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davet91

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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…