I mean the answer is pretty easy: video games generally have a long shelf life and no maintenance at some point after they’re released.

And it still works and looks great today!

Played a good bit of this last night. Not bad.

Reminds me of Terra Nil, which honestly I prefer— but this is good in its own way.

Because it’s a common phrase and because one can accept that people have a name for their deity even if you believe that deity doesn’t really exist.

I’ll remember that in case I drop it into a boiler.

Eager but tentative?

Usually tentative means they are not so eager.

What’s with that disaster of colorized text?

I’d say it’s both, yeah.

But also user demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.

They use k-cups so being inconsiderate is a given.

I love filter views, no real complaints there except that other people can’t manage to figure out the difference between filtering the whole sheet and setting up a filter view.

Tables seem kind of pointless but better than a separate database app I guess?

Not sure about “little pills”, do you mean the drop downs? That’s in validation, and it’s a little odd but better both in interface and function than Excel. There’s really only one version and two ways to do it: “data validation” and “insert drop-down” (the latter is just a shortcut to the former, but with relevant options selected). Checkboxes are the same (both live in the insert menu).

I’ve never known the “paste style” menu, I mostly use keyboard shortcuts when pasting. I might be misunderstanding what you’re describing there.

Some of it is just familiarity but I found Google sheets to be a breath of fresh air and still find Excel just painful.

Although Google has really gotten pretty cluttered lately as they add features and slap them in whatever menu they pick at random.

Similar but with an interface that refuses to do anything new for 20 years.

I felt a compatibility module wouldn’t offer nearly as good performance/efficiency as a game designed to run on Linux/ext4 - but are you saying that playing via Proton is fine?

Can confirm, it’s fine. There’s some variability of course but taken as a whole the environment is comparable in terms of performance. As long as you’re not playing AAA competitive games that have anti-cheat you are going to be fine with few exceptions. And there are plenty of examples where the proton experience works better than the native.

Check protondb to get a realistic idea of how well games will work.

It’s dropping as in “experiencing a fall in numbers” (back to normal levels) not as in “removing from support” nor as in “delivered to the world”

They may have removed it from the reporting or corrected for some previous change in reporting methodology.

I like having all my games in one place, on a platform where Linux “just works” and I don’t have to fuck around with it.

Eliminating third-party launchers sounds great in theory until you have 20 different half-baked second party launchers that serve no purpose other than being a barrier between me and the games.

The first is the only way that makes sense, the second too easily becomes post-grease-queue-el. Which is horrible.

What’s the difference? Those read the same to me. Do you mean that you want a strong gap between “gre” and the S in S-Q-L?

I find them okay, but I am much more concerned with consistent fonts than with a variety of decorative fonts.

The default fonts feel very old-fashioned though.

Moving this to a top-level comment.

Overleaf is fantastic, as long as you are okay with non-WYSIWYG document editing and learning some LaTeX.

Typst is also worth looking at, as a similar concept. It uses a very different language than LaTeX, but feels more in touch with modern sensibilities.

As long as you’re okay with an interface that slavishly clones the terrible MS-Word ribbon bar.