Laurel Raven

Was your first clue the account name @NotTheTimCurry?

Because I went with Jellyfin and it worked well… I don’t know if I even checked out Emby, I’m not familiar with it, but I’ve had no reason yet to look for something else

I would say Flatpak is a good choice if you want or need features in the latest version of a package that isn’t in the version Mint runs, which is typically based on the current Ubuntu LTS version (or whichever one was current for the Mint version you’re on).

The main drawbacks are size on disk and the ability to work with other apps and the system, but neither issue is as bad as they’re typically made out to be… If you’re only installing one or two Flatpaks, they’ll seem massive compared to installing the version from apt repos, but that’s because they need to bring in supporting packages which are used by other Flatpaks, so if you use several of them, the space for each is a lot closer to the apt/direct installed version.

And the permissions, which can be annoying if you run into an issue with them, are typically defaulted to something that works correctly for each package, so you likely won’t need to worry about that hardly ever.

But otherwise… Yeah, if you don’t know why you’d want the Flatpak version and it’s in the Mint apt repos/system install, go with system install. Switch to Flatpak if you’re finding features you want missing that are in newer versions.

But they’re shouldn’t really be any reason to use Snaps on Mint.

I remember people hating on DS9 and TNG as well.

Pretty much every series has had plenty of people who just hate it for not being the previous series.

Which is why I ignored people dogging on Discovery and just watched and enjoyed it, same as the rest.

(I’ll admit to being harsh on Enterprise at first, but a lot of it was that intro… Plus, it did take a while to get its feet under it)

The good news is the last episode isn’t exactly canon. The way it was presented as a holodeck adventure, any amount of it could have been made up, and probably was.

Really, all it added to canon was that Riker was hitting up the holodeck a lot during the events of a pre-existing TNG episode.

It truly was about as terrible and insulting a send off as they could have come up with.

I didn’t like the theme song at all at first, but near the end of season 2 it finally started to grow on me.

Then they changed it and made it more poppy in season 3 and I never, ever grew to like that version, it was just awful.

The fact that the movie turned Hammond into a kindly grandfather figure rather than the rich, greedy bastard he was in the book was probably one of the bigger mistakes in the adaptation… The way he’s presented as a visionary who actually cares in the movie makes the cut costs not really make that much sense.

Greedy capitalist fuck who only sees how much money he can milk out of the park like he was in the book? That made perfect sense.

I would be very surprised if they don’t go there eventually, and I’d even bet they’ll try at some point to force lifetime pass owners to switch to subscription

If you ever think you’ve found a corpo that can be trusted, no you haven’t

This has no impact on anyone that actually paid for Plex.

Yet.

They’re going down the pathway to enshittification and very few companies that start down that dark path turn away before they destroy everything good they’d made for everyone, free and paid alike. Maybe that won’t happen here, but from all of the times I’ve seen that same song and dance, I would be finding alternatives to switch to, personally. But, it’s obviously up to you to decide your own comfort level if you want to start now or wait to see how far they go

This makes me glad I went with Jellyfin for my home server

Yeah, those of us who’ve gotten familiar with the terminal often forget that it generally lacks discoverability and getting to the point of knowing how to find things in it can be painful and annoying.

Not enjoying the terminal isn’t a failing. GUIs exist for a reason.

I’ve only had to use Flatseal a couple times to fix wonky permissions for Flatpaks, and I’m not even sure what Bottles has to do with them since Wine has nothing to do with Flatpak to the best of my knowledge

To be fair, I’ve not been involved with it at all, this is just based off what I’ve read recently.

In any event, their anticheat supports Linux just fine and plenty of other games that use it work perfectly fine in Linux

And from what I’ve heard they rendered their build all but unplayable a good while before dropping support entirely.

Now they don’t even need to maintain their own. The community will fix the issues through Wine and Proton if Valve doesn’t do it themselves.

So really, their only excuses are low player count (self inflicted, and at this point companies pulling shit like this is what’s slowing adoption probably as much as fear and unfamiliarity) and cheating (which, why would someone build cheats via Linux if most they’d be making them for are using Windows? Which has rampant cheating all on its own, so their solution is bullshit and useless to begin with)

Why would they need to overhaul their game stack? Rust would run just fine on Linux if they didn’t block it intentionally.

They’re on that lie still?

Cool, cool. I’ve got plenty of games to choose from to care about lazy lying assholes who can’t be bothered to come up with a better excuse than that for why they irrationally hate Linux

How is the Union that gave its people the GDPR is the same Union pulling this?

That’s news to me, I’ve used it the last two years and never had an update completely brick my system, or even soft brick it, and I’ve never had to reinstall the graphics drivers like that

They have the audacity to put up an unintrusive pop-up asking for donation once per year, the two seconds dealing with that out of every 31,536,000 seconds is just way too much

But there aren’t any political flags on there…