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Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: GuestIndie devs: port their games to every platform possible, flawless native linux ports.
AAA studios with billions of dollards profit: wE cAn't aFfOrD LiNUx sUpPoRt uwu

just admit that game industry is full of incompetent useless people managed by greedy billioners. even though you buy all games, you don't support developers. you support upper management's annual paychecks so they buy another yacht size of aircraft carrier

The issue is real and has nothing to do with greed or incompetency. Indie titles are far less likely to be targetted by cheaters than the big titles, so indie devs don't need to spend much time, if at all, fighting cheaters; for them it's usually just a matter of flipping on the switch in the engine. Big titles on the other hand are usually targetted by a lot of cheaters, and by more sophisticated cheaters and it takes a lot of efforts to fight those on different platforms.

CSGO: native linux port
Dota 2: native linux port
Both games are big and targeted by cheaters. but somehow Valve did it, and Gaben didn't go broke. It's possible after all, ey? Not that complicated.

Stop defending greedy publishers and incompetent devs, you don't make any sense.

You are comparing a corporate with another corporate. That's different from the original comment which was comparing indies with big titles indicating that indies can do the job that big corporations are failing to do. I'm not defending big corps, I'm just stating the fact that indies aren't doing the same job as big corporations because they are not faced by the same problem in the first place.

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Quoting: GuestIndie devs: port their games to every platform possible, flawless native linux ports.
AAA studios with billions of dollards profit: wE cAn't aFfOrD LiNUx sUpPoRt uwu

just admit that game industry is full of incompetent useless people managed by greedy billioners. even though you buy all games, you don't support developers. you support upper management's annual paychecks so they buy another yacht size of aircraft carrier

The issue is real and has nothing to do with greed or incompetency. Indie titles are far less likely to be targetted by cheaters than the big titles, so indie devs don't need to spend much time, if at all, fighting cheaters; for them it's usually just a matter of flipping on the switch in the engine. Big titles on the other hand are usually targetted by a lot of cheaters, and by more sophisticated cheaters and it takes a lot of efforts to fight those on different platforms.

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Quoting: sarmadThis is not necessarily true. Snaps are independent from Ubuntu. If you go to the snap store you'll see no Ubuntu branding there. Canonical is marketing snap as a Linux store, not as an Ubuntu store, much like Steam is a Linux gaming store regardless of which distro you're using. So, if people have no problem installing Steam, which is proprietary and tightly controlled by Valve, why would they have problem installing snap, which at least has an open source client?

Because there's no real alternative to Steam, but there is for Snap. And if you want to know what's wrong with Snap from the view of all other distributions, just ask Ubuntu:

Canonical does have total and complete control over the Ubuntu archive that apt uses. And Canonical has total and complete control over the Snap repository. If something goes wrong and Canonical must step it, they can.

For a lot of apps there is no alternative to snap store either, since a lot of third party providers only publish their apps in snap store. Most people don't put too much emphasis on the what-if like you do, they just think the store is available now and it serves their purpose so they use it, if something goes wrong with Canonical they'll look for an alternative. Canonical owns the store, but not the apps. If something goes wrong with the store, the publishers will publish their apps somewhere else.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumOooh.. so that's why I'm banned now. It's a bit unfair in my opinion, but okay

Totally unfair that people like you are allowed to use the internet.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe only way Snaps become dominant is if Ubuntu grows and displaces the use of most other distros.

This is not necessarily true. Snaps are independent from Ubuntu. If you go to the snap store you'll see no Ubuntu branding there. Canonical is marketing snap as a Linux store, not as an Ubuntu store, much like Steam is a Linux gaming store regardless of which distro you're using. So, if people have no problem installing Steam, which is proprietary and tightly controlled by Valve, why would they have problem installing snap, which at least has an open source client?

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Quoting: whizseI can't say I have a stake in this, but it's interesting to ponder that Ubuntu seems to have a habit of betting on the wrong horse, Mir and upstart, for example.

Except that this time around they are betting on the right horse. snap is more mature than flatpak (gives the user more granular control over permissions, can be used for cli apps, can be used for non-sandboxed apps, can be used with system services, etc), snapcraft is more mature than flathub (it takes me 10 minutes to update flatpak vs the less than a minute snap takes to update), and snap has much wider adoption from 3rd party app vendors.

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Well done, Valve. Those people need to be banned from all online gaming, not just DOTA. I hope they share their info with other online games so they can get banned there as well.

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As usual, Valve games just refuse to die. Maybe I should pick Team Fortress again to see what's new.

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääAll already sold out??

64GB
eMMC (Out of stock - reserve now)


256GB
NVMe SSD (Out of stock - reserve now)


512GB
NVMe SSD (Out of stock - reserve now)

https://steamdeck.komodo.jp/product/steam-deck/?lang=en

Looks like you spoke too soon, Liam. Good to see it doing well though.

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Speaking of Atari, is the VCS still in the market and is this also releasing on the VCS?

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