misk @ misk @sopuli.xyz

Mastodon: @[misk@pol.social](https://pol.social/@misk)

---

Read more

Posts

1,818

Comments

1,447

Joined

2 yr. ago

And this is how people will explain why upcoming technofeudalism is a good thing. Our new masters have earned it :)

Lots of new EU regulations specifically target scenarios like this because that’s in the interest of consumers. Governments should work for the people, not winners with the most money.

[edit] You’d think you’d get more people against big tech on Lemmy lol.

It is where it is because it was the first.

If tomorrow someone made a better Steam you’d still buy everything there because that’s where all your games are. Be honest with yourself.

It’s easy to do that when you employ couple of hundred people while taking 30% cut of 90% of PC game sales.

Steam should be broken up as a monopoly that it is. Decouple infrastructure from the store, allow others to pay fair price for access to it and game prices would go down in an instant. That’s how telecom monopolies were broken up where I live with wonderful results. Console makers should allow alternative stores too now that they don’t subsidise hardware.

The reason Steam is #1 is because they were first to the market and everyone’s so invested into it.

That’s why today’s business model is „dump VC money until you’re ubiquitous, once monopolised drive the prices up”. We see that with things like Just Eat / Glovo, Steam or YouTube.

I don’t hate on anyone, I literally have some hardware from all of the major companies. It’s possible to have different opinions on different things they do. They are products of corporations that are so huge and internally disconnected that end result can be inconsistent so that’s just how things are. Of course all exist for profit so I rarely get angry with consequences of capitalism unless taken to extreme.

Today’s Valve is scummiest of all, very little redeeming qualities and that’s my honest opinion, not being contrarian. It irks me doubly because they are so idolised. Valve monopolised PC digital storefronts. They don’t make games, they make digital casinos. They market those casinos to children. They have a history of abandoning things. The only reason they fund Wine development is to safeguard and entrench their monopoly even further. It was CodeWeavers and not Valve that sponsored Wine development through difficult times. In 10-15 years, if they are successful in their plans, they’ll turn SteamOS into something like modern day Android, another locked down platform with no major benefit to desktop Linux. I’ll be there with „told you so” but that actually gives me no kick.

Never thought I’d give people a valid reason to.

I genuinely think this way, getting a kick out of pointing out hypocrisy is just a bonus.

As to USB-C location - port on top solves being able to charge while resting Switch on your knees but doesn’t solve the issue of how goofy the entire setup is in constrained spaces like on a train or plane and I’m speaking from experience.

Can you point me to something I refuse to acknowledge specifically? Or is this as made up as things said in the other argument that I had here just now lol.

Who are you trying to bs saying Wine will solve the issues? Wine app DB is a public thing, Winetricks use is assumed for most entries.

I’m done, bye.

Have you considered addressing the fact that ProtonDB lists about 40% of Windows games as incompatible?

Let me paint a picture here.

My main computer is a MacBook Air M1, running Mac OS.

My HTPC / home server is an old Steam Machine, Asus GR6. It runs Ubuntu. It has Steam installed and a library of ~500 games btw.

I play current gen games on Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2.

My only Windows machine is an old ThinkPad that I use to flash settings to my car.

I also own plethora of vintage portable consoles and some FPGA for retro stuff.

But I commited blasphemy against Valve, and therefore I’m a Windows troll. Lol, grow up.

Well, Valve fanboys don’t seem to be concerned with factuality so that might work for you. Hopefully normal people see this for what it is.

I appreciate your perseverance in the face of well sourced facts and that you did that without providing anything yourself.

I cannot wait to play Pauline of the Kongdom: Odyssey. Was really uninterested in this before but I’ll probably get a used copy now.

I think that’s plain to see by now, even for the investors. They still hold on to saying they’re going to release 10th gen hardware but that could be a PC by then. There are upsides to this for gamers potentially though as I doubt they’ll leave legacy Xbox games stranded and more people will get access to them.

You sound like your main issue is that I don’t attempt to fit in. You’ll have to deal with that.

You know that I use Linux too and I know being able to run anything is just bs?

My guess is that this device will upsell you on GamePass constantly by making everything else possible but slightly annoying. MS might be the biggest video game publisher these days so there’s still plenty of leverage they have (buying ActiBlizz was huge and EA could be in trouble because FC 25 is not selling as well as FIFA). MS „lost” console war but this allows them to keep foot in the door and still exert some power over the platform.

Saying that Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and support when they are forcing everyone to either pay for win10 support or join the win11 spyware mafia is a ludicrous statement btw.

What are you using as a benchmark? Is there any OS that supports hardware or software this long? Find an original Quake 3 Linux installer and see how that goes. Not sure what spyware has to do with that.

Games with kernel-level anticheat do work on Linux, if the anticheat provider has done the work. Right now, most don't and actively stopped supporting Linux so saying that won't work ever is kind of a stretch.

To an end user this is a Linux problem. Like, „Haiku OS can run all the games except developers don’t support it” won’t cut it as an explanation for why your games don’t work.

"Isn't good enough to replace windows" - here I am playing Modded games, path of exile, ffxiv, other FF games, cyberpunk, all PC monster Hunter games.... Your statement is false.

You’re playing some games. Same can be said about Switch yet everybody here acts like it is some huge failure.

I see nothing wrong with using a compatibility layer, it does the work of retrocompatibility alongside separating game environments, which is good for security.

It is reverse engineered and with the level of complexity of Windows and Windows being a moving target it will never get there 100%. You have to make a conscious choice to lose access to some of your games when moving from Windows, and possibly lose access to some games that worked on Linux previously after you moved.

Microsoft is likely to develop a stripped down version of Windows for those handhelds. Windows isn’t fundamentally incapable of low overhead and Xbox runs something similar.

As to why you’d want to use Windows even if you’re tech savvy there are loads of reasons:

• Native access to other digital storefronts (Valve wants to lock you in with Steam Deck)
• Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and long term support seriously, unlike Valve that has a history of abandoning things when they no longer found them immediately profitable
• There are plenty of games with kernel-level anti-cheat that won’t work with Wine/Proton ever
• Wine/Proton compatibility isn’t good enough to replace Windows
• Valve pushes Proton so heavily that developers stopped creating native Linux ports so the above is unlikely to change anytime soon

But there are also good reasons to go with SD like very very good VRR screen utilisation (Xbox is also good at this so maybe there’s hope for Windows).