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  • Gradle is pretty awful actually, I’ve had to deal with it for years when I was writing Java. It’s pretty much the #1 reason I’ve stopped doing anything Java related.

    Meson is the well designed option for C family languages. It also has support for Java, Rust, Swift, and a couple other languages. C is the most well supported though I think.

    It also has a built-in dependency downloader that respects the system installed packages (and therefore distro packagers).










  • All of the names containing “rus”/"русь"1 ultimately come from Русь from where Russia and Belarus both inherit their names.

    So, the name of the country Belarus literally means “White Rus”, and it seems like the Dutch word I assume you’re talking about for the country (Wit-Rusland) was borrowed from the Russian word белоруссия and (incorrectly, I guess?) translated as white (бело) + Russia (руссия) despite the “руссия” also in this word referring to Rus and not Russia (spelled differently as Россия).

    1 the word Россия, too, but from what I can find it is borrowed from Greek and the others including Русь from Arabic, hence the different vowel




  • I’ll have to try on Linux but my portable disk is exFAT and I use it for Steam games on my MacBook (both native and Windows) with no issues. Though, that’s through the classic way of running Steam in Wine since there’s no Proton.

    Maybe Steam tries to put the Proton prefixes on the drive along with the games and that’s the problem? Wine certainly does need symlink capable FS to work.

    If there isn’t already, I’d report this on the Steam for Linux issue tracker (on GitHub for some reason).

    video games in general rely on symlinks

    No they don’t, any more than any other application. Video game files certainly don’t contain any symlinks usually.