GNOME is a great desktop environment. Ignore the people here who are whining; there’s always a bunch in any DE-related Linux post, regardless of the DE being discussed.

But, just to add to the discussion, KDE is the only real alternative as far as feature parity is concerned (that isn’t just a fork).

Love those games so much, incredibly hyped to hear we might get a sequel.

Why post this here?

You should get your feet wet with Github, first; then you can browse the relevant good first issues for the backend.

Andrew of All Gas no Brakes/Channel 5 fame is a British journalist? Love it.

Hi, game developer here.

If you’re just starting out, Unity is a bit more mature and established - and it works fine on Linux. There are also quite a few resources for getting started that apply to the current version out there (E.g. It isn’t rapidly changing too much at the moment for someone just starting out). It also has the best mobile support of any engine out there, so if you want to test your game on a phone that’s your best bet.

Godot is popular among hobbyists, and could be a fun start, but I don’t know of any serious games being made in it yet (having said that, I know quite a few folk who are currently evaluating it, so maybe in a few years).

But, really, my recommendation is to focus on learning a programming language first. Figure out the ins and outs of basic C#, then start learning about an engine that utilizes it.

I’m only saying this because it sounds like you’re looking into how to build games, not just one specific role of the process: if that’s the case, starting with some basic C# tutorials/classes would help a lot.

Once you know the be basics it will be much simpler to work with an established Engine, and jumping from one to another will also have less friction.

Finally, remember that scratch is a good tool to learn about how to program. If you’re feeling like you’ve mastered it, now is a great time to move on to a proper programming language.

They’re telling you to pay or leave. I just don’t get why you think it should be free - who is paying for it?

Because matrix is an open ecosystem, most companies that use it just deploy a server and then contribute nothing back to the spec (be it funding or code). Individuals seem to be in the same boat.

Like, I’m not trying to be dense, here - what is the correct path? Where is this money supposed to come from? (I’m genuinely not trying to incite an argument with this comment; I’m just passionate about the Matrix spec and am frustrated with the responses to this post)

And please don’t give me the “user donations will be enough” drivel - I’ve been donating (a small amount) to the matrix foundation for years, even though I run my own server and don’t rely on them for any infra, and know quite well how many users are with me in the lowest tier of contributors room. Spoiler: it’s less than 300.

Or people could support the community by making an account there? Community servers list here.

That’s only on their server, you can send whatever you want on your own.

Well, that’s literally the point - the majority of costs for them are hosting related, so they’re trying to push people to use their own or other servers, which is overall better for the health of the federated network.

It’s not enshittification if you were never paying for it/supporting in the first place, lol.

Yeah I agree with all of this. Shame there isn’t a better option at the moment, but they’re the lesser of a bunch of evils - so I guess I’m sticking with them for a bit longer.

Oh, my bad: I thought bandcamp was part of the major services. Shows what I know 😅

Bandcamp is pretty good, though. Especially on Bandcamp Fridays where all the profits go to the artists. Plus, I like getting FLACs.

Please note that I wasn’t passing judgement with my comment, I’m just stating that it will happen with pretty much all Linux distributions.

For example, when upgrading major Debian versions, the same will happen - but you’ll usually get thrown into a full screen TUI with interactive buttons asking you how to proceed. So it isn’t really possible to leave the system in a non-functional state.

Definitely check out a different, stability first distro. However, note that you will then have the problem of software being old when you want a new feature!

New optional dependencies also happen in other distributions, just happens a lot less as they aren’t rolling release distributions.

Learning to parse terminal output for what’s relevant is a good and sometimes necessary skill.

I’ve been using arch for almost a decade, and haven’t had the system break.

I also don’t use aur helpers as I don’t like or trust them - I do tend to read PKGBUILDs before using them.

Still shocked that OP thought a new opt-depends was “lost in pages and pages of changelogs”.

First paragraph of the post states:

Administration is currently done by the same team responsible for Lemmy.World, and the same rules that apply to Lemmy.World also apply to PieFed.World.

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That’s because most of them are playing F2P video games on their mobile devices.

Not trolling at all. I’m a game developer, so I was curious to hear about instances of game devs using kernel level anticheat to harvest people’s personal (and identifiable) data to sell to data brokers.

Glad to know there aren’t any examples of it outside of people screaming about capitalism - which is, let’s be honest, quite indicative of the Lemmy experience these days.