juipeltje

I think i like strawberry the best out of the ones i’ve tried (i also tried deadbeef and audacious). Maybe it’s an issue with my distro’s package, but strawberry didn’t want to play CDs anymore, which is pretty much the only thing i use these players for now, cause i have my music collection hosted with navidrome and then stream it with supersonic. So now i use audacious instead. I usually like to play a CD directly and listen to it before i rip it, so that’s why i still want that functionality occasionally.

Pretty sure audacious does indeed have a lyric plugin that can look up the lyrics for you. I don’t think it does timed lyrics though.

I’m not really using it anymore aside from it still being on my server (i simply haven’t switched it to my new distro yet), but what made me switch to it is xbps. It’s lightning fast but seems more solid than pacman, and can easily update a system that hasn’t been updated in years.

I also ended up liking the simplicity of runit, and it made me realize i just don’t like using systemd all that much. Because of that i now tend to look out for other non-systemd distros as well. A few months ago i switched my desktop and laptop over to guix.

Yeah unfortunately i’m also still on river-classic, so can’t be of much help regarding the new river framework and its window managers. My distro hasn’t packaged any of the new river stuff yet, and i couldn’t be bothered to do it myself. It’s hard to say how much trouble you would have setting up a compositor, cause they all have different configuration languages. Some like Sway use their own syntax, then there’s river-classic that uses shell script, or even qtile that is configured in python. I use waybar as a bar for most of my compositors (except qtile, which has its own bar and is also very good). I use Fuzzel as my launcher. I have a few themes configured for my programs that i switch with a script, which mainly consists of some sed commands that replace lines in my configs, and then reloading the programs if necessary.

What the hell, why haven’t i heard anyone else talk about this, that’s ridiculous lol

I switched to get away from the windows telemetry that started to freak me out, but i stayed for the customization that allows me to completely make it my own, and the fact that linux doesn’t do shit in the background without me knowing it and just does what i actually want it to do. I tried using windows again in a dualboot configuration when i wanted to play gta online, plus i ended up needing hdmi 2.1, but i just couldn’t do it, it was too frustrating and annoying to use. I bought a dp to hdmi adapter and figured i’d rather give up on anti-cheat games like gta online if it means i never have to touch windows again.

Wait, i’m confused now. Have we been talking purely about multi-disc this entire time? Cause if so, there aren’t many games that even need this, and usually games that are big enough to need 2 discs are made by companies that can afford it, like rockstar and square enix.

I’m not sure what else you want me to say, i’ve said my piece. I can’t feel bad about every company that goes under because i didn’t buy something from them, otherwise i would be living under a bridge. I don’t want to be at the mercy of the one single storefront that exists on playstation going forward, so i won’t be buying those consoles anymore.

Yeah, even though they are still PCs i think that’s also one of the advantages of the steam deck/machine. Developers can make graphics presets for that specific hardware like cyberpunk did, or you can just look online and see what graphics settings other people used to get the best experience. And yeah i also despise TAA lol, i actually hooked my ps5 up to a different monitor when i saw it ghosting cause i thought my monitor was broken or something lol. I really hate that most console games don’t give you the option to turn it off.

I mean, they don’t HAVE to go out of business, i’m just saying i wouldn’t buy the game if i knew upfront that the game wasn’t on the disc. It’s not that i never buy digital games, but i usually never buy them full price, if i do it’s usually on pc, and even then it’s rare.

If they screw me over then no i don’t want them to make more products, i can live without.

I have to admit as a pc gamer who also plays console that i like the plug and play experience of consoles as well. Usually when i boot up a game it’s to take a break from tinkering with linux, only to then get stuck tinkering with game settings lol. With the direction ps6 is going though, it’s not worth it anymore to me and i’d rather have to tinker with my games instead of losing all my freedom.

I don’t see why not, they could before couldn’t they? Even if you want to stick to the cost argument, i don’t have to care about that, cause i need to look out for myself as a consumer. If they can’t provide a way for me to own the game, i’ll simply take my business elsewhere. There’s a reason i opted to buy a disc edition ps5 instead of a digital edition, because i didn’t want to be locked to their storefront. That hasn’t changed one generation later, so if that’s the only option i’m just not going to buy it. Also, you claim physical is dead, but the situation is more nuanced when you look at the sales on a per game basis. There are definitely a lot of games that sell more digitally, but there are also first party titles like rift apart that have a 75%/25% physical/digital ratio. I think they’re definitely taking a risk alienating those first party customers by going digital only, but we’ll see what happens i guess.

I’m sure they’ll be fine compared to the 30% that sony/steam takes.

Yeah i know, but at least the option is there, showing that it’s possible. And with steam games you can always crack them, or just go the piracy route.

That’s not because of the discs lol. If you afford to spend 300 million on slop like concord, you can print discs. And a franchise like gta 6 can definitely afford them.

Well you can actually own your games on pc even if they’re digital. Games don’t have to be physical to be able to own them, but on consoles physical is the only way to own, which is why it’s considered important on those platforms. If consoles as a digital platform were as free as pc, it wouldn’t be as big an issue.

It’s interesting, cause i just saw them mention this subject about gamers being mad at playstation in the national news in my country, so if that’s anything to go by maybe it’s causing more of a stink than we think.

Well they don’t always, but you can just use multiple discs in that case. I think final fantasy has done this as well as a recent example, but this has already been done since the days of games still being on CD.

Yet another reason for me to consider ps5 being my last playstation console and just fully focussing on my pc. Sure steam still has drm games as well, but at least we also have stores like GOG, cracked games, piracy, etc.