I've used Humble a couple of times: - Sometimes their book bundles <https://www.humblebundle.com/books> can be really good deals if you're interested in the themes on offer - They sometimes have sales on games and DLCs <https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?sort=bestselling&filter=onsale>; You pay them the discounted price and they give you a voucher redeemable at Steam or the appropriate platform. I never thought much of the subscription service as it offered lots of access to stuff -- mainly games -- that didn't interest me. Much like Google's doomed Stadia platform. Let's face it, the Linux desktop -- even counting Chromebooks -- has never broken 8% share, and is simply not the platform choice of gamers (who besides Windows prefer dedicated units like Playstations and Switches). Windows 11 shenanigans *might* turn lots of people to Linux on older hardware, but probably not enough to break double digits. It's an easy decision for the to drop support for such a low-use target. I do not expect this to affect their book or software sales offerings. This might be a symbolic loss -- reminder of the reality that the year of the Linux desktop will likely never come in our lifetimes despite many valiant attempts -- but I doubt it will be missed. Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 16:36, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

I've never used it, so I don't know what I'm talking about.

If you need to fetch anything from their server, do it now.

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