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KDE Wayland user here. I have never observed this issue myself, and I leave Steam running all the time (although I never open Steam Chat).


Although, not albeit.

You have a slave sentence there. These are incompatible with albeit.


Thanks, fixed! "Albeit" seemed like it would work, but "although" indeed fits much better.


To put it another way, albeit shouldn't be used with independent clauses.

1. I leave Steam running all the time (although I never open Steam Chat).

2. I leave Steam running all the time (albeit never with Steam Chat).

"I never open Steam Chat" can stand on its own as a sentence, but "never with Steam Chat" does not and thus can be appropriately modified with albeit.


I kinda wish HN allowed a visual indicator for subthreads that focus on tangents that don't hold universal appeal: comment grammar, humor, "why did I get downvoted?", etc.

There are lots of little discussions like this that I'd love to have, but which sometimes lead to a lot of downvotes.




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