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Comment on Winter of 69 / Welcome KMix v4 by Kenton

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Comment on KMix Project Coin by Antti

Antti — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:10:25 +0000

I noticed this VolumePercentageStep option a bit late, but thanks a thousand times, just what I needed! I’m using mouse wheel to change system volume, and I much prefer to have smooth scale.

Especially with KDE 4.10 the default step is way too large, around 15%. I found value of 0.4 to be quite nice.

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Comment on Desktop Linux – Steam as a new Chance by nowardev

nowardev — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:37:21 +0000

hey mate I do not want to be argumentative, I mean I use kde on ubuntu kernel so I do not worry so much about ubuntu. you should consider my post as a discussion of pub:

welll stallman is not the guru , sometimes he is too much extremist for me . i don’t accept the truth of gurus .i have a brain and i use it

for me the only stuff that they should do it’s ask to user if they wanted amazon lens enabled at the first login .

if you don’t leave the freedom to do what they like it’s still freedom ? or a regime ?

btw amazon lens can be disabled on the system settings .

for the privacy stuff, well you should not trust even the ubuntu’s kernel .. you should not trust even unity in toto…

btw canonical has said that informations about users are elabored on canical servers anonimally …. (shuttleworht website is down now but search for amzon lens shuttleworth. and you should find it when it will be up )

but let me show you a thinking :

if you don’t trust unity , you can always use lxde xfce gnome2 gnome3 and of course what i use that is kde.

canonical is not evil cuz has forked de facto gnome , if you think this this means that , you should say that xfce mate gnome2 are the evil cuz gnome3 it’s the real desktop the the others are just fake desktop.

what i think it’s that gnome3 devs has done a great mistake chosing to upset gnome desktop instead to integrate it. so people did not liked it . and because there is freedom unity mate were born. and this is because there were integralist cuz their rule was : communication? cooperation? this is gnome design

so the true evil thing here it is the point of view of gnome3 devs well sintetized here

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24813181.jpg

why i use kde ? cuz kde’s mind is open

Comment on Desktop Linux – Steam as a new Chance by Trail

Trail — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:30:05 +0000

Hmm… Well, it wouldn’t end fullscreen and wouldn’t take away keyboard control, in my case.

YMMV and all that.

Comment on Desktop Linux – Steam as a new Chance by beylix

beylix — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:57:10 +0000

Well, probably my post was a bit too harsh on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is nice, and I am using it, even though it fails on several of my soundcards (that work under OpenSUSE, BTW . But this does not mean following blindly their every move: Canonical got correctly criticised by the EFF and Richard Stallmann (FSF) as producing Spyware and AdWare. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks , http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

Comment on Desktop Linux – Steam as a new Chance by beylix

beylix — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:42:06 +0000

I am not promoting Steam. I am promoting the side-effects, that might have positive effects. Yes, Valve and Steam are an easy and popular target. But neither was DRM invented by Valve, nor were software (or game) licenses.
Your arguments when calling “Goodbye, freedom!” are just plain wrong. What do you gain if you get the package directly from the indie developers? Definitely not more freedom! You are seriously mistaken if you believe that you buy the product when you buy a Linux package. I bought several Linux games directly from the game developers, and the licenses are all non-free (e.g. no resale). Here is an excerpt from Amnesia, it explicitly states “non-transferable license”:

Frictional Games HB (the “Vendor”) grants to the user (the “Licensee”) a non-exclusive and non-transferable license (the “License”) to use the software.

Comment on Desktop Linux – Steam as a new Chance by beylix

beylix — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:29:54 +0000

It is neither wanted nor unwanted. Currently it is rather unobtrusive in most cases. But it takes away keyboard control from the fullscreen application, which is sometimes undesirable. And when fullscreen ends by hitting “volume up”, this is just not what one wants.

Comment on Desktop Linux – Steam as a new Chance by beylix

beylix — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:24:07 +0000

You must have misread my article. I am not promoting Steam. If you follow my post, you will see that I am simply hoping on positive side effects of Valve’s efforts. Issues that should have been fixed since several years.

Comment on Desktop Linux – Steam as a new Chance by librarian

librarian — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:24:44 +0000

I don’t share this common enthusiasm for Valve bringing the worst kind of DRM to Linux. I have a Windows box for gaming, but I ditched Steam long time ago, when they updated their policy so that they don’t offer games but subscribtions. Steam represents the worst trend in consumer computing – taking away the product (which can be given, resold, inherited) in return for a limited “service”.

So how does this affect me? Well, there is increasing number of Windows download-only games that can only be bought on Steam and I fear same will happen on Linux. Several indie developers are defaulting to Steam, but they prepare Linux packages knowing there’s no Steam on that platform… Well not anymore. Goodbye, freedom!