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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The single slackware gamer. His entire library is games from the 90s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ha! You're not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should post this on the Slackware community!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I should! I didn't think I'd get more than a couple upvotes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Woah, Slackware. You know your stuff. Respect!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks stranger! Just don't ask me anything about systemd so I can maintain that illusion.

Slackware isn't as hard as everyone thinks though. Throw it up on a vm and play with it! The install process is pretty easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doots for fellow Slacker!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Come say hi and be among friends! #slackware:matrix.org ##seven at libera.chat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Flatpak version or multilib?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Multilib + the slackbuild script. Slackpkg+ and alienbob's repos make it super easy to keep a multilib system up to date. Slackbuilds.org is the first place I look if I want to install something new.

I do use flatpak for ultimaker cura, but mainly because there's no slackbuild and so many python deps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ahhh my first non-unix distro. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Come back home!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I evenrually made my way to Debian, and think I found my new home.

[+] [email protected] -33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

giving more details about your hardware to Valve profit from you even more

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Because they don't already have all this info and more about me?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Those are not PII tho. What you're sending is just how much RAM you have, system and OS information and that's pretty much it. I'm sure Gaben won't send an assassin on you based on your HW specs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If you run any proprietary software connected to the internet then it can send this info to whomever. If you use a regular web browser with Javascript enabled then a lot of this info can also be obtained by whatever website you're visiting.

[+] [email protected] -25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For real. As privacy-oriented as most people on Lemmy seem to be, a good chunk of them would still freely give any of that info in a heartbeat if it would make Gaben happy or make Linux more commercialized.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The fact we are given a choice is a big thing for me. I hate when my info is just pulled from me without my agency. But I am happy to share info with open source project to help them improve. Also valve being a private company they can just build software as their main goal vs just making the line go up by any means possible like a public company.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Valve already know my OS and hardware profile. If the year of the linux desktop ever comes to pass, it won't be as easy for game developers and studios to ignore us.