Yeah, you're not wrong that the article kinda sets itself up for the "lookit our recommended VPNs" pitch.

There's no way Microsoft would purposefully disable VPNs from working. I can guarantee that they require VPNs for thousands of roles in the company, let alone breaking it for government agencies that require VPNs, etc.

It is good to know that a specific update can break something ahead of time, though. Then at least you can avoid it.

There are some decent spinoffs, at least!

Lol, pretty sure they meant Obsidian.

I've been watching some streams of it and Chrono Trigger was absolutely what came to mind for me. The art is gorgeous and the music is awesome too. Game's got good vibes for sure.

I've got all of these League spinoff games wishlisted, they look great. I've always liked League of Legends' presentation and after the show became even more interested in the lore.

Does anyone have experience with them? Is there one in particular that stands above the others? I know they're relatively varied in their genres so it's rather subjective to say.

10-keyless keyboards are (kinda unfortunately IMO) popular with the custom keyboard crowd. I'm actually a little surprised that it's not available in an even smaller form-factor.

His miss, Ms. Take, made a mistake with a missed take when mistaking a steak for a stake.

This game is amazing. One of my first obsessions, I used to just play it to explore the environments and listen to the music in the different areas.

It looks good! Nice and clean cabling.

There are configuration files for dnf in /etc/dnf/protected.d that might have gnome-shell listed. Check that directory for a file called gnome-shell.conf. If there is, you can simply rm it and try removing gnome-shell again.

Be aware that there might be packages you have installed that depend on gnome-shell, so be sure to double check the list of dependent packages that will also be removed.

I've had this situation as well with a couple of games. Total War Warhammer 3 can't be played online (or it's not cross-platform, which would be weird) and XCOM 2 didn't handle modding all that well using the native client.

There are a few other games I've attempted but I can't remember all of them.

Graveyard Keeper has a native client but it can't use hardware driven cursors and its display resolution gets out of whack (on ultrawide, admittedly). The game doesn't have native ultrawide support, to be fair, but the scaling at least works correctly using Proton.

Loop Hero has a native Linux version and it works perfectly.

Oh yeah, speaking of Zachtronics, Last Call BBS is native and also works flawlessly.

1. The versions of games compiled for Linux work about... hmmm... maybe in a 60:40 split? Oftentimes I do find myself almost immediately switching the game's compatibility mode to use Proton on Steam if I have any issues.

2. I think both Proton and Wine receiving much, much more developer support lately is going to be a net good, longterm. Many developers don't have the "cognitive capacity" or time to dedicate to creating a version that runs on Linux without a compatibility layer. That's especially true for those using game engines that typically have poor support and tooling for Linux in the first place.

This is just a thought, maybe the effort being expended upon Proton/Wine will ultimately lead to solutions for compatibility issues that work without the use of "emulating" (for lack of a better work off the toppa my head) the whole Windows experience, replacing DLLs and whatnot.

3. I'm more okay with indie devs just relying on Proton, for sure. I don't give a "pass" to large studios that don't at least expend some effort to get the game to build and run on Linux without the use of Proton or other compatibility tools. With that said, I also understand that AAA projects have many hundreds, possibly a thousand people or more, having some part in the development process. It's not reasonable to assume that every person working on the game can have knowledge of or maintain that every aspect of their work is compatible with both Windows and Linux.

I prolly have more to day but my thumbs are tired lol.

That sounds about right, haha! I've done the same, and then found myself in the attic trying to draw more Ethernet.