The GTK3 port has been in the making for a very long time. Long before anyone even mentioned GTK4. Porting an application to a different GUI toolkit is a lot of work.

Cool concept. I really appreciate the "independence" from the project after the installation. It would be cool, if the author preconfigured some less common DE/WM alongside the ones they package now. I yearn for a distro with a preconfigured tiling WM, so I wouldn't have to use my half broken i3wm setup.

Also what the fuck does the author mean when he says ubuntu is special¿?

There are two ways I read that:

1. Ubuntu is special just to the author. It's their favourite distribution and it holds sentimental value to them. The author doesn't want Ubuntu to change, because they like it just the way it is.
2. Ubuntu is special because of its high popularity between new users. For a long time, Ubuntu was/is suggested to newbies because of its ease of use and solid defaults. The removal of the apps could make the experience of future new users worse, so less people would stick with Linux.

Ubuntu uses their own font family. I think it’s one of the only distributions with its own custom font, but I might be wrong. The Unicode coverage of the Ubuntu font is not very big compared to Google’s Noto font family, which many distributions switched to as default. But it mostly depends on the DE — Gnome uses the Cantarell font, KDE uses the aforementioned Noto font.

Regolith packages preconfigured i3wm (and now Sway) alongside basic utility apps (file manager, image viewer etc.) and GUI configuration manager. Notifications and similar stuff, which you have set up manually in some window managers, works out of the box. I’d call Regolith a full blown desktop environment. Too bad it’s intertwined with apt so much, so porting it to distributions other than Ubuntu and Debian is complicated.

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I very much enjoyed Command line text processing with Coreutils. It helped me when I was writing my thesis, which basically consisted of several (quite long) pipelines. It would have been quite helpful if I’d known awk, so I’ll check this book out!

The web version looks very nice, but the PDF version feels a bit iffy (maybe a bit cheap?) to me — for example there are some bad pagebreaks (e.g. between pages 9 and 10 or pages 14 and 15). How do you create it? Perhaps you should get more hands-on with the typesetting. (I'm no expert on typography, but it would be a shame if your work was detracted from by the little imperfections that some people are sensitive to.)

I was an avid Minecraft player in my teens. It being cross-platform (basically 100 % compatibility) made my switch to Linux quite painless; if Minecraft did not work, I probably wouldn't install Linux.

The game that surprised me the most was Murder by Numbers. It's a very nice hybrid of a visual novel and a puzzle game. When I had more time I played the story mode, and when I didn't I played the challenges.

My biggest disappointments were games from Sony — Horizon and Spiderman. Both of them are verified, but both of them crash at start-up.

I started playing Enderal, a total conversion of Skyrim. I like the deeper RPG mechanics, which the mod adds, although I'm a bit nervous about choosing something wrong and fucking up my character.

The game is set in a different world than Elder Scrolls. I'm not sure I like it as much, but that might be because of the different music.

I am still in school, so I have access to many journals through it. The journals I can’t get access to through school, I look at via Sci-Hub. Fortunately, most journals in my field (in my country) recently switched to an open-access format, so I’ll have to use Sci-Hub only for foreign journals.

This is the library one of the Lemmy summarisation bots uses. It can be used as a CLi utility.

I agree on the Deep Roads. I love the æsthetics. Too bad there’s not much reason to go down there without a blight. If the creators focus more on dwarves, maybe we’ll take a look there again.

Thinking about it more, the only thing I would like is for the game to be well written and fully working on launch.

What made you uninstall American Truck Sim? I played a bit of Euro Truck Sim on my computer and I was satisfied; it's good for what it is.

Thanks! I'll scour my stash of Mass Effect memes for more.

8 DEs aren't enough for you?

They are, but a man can dream. And thanks for the tip!

The fourth one is garbage, it’s an unnecessary addition to a complete trilogy and it caused quite the controversy at the time because it got a lot of stuff wrong about the universe.

Here's a list of all it got wrong.

Lexi and/or Captain Dunn from MEA.

I don't think people who use spaces press spacebar four (or who knows how many) times.

How is Nushell? Is it stable?