I have no personal experience with ReactOS yet, therefore I comment on a general issue. From practical stand point, not just nostalgia, what would be the use case over Linux with WINE and other compatibility layers? Don’t get my question misunderstood, I have high respect for the developers and the project. And I want to see it succeed.

Yes.

Development time.

I exclusively use EXT4, so this is welcome improvements. It’s really rock solid and performance is good too. Not sure how relevant these improvements other than measuring them in specific cases will be for my daily usage, but it can’t hurt I guess. Article also talks about:

avoiding possible soft lockups or RCU stall conditions, and a variety of bug fixes

Which is impressive, because its pretty darn good already. I wonder if anyone ecountered a bug in the filesystem on a live system in recent years or if this is just some cleanups they found when inspecting the code, without affecting anyone in real world?

You are right. I think blocking had a limit, but I don’t remember details anymore. Edit: The Avoid as Team Member-functionality was added later, presumably because lot of players asked to have a bigger block list. I remember vaguely about such discussions back then.

Unfortunately running away from problems won’t solve them.

Overwatch (1, the real first game) let you block only up to 5 or 7 people or so. Not only that, the block lasted only 1 week or so and will be lifted automatically. The idea is, that you block only in very specific cases where you don’t like the person or they don’t like you for whatever reason, but still follow the rules. And sometimes people change after they had a bad day and should get a second chance (I noticed that with other players and its true). Because if the person is constantly toxic or does not follow any other rules, the person should be removed from match making and be reported instead just blocking. This helps everyone, not just you. And it makes match making search and find better matches, because there are less blocked people.

That was in Overwatch 1 back then, no idea how its handled now.

Following Curators makes sense to cap, because that is more complex algorithm than just listing news. The Curator recommendations is an algorithm. But, I don’t understand why developers and publisher count in the same limit. Maybe Steam wants you to think about what you follow, so that each follow has a meaning (for their algorithm and for you). I mean regardless of any artificial limit, this is true anyway, so you are advised to limit yourself if there is none.

I do follow 44 in total. And weirdly 4 Curators have empty pages now, plus 1 publisher page which I unfollow now (plus 1 Steam Hardware that is empty too, why doesn’t it list all Steam Hardware at least?). I assume they deleted all entries, but no idea why that happened. Maybe they migrated to the Steam News page https://store.steampowered.com/news/ , as those Curators with empty page are mostly news outlets: The Verge, Ars Techinca News, Game Informer Magazine, IndieGames. But that is not the same, because their recommendations will not appear anymore.

Transparency is the first step of trust.

Biggest XBOX news this year was about cancelling games and employee layoffs.

What exactly happened?

Me doesn’t follow anything you suggested. :D Never had a second bootloader in almost 20 years and never didn’t encounter an issue where it would solve the problem. Although I just distro hopped once, or twice if you count same family of distro.

Recently (years ago) switched from grub to systemd-boot (note, it is badly named, as it is not a systemd component and just a different project taken over and renamed from gummiboot, so technically it should be usable without systemd), as it is much simpler and less prone to issues than grub (and because it is the default recommendation by EndeavourOS too). I have only one operating system installed and from day to day work, I never noticed a difference in the operation.

More money for fascists.

Why fascists??

When I think back what issues distro-specific was, I can only think about repository and package management problems. So things like Ubuntu: PPA, Snap and Manjaro: Pamac, AUR and so on. Because most of problems and issues aren’t caused by your distribution, it is hard to find something that is and knowing it is caused by the distribution.

Installing Endeavour via Ventoy,

What exactly was the problem?

Every PPA is a repository you add and that was a traumatic experience (I used Ubuntu as first distro for straight 13 years or so). Because they can all have their own dependencies and need to be the right compatible one for your Ubuntu version, which also meant that upgrading Ubuntu was a pain too. Oh I hated it so much… honestly worse than Snaps! No wonder that Canonical pushes so much for Snaps.

Dolphin

In a similar vein, you can now group files and folders independently from the sorting criterion. This means you can order files alphabetically by name and then group the files by type.

This is neat! Because I would like to group by date in example, showing me roughly the files from same period or day and then the files are sorted however I like them to be.

Konsole

You can now hold down the Alt key, click on an underlined file name, and drag it somewhere else. Also, drag an image onto an image editor to open “Ready for Editing”, drag it onto a text editor and it will copy the path to the file.

OMG! I always was dreaming of such a feature (if it sounds like joke, no it is not), as I like using the terminal a lot. I don’t know if it will work with output from find or ls command, or any other. Unfortunately I just switched my default terminal from Konsole to Kitty. Man, adding more drag and drop features to terminal is awesome and makes it more integrated into workflows that involve GUIs.

Kdenlive

In the Titler, you can now copy and paste objects, give rectangles rounded corners, and snap objects to the center and edges of the screen as well as to other items. This feature includes a visual guide to help you.

The Titler is a cool tool, used it a few times. Being able to snap them related to screen or other objects is welcome. Hmm also I didn’t know one could not copy and paste objects, not sure if I ever tried it. Good to know it works now!

Below are personal notes not in the update / post

Dolphin - Unresolved Issue: But they still did not address the bug I filed over a year ago… where the selection of files is not remembered when using a filter on the filter bar of Dolphin. Meaning that using a filter will “deselect” anything that is filtered out, and removing the filter means that all selected files are now unselected.

Dolphin - Just noticed: Wait a second, I just noticed a new setting on the filter! Previously the filter acted as a hybrid of Plain and Glob Pattern, depending on if you used any Star * in example. Now its a menu to choose how it should act, which is definetely an improvement. And we can even enable / disable matching the exact case (lowercase vs uppercase). Not sure if that was possible before, but now there is a simple toggle. I have no idea when this was added, probably with the last update.

Using an engine does not mean slop. It depends if they are lazy and do just an asset flip in example.

At least they course corrected before launch. After 15 miss steps, they finally did the right move by chance.

Didn’t even look good, from artistic standpoint. It has (or had?) this Fortnite vibe.