Yup. I got nothing against Wayland, but been waiting on this particular use case to get tooling for years now.

That, and it was slightly more justifiable when these companies were first setting up and operating networks for the services and matchmaking. Economies of scale should have nullified that by now, though.

The other big one I don’t see people mentioning, but that I remember clearly, was that if you wanted to use Netflix on 360, you had to pay for Live. I think that, above anything else in my friend group, was the move that normalized paying for online services on a console.

Client machine is a Windows box, and I can’t change that, unfortunately.

I haven’t tried it yet because it appears to be a client, and my Linux machine is the synergy server in my setup (work windows laptop is the client).

There a synergy/barrier replacement working on Wayland yet?

No?

Then I guess Wayland isn’t ready yet.

At first, we grumbled but did it because we knew that running the services had a cost. Then it got normalized. “Eh, it’s the price of one game a year, and I get to play whatever online and get three ‘free’ games a month, so it’s a good deal.”

Now, it’s not a good deal anymore, at least for me. Hit the “Cancel” button on my sub not 5 minutes ago.

I grew up on consoles, spent my teens on PC, and my adult life I’ve always kept both around, because I love games, regardless of where they are, but yeah. Most of my multiplayer was already on PC, this just solidifies my PS5 as a media/single player game appliance.

Yup, 3 is amazing until the last 10-15min. So many satisfying conclusions to story threads started in 1 or 2.

I ran Gentoo for years. I run Arch now.

You’re not wrong, lol.

'Course, I was running Gentoo when hardware was slow enough that you could see the real-time performance improvement from tailored compiles. Now shit’s so fast that any gains are imperceptible by a human for day-to-day desktop usage. Arch can also be a bit of a time sink, I get it, especially setting it up takes time and thought. That’s also why I like it, and always come back to it: I can set it up exactly how I want it, and it’s really good at that. There’s always weird shit that seems to happen to me when I try to remove Gnome in Ubuntu or other crazy shit that, yeah, everyone would tell you not to do, but Arch doesn’t care. If I want combination of things, I can hunt for a distro that has it, or I can likely just set it up on Arch.

After setup, though, it’s not any more effort to maintain than any other distro. shrug

Form and function are inextricably linked: one will inform the other. A lot of the ergo-split community focuses on the use case where you move your hands as little as possible, and the designs tend to revolve around maximizing that ideal. And they are damn good at it. The drawback, as you note, is that it’s a design that expects you not to move your hands around: it encourages keyboard navigation and shortcuts in place of using the mouse as much as possible.

That said, you can get around it. You can use layers to move common shortcuts to the left hand, so you don’t have to do the whole “Stretch my hand across two units” dance. Or, you can look into something like a macro pad.

Me, I just deal. The comfort when typing is well worth the tradeoff, to me. I’ll favor avoiding the mouse when possible, and just dance my one hand across both halves when needed. It’s not a huge deal to me, but the whole point is personalization: find what works best for you!