Mindustry is basically Factorio-meets-tower-defense. It's open-source, also available on desktop.
Ephera
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Is the normal Breeze cursor not an option?
I'm also not quite sure what you mean with "Wayland cursor", but I'm using the default Breeze cursor under Wayland without problems...
It's AI-generated non-sense. Pineapples grow on small plants like this:
Both parents are on openSUSE KDE. They only use the web browser and printer, so it pretty much doesn't matter what UI they use, but it really helped with their acceptance that KDE not only works similar to Windows, it was a clear upgrade from Windows 7, with it looking more modern and being a lot faster.
I also like openSUSE for this, because YaST allows me to administer their PC without cracking out the terminal for everything. It just gives them at least a tiny bit of hope that they might be able to do this themselves. And my brother, who's not a Linux person, has managed to fix things via YaST without my help.
Ultimately, though, I use openSUSE KDE myself, and that's really important.
If my parents mildly complain about something, I can proactively offer to change that, because I know all the settings of KDE and YaST.
Or if I don't know whether there's a setting, I can go digging for it on my system.
But perhaps most importantly:
"This Linux thing isn't working." – "Hmm, it's working on my system, so there's gotta be a way to fix it."
That immediately shuts down any negativity, so I can concentrate on fixing it, rather than deflecting their grumbling.
That's the sad part. If there's one thing that the open-source community produces an abundance of, it's definitely text editors, but music players are a close second.
Previously, we've had XMMS as an open-source project that supported WinAmp skins.
And right now, perfectly actively maintained, there is QMMP.
I'd bet money that the code quality of QMMP is a lot higher than that of WinAmp. So, if anyone wanted an open-source WinAmp, it was there all along.
People are saying that the repo contained third-party code, some of which was proprietary, some was GPL. That's two angles from which they could be sued very easily...
Recently, I read of a concept where they put delivery bikes onto trams (without disrupting normal usage). That seems like a cool concept for covering cities.
But I also think that delivery cars are a net positive, because they allow people to not own a car themselves.
I feel like a big reason why AA disappeared is poor visibility in a saturated market.
Indies get visibility from just posting on social media and indie-specific events, because many people genuinely just love seeing labors of love.
AAA games get visibility from just pumping millions into marketing.
As a AA game, you're kind of caught in the middle. You're not enough labor of love to reach the indie enjoyers, and you're frequently just drowned out by AAA marketing. Not to mention that AAA releases are frequent enough that you'll pretty just reach gamers who enjoy a certain genre or franchise.
Having said that, we're on the tail end of the games wave that came from the pandemic. Maybe in a year from now, AA games are in a better place again.
Damn, lots of stuff. I'm guessing, they're getting in all the changes for the 2024 edition, which don't yet break backwards-compatibility.
Well, I wasn't aware that they're doing this, because I don't follow Microsoft news.
Now that I've heard it, I don't find it particularly surprising, although as the other person suggested, surely there's a more proper solution.
Maybe they don't want a proper solution, though, because it puts them into the news...
Hmm, I read that the KDE devs changed the Breeze cursor to use SVG files, which allows scaling it for the shake-cursor-feature of Plasma 6.1. That feature's only available on Wayland, but yeah, no idea if this really couldn't be done on X11...