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I also would love to know why cachy

Slipgate ironworks needs to re-evaluate their priorities. Everything they've touched has been a complete miss from graven to phantom fury, all the way back to RoT 2013.

Linux mint exists, switch and never look back. They just released version 22 and it's probably the best version of mint I've ever used. Switch to mint and use flatpaks instead.

This right here, the whole tpm requirement was most likely pushed from OEM's wanting to sell new hardware.

That's never going to happen. I'm not sure on what stipulates a monopoly in this scenario, but the fact that there's bing, duck duck go, kagi, and a handful of others means it's not really a monopoly which tells me there is some specific ruling here that they've determined is monopolistic behavior.

Edit: yeah after reading the article, wtf Google....

I tried bazzite, unfortunately I had some odd quirks that I can only attribute to an immutable OS. Things like window and UI scaling wasn't consistent. My mouse cursor would blow up to twice the size when hovering over one window then shrink back down on another. I can only guess this is because the base filesystem is only readable and it can't write any values for scaling on certain themes/window decorations. While not a huge deal, it comes off as sloppy and inconsistent. It's not a great user experience and first impressions are everything. It's easy to make a first impression, it's damn near impossible to make a second one, and my first impression of an immutable OS has been soured. I installed mint 22 and it's been a completely different experience, from window decorations, to time shift backups, system updates, Bluetooth, cinnamon theming, it just works out of the box with little to no setup.

This is peak Bungie, they really hit their stride with halo 2. A lot of people would argue marathon 2 was peak, but halo 2 was so much fun and really fleshed out the universe in a way that marathon 2 couldn't due to technological limitations.

Yeah it's fine, there are a ton of pop_os fanboys out there, I'm just stating a fact. System76 complained about the gnome 40 changes over and over and the gnome devs ignored them, their only option was to make their own DE or use something else and they clearly didn't want to be at the mercy of another group of developers. I'm excited for cosmic as a true original DE in the style of gnome, but at the same time it's going to be rough around the edges because it's new.

I'm not sure smart is the right thing to say here, system76 backed themselves into a corner by criticizing gnome. They either had to do their own thing or put up with it, they clearly decided to do their own thing and show gnome how they think a DE should be managed. However there are other ways to handle it and Linux mint has done an amazing job with cinnamon and mate.

Yep, OP clearly didn't read the article and is banking on fake Internet points to fuel their comment. I'm glad management is getting the axe, they clearly have no fucking idea what they're doing in Bungie.

When your MMR is high enough and the game you play has SBMM it can take a long time to find matches. Some argue that SBMM ruins practice and only puts you against people that you just can't get any better at playing while increasing matchmaking times. This unfortunately promotes the smurfing culture, high skill players that create new accounts to stomp on lower skill players, thus ruining the experience for low skill players. Valve has recently taken a stand against smurfs in dota 2, but riot has yet to denounce any smurfing and I always see ads for league account sellers on twitch and YouTube to promote "lower MMR with all characters unlocked" or some shit, it's absolutely disgusting.

The one thing 343i did well with infinite was the multiplayer, same with halo 5, the mp was just really good. The story in both was completely ridiculous and in some cases borderline incoherent without knowledge of the books.

What I really have wanted for a while are games in the halo universe focusing on other characters and fleshing out what the universe has become post-human/covenant war. For instance, a game featuring Rian Forge and her crew with a mass effect style of gameplay would be awesome, and star wars outlaws is close to that style but ya know, Ubisoft.

Or a game focusing on the Spartan 3's from ghosts of onyx. That would be a really awesome game, and could flesh out more lore with the forerunner that we simply haven't had before. There's also the human/forerunner war from the forerunner trilogy. So much lore is there, they just don't use it and it eventually kills the games.