TBH for me, between the sales and the Linux compatibility it’s still worth it even if I’m effectively renting the games.

That’s not great, but it’s not ‘company thriving under a very literally fascist regime’-bad.

Steam being a US-based company kinda put a damper on my willingness to shell out the moolah for games I might not even play …

I use xfce4-terminal, lxterminal is also good for the same reasons. The nice thing about them is that their configs are very stable (this can be a bit of an issue with KDE, e.g. I recently had to redo my editor themes for Kate because the old ones weren’t compatible anymore), and they save system resources by letting all terminals run in one process. Running terminal windows in separate processes might protect you from crashes, but even though I use terminals heavily I just never have terminal crashes. And they’re simpler to configure than e.g. urxvt.

A (more) reputable alternative is the Internet Archive at Archive.org, best known for the archiving of websites at web.archive.org.

Last I checked, archive.org usually didn’t work when articles are paywalled. Has that changed?

And the sales!

Who asked Gearbox to spend twice the budget on it? Also, many AAA games are way too long these days.

Thanks, not sure where I got alt+tab from - I think ctrl+tab is actually the more common shortcut for tab switching nowadays.

I’m a programmer and I still use Kate mostly for notetaking and configuration editing. I tend to use other editors like VS Code when I’m doing more involved stuff.

As a years-long Kate user, I’d assume the answer to most of those features is “no”. It’s still mostly a code editor, not an IDE.

Neat. I’ve been using kate as my standard text editor for years, mostly because of the session management and because you can give it a pretty minimalist interface with some configuration (something that similar editors like Geany tend to struggle with). I honestly didn’t know that there was a searchable tab list, I’ve been using alt+tab ctrl+tab (which already has a much better UI than many other editors) but that definitely gets unwieldy when you have a ton of tabs open (which is always … don’t even ask how many browser tabs I have).

Measuring these uncustomized directly after booting is a pretty flawed metric, especially with something like KDE that has a lot of features that can be enabled or disabled. i.e. many features that are built into KDE might need external programs that are not included in the base install of LXQt or XFCE, and some stuff might get reused when you start opening LibreOffice, Firefox or a text editor (AFAIK this is definitely a thing if you use a lot of KDE/Qt applicatons). The desktop comparisons I saw during KDE 5.x had it at not that much more RAM use than XFCE, and I doubt this changed that much with KDE 6. Maybe something about Wayland, though? e.g. XWayland might eat additional resources. Also, the baseline RAM use seems really high when even XFCE uses 1.4GiB by default.

For the record, I use LXQt, not KDE.

I think Github is a relatively simple issue. There isn’t really a shortage of european (or just selfhostable) alternatives, and the way git works means that most contributors have complete local copies of the codebase. TBH I worry more about the ability of american contributors to continue working on a project if the code is hosted in europe - basically a lot of open source developer teams could end up being split or shut down entirely. And the bigger projects like Linux and a lot of the intermediate layers between the Linux kernel and applications are majorly backed and developed by american companies and their employees.

Rightwingers don’t usually care about whether immigrants have citizenship or not.

I’d like to point out that I’m european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

It’s not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here …