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Comment #46971031
Even as paying customers we still the product somehow.
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Comment #45793138
They do now: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-update-brings-ac...
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Comment #44948828
There are community servers, official matchmaking was killed off.
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Comment #44371646
Makes sense as they invested billions into Rivian to get access to their software.
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Comment #43207633
Firefox has vertical tabs now, but they are still behind a feature flag I think. Using them for some time now and it's working great.
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Comment #42834173
What was the issue with your setup? TV not in game mode?
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Comment #40819638
The new screen option for the 13" model has a much better webcam.
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Comment #40567364
The new Cosmic is written from scratch in Rust with the iced GUI library.
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Comment #39861861
You don't have to run the web interface on the server. You can use Cockpit Client (from flathub) to connect with SSH.
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Comment #39553530
Dolphin has "selection mode" for a while now. I like that in combination with single click open. https://pointieststick.com/2022/08/19/this-week-in-kde-dolph...
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Comment #38181078
Steam fractional scaling should work since their big UI update a few months ago. Try launching Steam with this environment variable: STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=1.5
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Comment #38067073
It's the same. They dropped the "Next" some time ago.
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Comment #37632017
Which compositor are you using? If it's Gnome, the very recent release 45 has improvements running the cursor in a separate thread. I personally run KDE and agree that you can feel…
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Comment #34060680
For Spotify Connect on a headless Pi I can recommend Raspotify: https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify
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Comment #34028135
With GTK you can at least drag the window by grabbing controls in the titlebar.
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Comment #33461486
I set a 10 second timeout for systemd-boot so I don't need to button mash to hit the narrow window of the UEFI bootloader. Another useful feature would be editing kernel parameters…
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Comment #33284723
> Do they still restrict nonfree audio/video codecs? Yes they do. If you don't like to use RPMfusion you could use something like the mpv flatpak from flathub that has all codecs b…
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Comment #32417027
The in-app browsers could use a domain whitelist if parental controls are turned on.
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Comment #30762020
What forces you to use Wayland? Just curious because usually people are forced to stay on X.
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Comment #29962987
There is a setting to always draw on top somewhere in the menubar. Saved me a couple of times.
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Comment #23869762
> It's a pain to use when working with multiple (source independent) projects simultaneously. E.g. a library project and the main project. Eclipse lets you open anything you want t…
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Comment #22975220
JetBrains has their own tool called 'Toolbox' to install and update their software (and Android Studio). With Toolbox you are in control when and what to update and you can install…
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Comment #21659423
You can get every of those devices with Linux support with a bit of research before buying. It's not the fault of Linux if the manufacturer of your hardware doesn't care about the …
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Comment #21348343
The core of Qt is licensed under LGPL which means you can write and ship proprietary software with it. You just need to dynamically link and provide sources for the Qt libs if a us…