I was questioning this, when i first tried Altstore PAL. As it stands now, you pay a buck for the "technology fee", and get access to a severely crippled app store, that currently serves a grand total of two applications.
Calling this malicious compliance would be an understatement.
I loved Gothic to death, and 2 is my all-time favorite game, but after having their wrists slit by the publisher with Gothic 3, and everything happening after the release of that, I am not upset it's over.
The quality of ELEX was miserably bad in every way imaginable, and it only got worse with ELEX2. Risen had great potential with the first game, but completely flopped it with the next two.
For a lack of a better expression, they were a one-trick pony, and rode that wave of success into their eventual grave.
I'm not sure how substantiated these claims are, but i've also heard that most of the original team have left years before the shutdown either way, so essentially, what was left of Piranha Byte is just a husk of what used to be
That is unbelievably depressing. Once housing became a collectible, rather than a life necessity, it was all over. Not to mention that for some fucking reason, private businesses are allowed to buy residential property
It's always an issue of service. Make it more available. Adjust the price. Increase content availability. It's not a rocket science problem, it's just a problem of corporate greed, and law abuse
I've just switched my secondary machine to Nix, and was in the process of switching my main too, so it really is quite a shame. I'm really enjoying the distribution, but if the organization continues to have colossal government issues, and repelling active packagers, that's really not a good sign
Pretty much every brand, that was doing business there before, does it the exact same way, but under a shell company name. Capitalism doesn't give a fuck who's doing what, and how wrong it is
Allowing these companies to ever sell anything with the "cloud" marketing was a colossal mistake. Not only it was a waste of people's money, but now also e-waste
This is it, pretty much. I don't agree with people who are aggressively against Nintendo in general, especially in cases like the MIG-Switch, but at the same time, they operate in such a bizarre grey area. It's unbelievably stupid to both prevent software preservation, and not allow legal ways to obtain those titles
Even with all the privacy concerns aside, I absolutely fucking despise it, when I cannot use my computer the way I want it to be used. That alone would have been enough to convince me to switch. Not to mention that trying to fix issues is a waste of effort, because the system internals are obscured into oblivion. Looking up any issue results in a generic "have you tried turning it off" answer from a Microsoft forum bot.
I like how the Linux kernel works, and I like how things around it are designed. It's much simpler, a lot more straight-forward, and I can setup shit how I like it. It's almost as if people who are working on Windows know that they want to tighten their grip over your system, to the extremes, but at the same time, don't have the reputation of Apple, to be let off the hook, when they pull complete bullshit moves every time
I hope this ends up being better, than what Vortex was built to be.
After hearing that one of the primary developers behind Mod Organizer got hired, i was super excited, but Vortex ended up being inferior in… practically every single way. I still wouldn’t recommend it even to brand new people, because the learning curve of MO is considerably lower, than the error fixing curve with the other
I've returned to the game too, after a fairly long break, and ended up settling on Thuldor's preset. I love Simonrim, so it saved me the time on putting it together, but all the newest fixes/modernization efforts are there too. Strongly recommended. The leveling process is completely different, and that's something I haven't tried before. About 60 hours in, it's really damn solid
I wasn’t having many issues to begin with, but with the introduction of explicit sync into Kwin, and driver improvements throughout the 555 beta series, it’s been just about perfect for me.
The only issue i’ve encountered so far is the panel freezing sometimes. Submit a bug report to both KDE and Nvidia, they’re working on it.
I always find it interesting, when people claim they don't like Arch, because it breaks, supposedly.
Out of genuine curiosity, what did you find, that kept breaking, that wasn't user error, and wasn't easily reparable?