The thing is, Valve wouldn’t even need to open source the client. If there was an official programming interface as an API to connect to (with online checks to verify off course), then people could build their own clients. The cool thing would be, only features they want to have and with the GUI toolkits and interface the way they want it could be possible. Totally open source too, at least on the client part. Maybe the official API and client could only do some stuff, not everything; in example selling or trading items or buying games would be not possible, but stuff like starting a game. This alone would be awesome.

Once gamescope even helped me recognizing my gamepad for a very specific game on Steam, which otherwise just didn’t want to. I think you can use gamescope without Steam too.

Proton builds and is based on bunch of Open Source software such as WINE. Valve cannot, even if they wanted to, make it closed source. The Steam client itself is closed source, so this is a decision Valve can make.

I do this too btw, when installing new os I always put the old drive out as a backup. You could make a present with cat girl ears xD wish you good luck. And btw also good luck on Linux.

and my gf a few weeks ago

Most people loose their gf when switching to Linux. So congratz on your new gf too. :D

While I wish there was an Open Source client, I can only imagine why Valve does not want that. First, it would help fakers and scammers too. Steam has a Scammer problem. Secondly, it could help the competition. At least an official API would go a long way, to enable the community to write their own Open Source client based on the API.

I don’t think anyone would think you were a fanboy, just beacuse KDE has ton of configuration and customization. That’s the opposite of GNOME. I always think of GNOME like Apple, who decides what you can and cannot do, what you are allowed to. I used GNOME 2, then Unity, then GNOME 3 all the way from Ubuntu 2008 to what, 2020 (I forget when I switched to different distro for the first time).

You are not the only one. Its a taste. I personally like the KDE look the most, its beautiful to me. No other desktop environment looks this good.

What a banger release! Last time they focused on bug hunting, this time its about features. This ping pong focused development is very nice.

• KRunner Fuzzy Search: Not earth shattering, but welcome. I hope there is a way to dynamically force to enable or disable it. Sometimes fuzzy search can be in the way (I know it from other fuzzy search tools). My recommendation is ~ character to toggle the functionality: "~file" to enable fuzzy in example, if its disabled by default. I may even make a suggestion in the issue tracker, but I don’t know what options they integrated into it yet.

or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Linux + Rust.

I don’t know of a service that tracks all major repositories to calculate a single popularity index. They are not really comparable to each other anyway.

Depending on what type of application you search for, I think “Flathub” could be one major source. It’s a pretty popular “platform” and not dependent on a certain distribution. There are “Trending” and “Popular” categories too. It’s excellent to find some new software (or to remind an older one exist) in my opinion. You don’t even need to install the Flatpak and can do it from Archlinux repositories (or the AUR if you prefer).

I have on my old phone still a custom Android /e/OS. It’s a “deGoogled” variant of Android 12 on my S7 Edge. And if I ever buy a new phone again, it will be a direct Linux operating system (I know that Android technically uses Linux as its Kernel) or again an ungoogled custom Android. But as someone who doesn’t do much with the phone anymore, I probably won’t.

It’s got an awful, hard-to-remember command interface

Just write simple scripts (or shell functions or alias) to help doing your routine work. Then you don’t need to remember the commands quirks and only have to remember your own solutions quirks.^^ I wrote such a complex script to help me with youtube-dl / yt-dlp and need to do this with ffmpeg too.

I wonder how much storage I’m going to save converting my mp3 library to opus

Depend on the source and output quality you have. Also do not forget conversion from lossy into lossy format will degrade quality too, even if its most of the time not noticeable. If you have them all in constant 320 kbit/s, then you could probably get a good chunk of space without sacrificing quality much.

As for the software recommendation, it would be good to know what operating system you are on. Windows, Android, iOS, Linux PC?

Nice!

I have thought about that, but if you delout todo.txt large-folder, the large-folder would probably be too easy to hit. ;-)

Or (like in old games) large folders are “heavy”, same size, but needs more hits. And if so, size should be relative to the smallest files (or biggest file).

I have absolutely made several mistakes. :-)

:D It gets worse, especially when you try to be careful. At least for me.

Looks cute. Could be fun to delete files in the bin (holy, I meant the trash can, not /bin). Block color could indicate type of file and they could be differently sized as well. More ideas: Infected files that spread the virus, if you don’t kill it fast enough next to it. And hidden blocks with by files starting with a .dot.

I won’t try it, don’t have Go installed right now and I have some concerns if the programmer did a mistake and something important gets deleted. So be careful playing with fire.

This list sucks. None of my scripts or little programs are listed!! /s

I’m a bit surprised, that the top 9 in the list are all about learning material, documentation, listings and similar stuff. The 10th in the list is a program finally, but its about counting Github stars. At 13 again is project itself, React from Facebook. It is a library. Let’s look where the first application is… oh wait in place 16 we have Linux. Finally something good. Is 25 the first end user application: Vscode by Microsoft. Rust language is at place 65.

But where is a normal end user application, that is not about development, system management or Ai? Ahh, there it is, at place 39, one of my favorite applications: youtube-dl . However I use an alternative version of it: yt-dlp (and put my own script on top of it), which is not far behind at place 45.

Not the most useful, but definitely an entertaining list in my opinion. Sometimes I can be such a stat nerd.

Kali Linux

/s

You have no clue what you saying.