wizardbeard

Curves and corners in all the right places, and those buttons... just so tactile.

Holy shit, I thought Unicyclopedia had died ages ago.

Rip and tear!

I think it's still there, just behind the 196 and harder to see.

Just like on reddit or any other site: you are in complete control of blocking users and communities. Just block the linux ones and move on.

Also, this isn't an airport. You don't need to announce your departure.

Despite your valid counterpoints, those are all still hurdles that will drive away general adoption, especially when there are people surviving digitally entirely off of a smart phone and tablet. We see similar complaints from people about simply picking a lemmy instance. How can we expect them to navigate the more complex landscape of distros?

I don't mind it, it's not a big hurdle for me, but it is undeniably a hurdle for the average person. They aren't tech literate.

I also can't remember the last time I had to use cmd or PowerShell to troubleshoot or configure stuff on my home Windows box (my primary desktop still). When I first customized the install media, and when I configured it post install. I was tearing out core components like Cortana search, and preinstalling updates to the iso. Not anything critical to actual usability.

The key settings are almost all available through the UI. All of the ads that make headlines are controlled by a single switch in the settings menu, which hasn't been reset by updates like people keep saying it does.

You really only have to get into the guts for stuff like disabling web search, killing preinstalled apps, and the like.

I automate shit through PowerShell for a living (effectively). Cmd and PoSh are good for automating stuff, working on batches of stuff at once, and for interacting with certain stuff in Azure that you usually would never touch.

Oh no, I can't interact with deleted mailboxes that are aging off behind the scenes without using PowerShell! That's totally the same as Linux's reliance on the terminal.

SPEAK UP BROTHER! YOU'RE COMING THROUGH REAL QUIET AND I CAN'T TURN UP THE VOLUME OR I'LL WAKE UP MY WIFE!

In case anyone missed the gun=penis motif, he made sure to give it muscles too!

Oh. Oh. OP wants moderators and admins to leave filtering out CP to the individual users.

Enough said. Even 4chan doesn't play around with that shit.

Judging from all of your comments here, I'd highly suggest that if you keep smelling shit everywhere you go, maybe you should check your shoes.

I seriously can't fathom coming into a place, badmouthing everyone already there, and then being surprised when they react negatively.

Also, if you want a place without moderators overseeing everything with a fine toothed comb, there are countless *chan sites with minimal moderation (only removal of heinously illegal content). You might seriously have a better experience on one of them if you find lemmy stifling. There's even a number of them now that allow users to make their own boards for whatever niche topic they want.

My only real counter to that is Project Zomboid. It's a complete game. It's in EA due to them wanting to add many more gameplay systems to the existing complete sandbox. They have a roadmap somewhere. They don't release major updates without multiple ones being added.

Last major update (41, a few years ago) was drivable cars (and all the spawning systems, loot, and map changes to make them fully fleshed out) and multiplayer. I'm sure there was more, but those were the standout things.

The new major update (42, available through a public opt-in beta branch right now) is a complete overhaul to gunplay, liquid management/mixing, crafting systems, lighting engine, and the addition of NPC animals with a full husbandry system. And that's only the highlights. It will stay in beta as they get better data for balancing the new features and the absurdly increased player count surfaces bugs they didn't find through internal testing. Once it's balanced and stable (maybe a year), they'll push this update to the main branch where it will continue to get minor bug fixes as things crop up (usually bugs surfaced by the modding community by the time it hits stable).

Then they'll keep crunching away on work on human NPCs and simulating story stuff with loot generation, which I believe will be the next major update in a few years.

Each intermediate release is a complete game, it just doesn't have the full set of features on the roadmap. It still is the best zombie survival sim on the market as is.

But it is absolutely a unicorn of early access.

Everyone keeps labelling GabeN as the only one holding VALVe to standards, but by his own admission he's more of the equivalent of a board member now, not deeply involved in the day to day anymore. I think the only ones that truly know his level of involvement would be people at VALVe.

What I'm getting at is that I have the same concerns about what will happen after he passes, but I don't think he's the only person standing in the way of VALVe going full corporate.