I don’t see any rules against posting discussions. The sidebar says: “Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!”

I’d eat it if it were grilled. Cold though? No thanks.

In Canada, some of us eat Kraft Dinner with ketchup. 😅

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I tried it once and didn’t care for it. Opinionated distros are really not my thing.

They were already doing that anyway. What I want to see is a stop to the flood of AI-generated games, and for all the AI-generated clones to get pulled.

I’d say games from the 5th generation of consoles and before are absolutely retro, while games from the 6th and early 7th generation are in a weird zone where they’re not exactly retro, but not exactly modern either.

IMO, I’d say modern gaming started in earnest in 2011, or possibly even 2010. When you think about it, console generations used to average about five years before 7th gen and the recession of 2008, so if the recession didn’t happen, I feel like 8th gen could’ve started around that time.

I know about Backports. It’s just software from the next version of Debian.

Tbh I’ve given up on looking for an AUR equivalent for now.

As a Canadian, I’d love to see that. NHL is basically our Madden or FIFA, and while I don’t even like sports games all that much, I’d like to see some competition in that market.

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I’d say bring back Steam Greenlight, but given how many people are OK with AI sludge, I don’t think that would have the effect I’d want it to.

I think Steam should put a moratorium on genAI use until they can figure out how to manage it better. An outright ban would be even better still, but I’m not sure how well that would go over.

x86 is a standardized, essentially open platform. ARM isn’t. I like that the Steam Deck is just a portable PC that you can install any OS you want on, and I hope the Steam Deck 2 is the same.

What do you want?

I want an AUR, but for Debian. Same thing, PKGBUILDS included, but targeting apt instead of pacman, and Debian’s packages instead of Arch’s. I feel like it would work well since Debian has a stable base, so it’d be easy to build packages against it.

That makes sense. Thanks. :D

You can add Ubuntu PPAs if you really want to, but you will likely run into dependency issues fairly quick.

That’s a terrible idea and shouldn’t even be suggested. I learned that the hard way about 15 years ago trying to get graphics drivers working on Crunchbang.

I remember joystickwake was one of the main things that pushed me to try the MPR a few years ago, when I was testing Debian on my laptop. I got so frustrated with setting up the MPR that I just installed EndeavourOS.

Mesen-CE is another program I use that’s not in Debian’s repos. It’s not too hard to set up without it, but it’d be nice if it were there.

I don’t think vkquake is in Debian’s repos either, but I’m not 100% sure about that. It recently made it into Arch’s main repos, which is cool.

I’m not sure if Faugus Launcher is in Debian’s repos either.

EDIT: I just double-checked. None of these programs are in Debian’s repos, but Faugus is on Flathub.

I’m not sure tbh, but the idea of locking any security updates behind One irritates me.

Ubuntu started locking certain security updates behind Ubuntu One a few years ago. They also won’t stop pushing Snap over native packages.

Thanks for reminding me. That’s another thing I should’ve inb4’d.

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