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> I just converted a small personal site from Hugo to Jekyll

Did you mean "from Jekyll to Hugo" instead?

> What is in it for Valve?

Aside of political motives regarding Microsoft, the technological problem that Valve is solving with using the flatpak technology is creating a single Linux build target for all Linux game releases.

A recurring complaint from gamedevs is that it's difficult to support many different Linux distributions/versions/runtimes. Steam already does a decent job providing its own runtime to link against, but this goes several steps further in abstracting away from the distribution that a user may be running.

Which platinum game? Which known problem? I wish complaints were less vague, then it wouldn't sound like exaggeration and would be actionable for people who are working on these technologies.

For what it's worth, I've played dozens of platinum (and gold, and silver) games since Proton came out with nearly flawless experiences. In many cases, it ran more reliably than Windows.

Thanks for looking up the timeline, I was not sure. Also full disk encryption on phones is another thing Apple did way earlier.

I agree it's not exactly apples to Apples. Does Apple still have special permissions for their own apps which allows them to run unobstructed, but other apps need to jump hoops with callbacks and other workarounds?

Are we expecting for Apple to always be 5 years ahead of Google on privacy features? Or did Google shift priorities with Android 10?

Honestly if we're talking about buying an iOS device or an Android device in 2014, I'd lean towards iOS for sure. I don't feel the same way about it today.

You're correct, both Android and iOS have improved. Both have the features you described today, neither had them several years ago.

Agreed! That's one thing that I know Gmail is _very_ good at, at least. I didn't get the impression that Fastmail cares particularly about that problem yet.

Same. I'm hoping that Valve's commitment to do a Linux-native release of Half-Life: Alyx is at least a commitment to get an end-to-end working VR experience on Linux sooner than later.