If you buy a desktop PC rather than build your own, you probably already paid the Windows license
But really, the $139 Windows 11 price isn't where it's actually pricy: Windows Server licenses are make thousands of dollars, typically do not come with the hardware, and Linux can do that workload too.
That's where the real savings comes... As long as you have admins who know how to manage Linux servers...
Having to occasionally chase the latest kernel (which you can get in Mint if needed) is one of the reasons I switched away, but overall, I still recommend it... That and wanting modern KDE that isn't an afterthought.
If you're content with Cinnamon, though, it's an excellent choice overall
Honestly, anyone distributing compiled code from GitHub should at a minimum set up a basic GitHub page with a link to it at the top of the readme... Probably wouldn't be very hard to set up a CI workflow to automatically update the page with the latest releases and a link to the relevant release page for details.
Last time I tried Zed, it wouldn't recognize the space key because I have two keyboard layouts configured and I use the second one for everything (Dvorak, but I have to keep Qwerty as the main so games running through Proton will map keys correctly)
I'll have to check if they've fixed that, I was very disappointed I couldn't try it out at the time
As others have mentioned, 5.0 and 6.0 and 7.0 are really just version bumps the same as any other with no extra meaning beyond "we got tired of being stuck on 2.6 for 8 years and decided we're not doing that anymore".
It's not using semantic versioning and hasn't since 2011... Realistically, it hasn't since 2003 seeing as they spent 8 years without any single release being "big enough" to bump even the minor version number, let alone the major. Honestly, if they were still using that criteria from the pre-3.0 era, we'd probably be on something like 2.6.100 right now
I think he just doesn't want to wind up stuck again like with 2.6, which was the mainline kernel version from 2003 through 2011, finally ditching their classic semantic versioning and bumping to 3.0 from 2.6.39 in July 2011
I'm pretty sure if they were still using the old methodology, we'd still be on 2.6.x
The phake phish company isn't monitoring those, so no worries!
You misunderstand me: I'm grateful that the current Linux EAC doesn't do kernel/root level bullshit like the Windows version because Helldivers players just got it foisted on us
Which I'm very grateful for since Helldivers just switched to it
I see where you're coming from, but I also see where their concerns are still valid: these changes could become the defacto default for pretty much everything if allowed to flourish without opposition. For a great example of that, see systemd: yes, you can run a system without it, but you'll be cut off from mainstream distros and even have trouble with getting a lot of regular software to work, such as Gnome, unless someone has patched those requirements out.
So, I'm in favor of pushing back on this, even if it's not going into a game I play. It might be shoved into games I want to play later, possibly even most games I'll want to play, even if they don't have multiplayer, because corpos gonna corpo.
If I had faith it would remain optional, I might feel differently, but I can see this becoming part of the new DRM model that everyone has to bow to or be cut off from pretty much all mainstream (and a lot of non-mainstream) games. Maybe even pretty much all mainstream (and a lot of non-mainstream) distros.