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Its a form of short hand in text stylization to emphasize words.

Think of it as when someone quickly bites off a word to drive a point.

Much like have someone would CAPITALIZE a word to over emphasize something as if raising one’s voice.

Or italicize or put to help over enunciate a word as if to speak it slowly and with pressure on every syllable.

Short hand verbal text communication is literally the body language of text communication. Hell it’s become so common place that many modern fiction novels now use it.

And just like any other language there’s even dialectics to it. So while it can be somewhat confusing to wander into a different community online and see different symbols and formats being used they are almost instantly understandable if you understand whats happening.

Me anytime I look at a printer… THIS SHOULDNT WORK, IT DIDNT WORK, NOW IT DOES, WHAT WITCH CRAFT IS THIS?!

It wouldn’t call it salty so much as disgusted down votes. Salty implies someone’s jealous, and why the fuck would anyone be jealous of someone else buying a game regardless of where it’s from. Makes no damnable sense.

On the other hand it’s well known the majority of gamers that frequently online discussions anywhere on the internet dislike the epic store and see it as awful. So calling them disgusted down votes fit.

No… Not intrinsicly. Epic is about as anti consumer as you can get. And they are even more anti developer then steam is.

They just ass fuck devs via unreal engine and eac along with poaching games for extremely fucked exclusively deals. So the epic store it self looks “better” because they can abuse it as a loss leader and basically not invest into it at all.

Epic store isn’t real competition. It’s a competitor only so far in that it’s a digital store. But its like comparing Walmart to bestbuy.

If epic had its way everything would be worse then it so it can be on top. Not because it’s better but cause it’s made everything around it worse so it looks better by comparison.

It’s the entire reason the joke valve does nothing and wins. Because they don’t give a single fuck what other stores do and just focus on themselves and make sure they arnt abused for the services they offer.

So the worse thing you can say about valve is they have some restrictions on devs that prevent them from abusing services to the point it degrades the consumers experience.

Other then that it’s just industry standard stuff that sucks, mostly because outside of only steam no other store actually justifies the costs and downsides of digital distribution.

It is a distro thing. It requires configuration and most good distros have it pre-configured.

That in community apps, third party hardware and a bunch of other nice cities still don’t have good support unless you’re on Arch.

Things are starting to support Fedora, but it’s unlikely that we’ll ever see a lot of the more niche stuff support something like Debian.

This is mostly VR stuff tho.

It is annoying how often I find that pre-compiled binaries are only available on the aur. And if you want to install a community application for a game, you basically have to compile it from source for anything else.

Super annoying

Debian is the absolute goat so long as your work flow fits inside of the scope of Debian which 99% of everybody’s well, even most regular normal gamers will do just fine in Debian using flat packs.

You just have to also accept the fact that if you’re doing something niche like VR gaming or using weird third-party custom hardware or something Debian sucks ass. A lot of my VR kit straight up doesn’t even support anything that uses apt.

It only supports Fedora and Arch. Because a lot of it straight up will not work with flat pack anything. There’s just no support and s*** brakes constantly. You need up-to-date libraries and some of these libraries update multiple times a week. It’s just not inside the scope of something like Debian.

Always try Debian first. If it doesn’t work then try something else. It’s usually the best rule of thumb.

Because till recently gaming on Linux was a f****** joke and meant being really easy to install and basically a derivative of Ubuntu without having to deal with canonical made it a popular choice for all of the long-time Linux uses. So it’s just what they suggested.

In reality meant is no better than just telling people to install Ubuntu or Debian if they want to game. If you just play older games then it’s whatever and it doesn’t really matter. But if you’re trying to do some niche gaming like VR or something, basically anything that uses apt is a massive pain in the f****** ass

Sure it works but you almost always end up waiting months longer than everyone else for fixes and considering some things can get updated multiple times a week for major fixes. Having to wait months for a big cumulative thing is just not okay.

Definitely! So if you’re using specialized hardware or software or third-party apps. A lot of stuff has actually gone to the point where they don’t even support Debian and Ubuntu or other activate systems. They only support Fedora or Arch

Since those are the only ones that really ever have a up-to-date libraries to actually be usable for purpose without having to do a bunch of funky s***.

Debian like normal is your best option if it works for you, it is the most reliable that you can really get. But the moment something is outside of scope of it. You’re almost always better off just using literally anything f****** else.

Even Debian unstable can be months behind a lot of fixes for gaming related things.

VR for example is a fucking nightmare in general but God FUCK you wait months behind fedora or arch for a lot of fixes on Debian.

With how frequently I have to wait on mesa updates, kernel updates and package updates to even hit my arch systems for functionality.

No fucking world exists where Debian with out a bunch of fucking around has 1/2 those fixes in reasonable time frame.

In fact I know they don’t cause I frequently have to put my Debian install aside to play various games because the fixes and packages required literally do not come fast enough.

Yeah but ppa and apt are the worse of all the options. Other wise you right.

Fuck ppas horrid system.

It was an a****** dude that no one wanted to play against in high-ranking ladders because everyone knew his name because he was a f****** a******.

So he made two accounts. One called Papa Smurf and the other smurfette. Then proceeded to s*** on low-ranking. Players made fun of them and was he general a****** till everyone learned those names and started avoiding him as well.

Smurfing since its inception has been fundamentally something only assholes do where this whole purpose of being an a******.

Ranked systems only work if everybody only has one account. It’s also why most games restrict you to only one account for ranked purposes.

Set the game to always below and the app to always above.

Use borderless window in games. Avoid full screen it’s jank as fuck basically always.

We are equal opportunity haters.

That’s the entire gimmick of barqs

Seriously…? Breaking and entering and theft at a minimum.

By using the internet for literally 5 seconds.

It’s more like we all agreed on one physical standard. Cool!

Now the problem is that standard doesn’t actually say what should go on the inside and how it should all be wired up.

So we have entirely divorced the physical and electrical aspects.

We won half the battle and somehow it made everything worse…

USB c is the physical spec and none of those connectors you have are out of date. Every single one is still perfectly to spec and up to date

The electrical spec they use is out of date, but that has literally nothing to do with the physical one.

Which honestly almost makes the entire problem worse…