Just to be contrarian; I just had a sort of hilarious thought...

Everyone is complaining that Dolphin can't be in Steam. I agree, it's dumb (though putting emulators in Steam seems kind of odd, but I understand why it'd be useful for sure). But the on the flip side everyone complains about launchers. Emulators are launchers of large library of other games. Like literally, that's what they are. :P

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Quoting: boltronics

Quoting: ShabbyXSo why go through the trouble? Because it's *users* microsoft is buying.

A agree, at least to a point. It's not the only reason, since Activition gave them a very strong incentive.

Activision was threatening to pull CoD from Xbox unless they were cut a better deal. MS would have been getting a worse deal than Sony for the same rights because they have a worse bargaining position, being 3rd place in the console war. By buying Activision, they no longer need to worry about competing on uneven ground, and turn a great disadvantage into an advantage going forward.

Anyway, that's just another aspect to it, although a smaller point in the grand scheme of things (as I'll point out in a moment).

Quoting: ShabbyXAnd with users microsoft can keep its other businesses alive. More users on microsoft platforms == fewer users on other platforms == worse software support for other platforms.

This is incorrect.

In the end, the primary reason Microsoft purchased Activision was not because of CoD. It wasn't even about cloud gaming.

It was primarily about King.

Microsoft is desperate to compete in the mobile space, which dwarfs all of console gaming in potential revenue. These mobile games will not be on fewer platforms. Definitely not. If anything, they'll be on more platforms than ever.

As for CoD, it's is still going to be on PlayStation. It's going to end up being basically everywhere. Sure, this and the other games in the Blizzard/Activision catalogue will help GamePass (and many of the smaller console/PC games will likely remain exclusive to MS and Steam, no argument there), but it hardly means that there will be fewer users on other platforms.

Why is this? Did you watch the Kinda Funny interview? Phil Spencer himself said that Microsoft could release the best games possible on Xbox today, and it still won't stop people buying a PlayStation. At best, people might play games from both ecosystems. PlayStation is too far ahead when it comes to the average gamer's digital library, and unless Sony make some really anti-consumer moves that drive people away (similar to what MS tried to do in the previous console generation), it's going to take a long time before we see that change.

You mention mobile gaming being so huge... ha, the only way I could ever see myself getting into mobile gaming is if Valve makes a phone that runs SteamOS that can physically morph into a Z Fold style phone. We may need Nanites or something... granted, then we'll probably have to go to war with them like in Stargate SG-1...

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Quoting: minidouhopefully they bring all their games to steam

Ha, I only want Rock N' Roll Racing, and maybe Lost Vikings... I already have Diablo 1 on GoG.

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Quoting: Belaptir

QuoteFinally. One less extra launcher to become a nuisance?

Yeah... I hate to break it to you mate but... Have you seen EA, UBISOFT and all the other games on Steam from companies that have their own Launcher? If any, I'd say it's going to be "one more extra launcher to deal with on every stupid update they do" (looking at you, Ubisoft and EA).

I believe the worse are the ones like Take2 (I think it was them) that added a launcher where there wasn't one before... Conan Exiles did as well, though that's easily bypassed.

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Quoting: ronnocI just don't get their disdain for KDE Plasma. I used to use Mint for YEARS. And was a paying client. Then they said a whole lotta "nope" for KDE. My best guess is that Clem hates KDE and left the community to support Plasma users. But when the Mint "tools" came out, Plasma was left in the dust.

In my mind Mint does not innovate much, and are a little too conservative for my tastes these days, but if they still had an officially supported Plasma edition, I would not hesitate to install it on a newbies computer (or my Grandma's).

I think Mint is the 'not the big DE' distro, as they don't ship a Gnome version either. They try and ship options for all the smaller / alternate DEs. I guess whatever works for them, but I'm generally a Gnome user, so for the most part stick to Debian. Although a big part of that is how long I've been using Linux, I've seen many excellent Debian based distributions come and go over the decades. Storm Linux and Corel Linux were really good for a short while. Mint and Ubuntu definitely have lasted a long time, and I don't see them going away, but it has taught me to just stay with Debian.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: dziadulewiczLinux Uprising ended up on numbers where 0.7% came from Mints repos, 99.3% from Ubuntu's. If this is true even to day, it is huge.

So did Canonical, or even Debian, write all that software in those repos?

No, but to be fair a lot of the software in those repos are by the writers of the software.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderWhat a "shitty" looking game....... Plays like utter "crap" too......

And the protagonist is a literal arsehole, too!

"Keep firing, Assholes!"

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Quoting: theflamingchickenLuckily, so far it seems like there's no massive Linux banwave incoming. I can't fathom why my poor wife became so unlucky as to be the victim of an anti Linux rogue anti cheat, though. We were playing together on Steam Decks with identical configurations. We are in the process of appealing the ban, but they don't make it straightforward.

Comes down to... just not giving Blizzard any money. That's been my rule since Diablo 2, though I did end up getting D3 to play with my brother... and it sucked, so definitely not giving them money for D4.

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Quoting: vengador4201

Quoting: dziadulewiczA big hand to Ubuntu also: Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS and Mint uses Ubuntu's software repositories without any compensation

And Ubuntu uses Debian's repositories, though I don't know for sure that it's "without compensation". That's kinda how open source software works.

I was going to ask if anyone is running LMDE and ask how it is compared to the main Mint release. If I didn't use Debian, I would probably run that.

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This seems to be the perfect combination; play some Pooshooter on the Steam Deck while dropping bombs!

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