all my Signal/Telegram chats synced to my Matrix server.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

That explains why my Matrix <-> Signal bridge was complaining about being disconnected.

You can configure Freetube to use an Invidious instance and also add mpv as external player. One of those usually works whenever Google messes with their obfuscation.

PipePipe can also be used on desktop through Waydroid.

Did you never get a replacement by the mainboard manufacturer or AMD?

Speaking of whales, you might like https://games-on-whales.github.io/

It creates virtual displays on the fly and runs completely in the background. Requires a little bit of setup as well as Docker running but it’s pretty neat.

EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.

What’s wrong with Thunderbird/Betterbird?

Bonus: It’s made in Godot and the dev has an interesting dev blog where he shows off how the game works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PeXZleBq4M

It does work via Flatpak, you have to give Freetube the “D-Bus session bus” permission and then put the following in your external player settings (this launches the flatpak mpv):

External player

mpv

Custom External Player Executable:

flatpak-spawn

Custom External Player Arguments:

–host flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv <any mpv arguments you need>

syncing to the clown, none of that

What did that clown ever do to you?

You don’t need Lutris, the itch.io launcher takes care of everything.

As for DayZ, I don’t want to risk playing any competitive games on Linux and getting myself a spurious VAC ban

You only get game bans in DayZ. For what it’s worth, I have been playing DayZ on Linux on and off for years and never got banned.

The official itch.io launcher also works just fine on Linux:

https://itch.io/app

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.itch.itch

DayZ runs out of the box on Steam as well.

“does donald trump have dementia, also how to sort an array in C#”

…the color…blue.

Didn’t expect a fun puzzle game to hit so hard.

You’re saying a piece of art (song, book, movie, game, poem, painting, …) never left a lasting impression on you?

The DLC ending is one of the saddest I have seen in any game.

In case you didn’t know, SOMA has a safe mode in which enemies don’t attack you.

A friend of mine who gets scared at everything finished it for the story in that mode.

Excellent game.

Right click on Baldur’s Gate 3 -> Properties… -> Compatibility

You can either remove the check mark in “Compatibility” completely or set it to “Steam Linux Runtime 3.0”.

Unless your force a Proton version, the game will use the Linux version automatically.