easily installs steam (after you enable the 32bit repos)

Alternatively, you can install the Steam flatpak.

Related: Has anyone here used Pretty Good Phone Privacy (PGPP)?

https://invisv.com/pgpp/

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-schmitt.pdf

This is an unusual combination of requirements:

• Does not make you install a desktop environment
• Must have steam

I guess maybe you’re planning to use the same distro for a server and a gaming system? Debian can do that. I recommend enabling Debian Backports on the gaming system, for access to recent kernel/firmware/mesa packages (you pick which ones you need).

By the way, markdown ate your list formatting because you didn’t put a space between the - and the text.

Debian. Set it to stable instead of trixie and it’s kind of a rolling release.

Testing or Unstable would be kind of like a rolling release.

Stable currently is Trixie, and has a release cycle of roughly 1-2 years. It’s not a rolling release. (However, OP’s comments make it seem like they’re just trying to avoid major breakage during release upgrades, in which case Debian Stable might still be a good pick so long as they read the release notes before upgrading.)

Relevant CGP Grey video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY&list=PLkLBH5Kzphe0Qu8mCW1Leef2xSxPK1FIe&index=4

The proposed map:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/2e542d49c9fb4dbcaa428afa06b15d7b

Finally, you say?

To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates fl(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.

http://ftp.demec.ufpr.br/CFD/bibliografia/Higham_2002_Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms.pdf

As PCGamer’s Andy Chalk suggests, the suspicion is that the lawyers have picked Unknown Worlds as plaintiff, rather than Krafton, because they think they’ll get more sympathy that way from Johnny Average Gamer.

They’re probably right about that. Many of us had never heard of Krafton until we learned about them avoiding payment of the bonuses they promised to the people actually making the game. That hasn’t exactly generated goodwill among gamers.

Can you link these studies, please?

I don’t validate emails, I test them.

Hooray! You get a gold star.

OK, maybe I do some light validation first,

I hope your “validation” does nothing more than show a warning that the user is allowed to ignore.

I have seen too many systems built by people who think they know what’s valid or not before and after the @ sign*, and they are almost always dead wrong. In the worst cases, such systems accept an unusual-looking address and claim to send the expected verification message, but never actually send it. Of course, these systems won’t work for some people, and since none of their online docs or support staff know why, those people will be locked out of using the system and funneled into bottomless pit of misery if they try. Please don’t build broken garbage like this.

*Fun fact: Not so terribly long ago, even the @ sign didn’t have to be present. Some email addresses were bang paths. I’m not sure if any of these are still in use, but it wouldn’t shock me to learn that they are.

Use a library

Please, no. If someone wrote email address “validation” complex enough to warrant a library, then their code is almost certainly wrong.

or check for only the @ and then send an email confirmation.

Yes. Do that.

If your boss demands a more detailed check at input time, then make it display warnings, not errors, and continue to the confirmation sending step if the user chooses to ignore the warning.

I would say that excludes them from my future purchases, but honestly, I’m hoping never to buy a car again. Public transit and bicycling are far cheaper, less polluting, and more sustainable (especially in population centers). Maybe I’ll spend a little of the money I save on an occasional day rental if needed.

Relevant scene:

Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.

Ukrainians feel betrayed.

So do Americans, I reckon.

Debian in general is not meant to run on the latest hardware.

When I see someone on social media claiming Debian is unsuitable for gaming, I know immediately that they don’t know what they’re talking about. I’ve been gaming on different distros since before Steam ran on Linux at all, and on Debian Stable for nearly a decade. This includes my current system, which was built a few months after the GPU was released.

In general, Debian can run just fine on new (Linux-compatible) hardware. If you’re talking about Debian Stable and hardware that was released less than a year ago, then you might have to pull in a newer kernel and/or firmware, but it’s not hard. In most cases, it’s as simple as enabling Debian’s Backports repository and installing the couple of new packages that you need. (You might not even have to do that, since Flatpak and Steam provide updates to much of what games need, but it would be wise to remember Backports anyway just in case you need them some day.)

The main thing to consider is that it’s not completely effortless. It will probably require a little more setup than a game-focused distro would, so if you’re considering Debian for a gaming system, you should know why you want it. For example, maybe you want a very low-maintenance system once it’s up and running. Or maybe Debian’s focus on Free software appeals to you. In such cases, a few extra steps when getting started might be worthwhile. But if you don’t have a specific need that Debian fills, then another distro might be more convenient.

Debian 13 is not going to get the latest versions of Nvidia drivers and there are better distros for us.

I don’t know if that’s true or not. Nvidia has a well-deserved reputation for making their hardware painful on Linux, and although the situation is less bad today than it once was, it’s still not great. If you’re determined to stick with them, then sure, a distro that does the extra work of packaging all of Nvidia’s driver releases might be a better choice for you.

(For what it’s worth, I finally ditched Nvidia in favor of AMD GPUs, and have been very happy with the results.)

That change is about True and False, not true and false. If OP was thinking of the former pair, it would seem my “different identifiers” guess was correct.

Python doesn’t have true or false keywords, nor any other primitives by those names.

So either you’re thinking of a different language, or different identifiers, or someone assigned equal values to variables with those names and then blogged about it.

License: Proprietary

Winux, previously known as Wubuntu and LinuxFX is a Linux distribution for personal computers based on the Kubuntu distribution and themed close to Windows 11. It bundles OnlyOffice and other software reminiscent of Windows. The Register claimed the distribution likely infringes on trademarks by Canonical and Microsoft, while ZDNet warns that it might be a scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winux