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Quoting: Salvatosnot made up ammunition for baseless prejudice

What's the 'baseless prejudice' regarding Denuvo?

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And Sony is going to release firmware that will disable this "unintended harmful functionality" in THREE, TWO, ONE!
Seen it all before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AJmAcpciBs&t=1s

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

I have Bazzite on my Ally, Nvidia 1660 gaming laptop, and all AMD Desktop since August last year and it's all super smooth. I count myself lucky though as the hardware always worked great under Linux. I previously used Ubuntu on everything, but the 25.10 upgrade was such a catastrophe and left my PC unusable that I dropped it in favor of Bazzite, and never looked back. I mostly do gaming, web browsing, and some light development stuff.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

Bazzite is an *excellent* daily driver, far better than anything else. I've had it for a year and a half, with zero issues! Meanwhile with Ubuntu something was always broken and I had to fix things constantly. Bazzite worked better from day one, it's absolutely amazing and it's unbreakable.

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Quoting: Talon1024The Blender Foundation is getting absolutely roasted for accepting this "donation", and rightfully so!

As an open source project, their ultimate goal should be to have a good feedback loop between their users and the developers. It even says, in enormous letters, on the front page of the Blender website:

It's about people.

Accepting this donation, from a company that represents everything wrong with the tech industry over the past 8 years, betrays that goal of having goodwill between the users and developers.

It would be wise for them to return the money, and deny any future donations from them, or any other company whose primary product is an AI or LLM.

the alternative is to let those "people" keep the money I'm more than happy with them taking it so long as they're not beholden to anything they say

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Upgraded yesterday as well with not a single issue. I am on workstation and all I can say is that it still runs great. I already noticed higher framerates on a hand full of games, even though my 9060 it was already running everything pretty darn well.

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lol. lmao, even. nice investment morons

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That's a shame 2K is using Midnight Suns as a testbed for this crap, nobody bought it despite being a genuinely great game and now even less people will bother with it because of this.

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Quoting: williamjcmPirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

Was looking for the Downvote button, then I realized this isn't Reddit.

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MIT license, for those who are wondering.

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Quoting: Serious_TableWe're not seriously going out of our way, on a Linux-specialized news site, to try and protect the honor of a DRM vendor that can lock you out of playing your game by changing your Proton version, are we? Because that's what it looks like.

Personally I’m here for truthful news, not made up ammunition for baseless prejudice. If I’m going to hate Denuvo, let it be for what it actually is, not exaggerations and false claims.

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Quoting: TangoBakerBecause there's a game that everyone's dying to get their hands on. C'mon guys, at this point, you should be paying people to play midnight suns.

Never heard of Disney Midnight Suns. Is 2K really so paranoid? Speaking of paranoid, Disney have been pulling a bunch of games from Steam so it probably won't be around for long anyway.

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I'm probably going to get under fire for saying this but - the problem with Denuvo is that people keep buying games released with it. If a game has DRM, I will simply not buy it regardless of how shiny and modern it is. Logging into my account to download a game I paid for is the only check there's needed.

As for 2K DRM - LOL, it will eventually be bypassed. If they managed to break the steel wall of Denuvo, they will find a way to break the wooden one from 2K too.

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Marvel's Midnight Suns

Because there's a game that everyone's dying to get their hands on. C'mon guys, at this point, you should be paying people to play midnight suns.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

Absolutely fantastic. I regret putting Ubuntu on anything else in my home. I'm heavily into containers, k8s, etc for work though so I'm already used to just doing everything in things like distrobox. There have been instances where something doesn't work, but you run update, restart and its all good again.

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Denuvo DRM reportedly fully cracked open

That's a very far stretch. Which should be clear when you follow the link to reddit:
`Hypervisor workaround by DenuvOwO`.

They just use some workaround with a hypervisor (which needs to deactivate important security features in windows *outch*), but they did not crack Denuvo.

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Quoting: Claude_Lib

We also have the new Remote Downloads Management feature, which allows you to control downloads on other systems like adjusting downloads on a Steam Deck or other handhelds from your PC. Quite a useful one if you have multiple systems in a household.

