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  • A minority Ubisoft investor (…) noting that Ubisoft’s share price has fallen by over 40% since last year. Accordingly, Krupa wants the board to “take Ubisoft private or allow it to sell to strategic investor”

    Looks to me as if someone wanted a fast lever and with that failing now they’d like to sell ASAP

    EDIT:

    AJ Investments appear to be new kids on the block as Ubisoft minority shareholders. According to Krupa, “we started our Ubisoft position couple weeks ago and are still adding to it”. They do, however, boast of their “extensive knowledge about the gaming industry” after being a “long-term shareholder in Activision Blizzard”.

    "We cannot understand the decision-making process of current management

    U-huh



  • I think it comes from diminishing experience windows provides

    An example, since a few windows versions I can’t get to install an old HP printer because they haven’t written the drivers for it. On Linux it works fine.
    You don’t want ads and your os to be sending your passwords who knows where? AFAIK ATM no long time support version of windows provides that.
    My gaming buddy is rather well versed in computer stuff, he’s the person that writes and hosts our discord bots. He can’t make sound drivers to work as he wants. Sometimes things go loud without reason, sometimes mute doesn’t work, sometimes sounds play on an output that according to Windows is muted… Crazy stuff


  • That’s why I wrote it’s another unpopular opinion. Somehow the internet claims Arch is hard when to me it’s been the easiest distro I’ve ever used

    • No GUI bs, unless you install it yourself, that you never know what it does under the hood. The config file you find in man is the config file that governs the thing - easy
    • You deleted a little bit too much? You just reinstall package, like in Slackware - easy
    • You need something from outside the packages? Arch is very well prepared for you building things from source and install it in a sane way, instead of pure make install, like Gentoo - easy
      And PKGBUILD is easy to understand, RPM and DEB package creation is black magic
    • You don’t have a lot of crap in the system that you are not sure you need. Since it comes rather plain, you either install something you want, or it gets installed as dependency

    But, of course, YMMV
    And I’ve tried “easier” distros in the past. Sooner or later it always felt like I need proprietary set of keys to unscrew the lid to flip one small cable


  • I was mocking around with GPU drivers in order to make Podman containers to access the GPU. (…) I don’t have much spare time and I would like to play a game, I used to play before, without spending hours/days fixing issue that didn’t exist last time I played it.

    And

    I had other, non-regular user issues with those

    I think, you should keep these two things (messing with containers accessing GPU and “just play a game”) separate. I mean on separate boxes. Because now you can’t “just play” because you’ve been elbows deep in OS internals. You can’t take apart your fridge and then expect it to just cool the water the next day

    “optimised” for KDE

    Then I’m guessing these might need some KDE envs

    Yes, I use it on a daily basis but there’s no easy way to get it working on iOS/iPadOS.

    Ah, you’re trying to breach the non-open wall. Is there an app on i* that allows you to set up an ftp/http file sharing server on the device? You probably could set it up as rclone upstream


  • started with Mandrake, moved to Mandriva, spent over a year on Ubuntu and recently I’ve been using Fedora

    Another unpopular opinion:
    That’s because you’ve been using distributions that are either behind the times or have a lot of wonky crap added to them that looks like user friendliness when it works and is like fixing windows when it doesn’t (I’ve been through similar path, just with a few other distros along the way)

    Start with Gentoo or Arch (maybe Slackware). These are close to the grass, so the way to set things up is the way to fix things up

    some apps don’t respect desktop scaling

    are these gtk based apps? Different toolsets require different envs

    syncing

    Have you tried syncthing?