30% is industry standard
It was an industry standard, that’s been changing for a while, just take a look at how much fire google and apple are taking over their stores.
but valve are good and kind and shit rainbows so they deserve money
Valve is a corporation, it might be less bad than the rest, but at the end of the day gabe is still sifting mai thais on his 500 million dollars yacht.
95% of the players on pc are on steam, if you don’t publish your game there you’re just shooting yourself in the foot - this has very little to do with the quality of the service valve provides and everything to do about their monopoly on the market. Would devs like to pay a smaller cut to valve? Sure, but it’s just the cost of doing business, you go where your customers are.
Does steam provide a good service? Sure. Is it worth the 30% cut they take? Absolutely not. Gamers don’t realize the amount of money valve is making off them. What we need is a good old fashioned bill at every purchase detailing how much money these rent seeking stores are extracting from you.
I don’t want the 90 services and bloated platform steam offers, I want to play my game and pay the developers.
the heel of the show
i’m not familiar with that idiom. if you don’t realize you’ve been getting an increasingly shallower version of the same character you’ve not been paying attention, it usually happens naturally in tv shows (flanderization) - like how homelander is suddenly asexual and breast milk obsessed. but yes the writers are pulling in every stop to make sure you hate the character because they understandably don’t want people to root for the main villain which for some reason is trump 2.0, as if we needed yet another portrayal of that. the amount of shows that don’t degrade after season 1 is incredibly low unfortunately.
Yeah the writers didn’t like how part of the audience sided with homelander in the first couple of seasons, so they did what writers do and took a hammer to the character.
It’s unlikely that whatever issue you’re having with your games is because of the desktop environment.
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Ventoy is probably not the best thing to recommend.
developing an app directly on wayland and that it would be really difficult.
yes it would - you’d just end up reimplementing work from projects like SDL and gtk, this is why we invented libraries.
firefox and gtk
firefox is gtk3 based, which is substantially different from gtk4, and moreso adwaita. there’s some discussion about porting to gtk4, but for large projects like these shit is slow moving - just look at how long steam is taking to port their client to wayland.
The blockers are in Gnome’s design guidelines
And yet most gnome apps use context menus… They’re just not a priority given that any functionality in a context menu needs to be duplicated elsewhere so that people can find it. This isn’t just a gnome thing btw, it’s the way UI everywhere is going: Hamburger menus all the way down.
bottles
I like it, i use lutris though because i don’t care for the sandboxing.
Most GNOME apps do use context menus though, there’s nothing about adwaita or gtk that blocks this.
the right mouse button is never used for anything?
I’m curious, what exactly would you want RMB to do? And the reasons why it’s not used much is twofold, lack of discoverability and touch based device compatibility (which isn’t just phones btw).
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The main reason Valve doesn’t step in is because it would cost them money. Moderating content is expensive as hell and these corporations will bend themselves backwards finding any and every way to avoid it.
but just by itself this comment is basically a marketing post.
We’re 3 comments deep in a 20 hour old topic, nobody but us will be reading this.
KDE also has outreach programs
I’m curious, do you have any links?
KDE is relatively smaller in scope than GNOME. Besides, GNOME has taken on its own hurdles like compatibility across devices, the userbase is also different so they’re less likely to contribute towards areas like gaming for example.
What lets GNOME dominate developer wise right now are adwaita and the language barrier - KDE is mostly c++, whereas in GNOME you’ll find a mix of languages and outreach programs like GNOME circle.
You gotta load up Gnome with hundreds of extension
You don’t have to though? I use vanilla GNOME. Customization is never free, if you aren’t using it it’s just bloat and the more you add the more it slows down development.
KDE is following GNOME in dropping x11 support in early 2027. The only solution if you want to still use x11 going forward is to get a LTS like ubuntu and bunker up for the next 10 years.
I never mentioned publishers, in fact indies do not even have publishers. Can you stop with this whataboutism ?