It only allows starting downloads that are already pending, not initiating new downloads on a remote device, for that I still have to open my community profile, go to Games, find the game and download it from there, I can't do it directly from the library, so that's kinda useless.
Also, a bunch of non-Steam shortcuts from my desktop popped up on my Deck with the "Stream" button instead of "Play". Maybe it's related to Remote Play, but I double checked and it's disabled everywhere. Anyone else having that issue?
Okay, for the non-Steam shortcuts issue, I had to switch the Remote Play toggle on and off several times on both devices, then it fixed itself.

You can install a game on another device directly from the Steam Library. Not the best flow, as it thinks you want to stream it, but it works.

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Denuvo bad, but also ya as Tom's said this Hypervisor bypass has you run a script to take basically all low-level security down and restart for it to work. The cracks (I've seen them through FitGirl Repacks) provide the scripts to take it down and bring it back up, but these are hackers writing it by definition, so I hope everyone takes appropriate precautions and that Windows users don't forget to bring their stuff back up...

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Quoting: williamjcmThe hypervisor bypass actually harms performance, by the way. I remember a post comparing performance in RE9 between the legit version and the actual crack, but the "legit" side of it was actually with the bypass applied, while the actual, unmodified game actually performed on par with the cracked version.

Pirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

We're not seriously going out of our way, on a Linux-specialized news site, to try and protect the honor of a DRM vendor that can lock you out of playing your game by changing your Proton version, are we? Because that's what it looks like.

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Denuvo was cracked so 2K is adding online checks... that won't affect pirates.

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Quoting: d3Xt3rNow do Bazaar next please. We don't need no GTK apps on KDE.

What application would you want to replace it? Discover exists, but I feel its far more buggy when handling flatpaks compared to Bazaar.

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> Ptyxis has been dropped from our KDE images, and the new Konsole terminal is available with container support.

Hallelujah! This is the one change I'm looking forward to the most. I always disliked Ptyxis and Bazzite's bizzare decision to drop Konsole in favor of it. Ptyxis looked so out-of-place on KDE.

Now do Bazaar next please. We don't need no GTK apps on KDE.

Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

I've been using Bazzite as a daily-driver on my ThinkPad for ~3 years and it's been rock solid. Literally zero issues. Been using it for both work and gaming. AMA.

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We also have the new Remote Downloads Management feature, which allows you to control downloads on other systems like adjusting downloads on a Steam Deck or other handhelds from your PC. Quite a useful one if you have multiple systems in a household.

It only allows starting downloads that are already pending, not initiating new downloads on a remote device, for that I still have to open my community profile, go to Games, find the game and download it from there, I can't do it directly from the library, so that's kinda useless.
Also, a bunch of non-Steam shortcuts from my desktop popped up on my Deck with the "Stream" button instead of "Play". Maybe it's related to Remote Play, but I double checked and it's disabled everywhere. Anyone else having that issue?
Okay, for the non-Steam shortcuts issue, I had to switch the Remote Play toggle on and off several times on both devices, then it fixed itself.

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The hypervisor bypass actually harms performance, by the way. I remember a post comparing performance in RE9 between the legit version and the actual crack, but the "legit" side of it was actually with the bypass applied, while the actual, unmodified game actually performed on par with the cracked version.

Pirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

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Nothing wrong with taking this money. As the saying goes, "pecunia non olet".

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The Stop Killing Game initiative really needs to success at pushing the EU into putting a few laws to prevent game publisher that require online activation for offline, solo game, to be able to kill them at this point.

Because this is getting really bothersome at this point.

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Tempting! I like the real leather ones - is that true, is it real leather?
Well, we've got to be lucky and get one, first. Did they add a note on when exactly the sale goes live? I guess you have to be there within minutes to get one.
Edit: yes, indeed, it IS real leather. Wow.

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I must be missing something because I truly don't see the problem with local models run on local hardware. There are SO many problems with AI today but this case strikes me as a "storm in a drinking glass". Canonical is even distributing it in a easily removable, containerized Snap. What am I missing? Isn't this a best case scenario? Like if everyone was handling AI like this most people would be singing Hallelujah.

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How is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

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once again punishes legitimate players

Right on the nose. This is why I detest Denuvo. It's not about performance hits, it's just that it treats the customer like a criminal.

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