I'm sure the second iteration will be awesome like the first one. I'm more skeptical that the game devs will actually exploit its functionalities when console market is still bound to abxy.

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On the other hand these policies make me remember the time when on line stores were not here, you would just buy a CD, in whatever country you wanted, and then download a file with the patch if you wanted.

And yes, I would say this was a hassle. But was it more hussle than what it is (artificially produced) now? I don't think so.

It's a Service Issue, not a technology problem.

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I mean... what would they expect him to say? The truth?

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhat does "requires manual removal" in the second screenshot mean?

Like any good old proper spyware, once it infests your kernel it won't just go away with a "pretty please".

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Yeah a lot of misinformation on this. Ofc one will always buy just a license. The actual consumer battle is on what this license enables you to do (play on whatever machine you want, mod the game, play off line, perpetual validity, etc). Legislators should just focus on this.

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What? 20 years? How is it possible? When did that time pass by?

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Gaben lives in New Zealand now right? We could definitely use a commercial where he shows off his Steam Deck. These ones are starting to grow old and the Internet demands that we get a 2024 reboot.

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Quoting: JosephLinux is still too hard for the non-technical people to use; it’s better than it was, but not quite there yet.

Ugh. I hate it when people parrot this claim.

Many modern Linux-based operating systems are just as easy to use as a typical Microsoft Windows operating system these days (certain distros could probably even claim they're easier to use!), and one can get by without ever touching Terminal or doing anything unusually "technical"... The option is still there of course, and many Linux users (myself included) prefer to use Terminal and things like that; but in 99% of cases, you can get by just fine without ever going down that path.

What needs to happen is that the Linux Community needs to shakes this "It's so technical most everyday users can't use it" reputation, because it's a reputation that's simply not true anymore.

I've been on Linux for few years now, and I've had harder to fix issues on it than on Windows, such as software/OS slowly breaking every few updates - KDE has a list of issues for me that I can't seem to find peolople talk about (for example I cant switch displays without plasmashell completely breaking and needing to be terminated, or kwin just deciding to eat up all CPU power)
Web driver related problems were especially hell,
Modding games is way harder sometimes (thankfully Nexus might be tackling that slowly), dealing with Wine can still be dependency hell if you decide to run .exes off the net, winetricks is great but the average joe wouldnt want to use that.
Not to mention I've had countless liveCDs suddenly crash on me when left on idle when trying to distrohop, no matter the distro/usb drive/port used.

Dont get me wrong I love Linux and would never go back to Windows even though Ive also had to leave good amount of games and software behind, but I'd say the above can really ruin someone's experience, I'm scared to see how pipewire is set up now on my install lol it started giving me issues as well after a certain system update

I wasn't necessarily talking about linux but of the issue of spyware messing up kernel. You can have that on linux as well, you just need to patch the kernel. But on linux today that requires explicit user approval... which is mainly why gaming spyware doesn't like it.

My point is that sooner or later some global incident will happen on windows, and then it will happen again, since on Windows everybody regularly allow all kind of spyware/junk in the kernel with auto updates, without knowing what is coming in, closed source and purely based on the reputation of the vendor. This is in banking, finance, airport, energy grid, hospitals and whatever else. Sometimes it is even required by law.

It should be obvious to everyone that if a system is built by design so that bad things can happen, they will eventually happen. More so if bad actors can profit from that and have interest into make it happen.

And, for all that I know, now that linux starts to be adopted by many EU public administrations, it can even be they will mandate to have the same shit possible there as well by law. So it might even become a linux issue in the long term.

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Ihmo security incidents on windows will keep repeating and sooner or later it will become obvious to the masses as well the dangers of running stuff inside the kernel.

So not today, not tomorrow, but kernel tampering will eventually become a non accceptable practice.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismthan SC2 was -- which took more liberties and made Terran out to sound like redneck hicks that like country music -- which was offputting.

Uhmmm... no? You need to know that for a long time across sci fi lovers the most loved franchise use to be Firefly. Now that show was a victim of the generalists TV industry in the USA and wasn't renew for a second season. But indeed it was a memorable show.

The SC2 devs saw connection between Raynor situation and the Firefly show (then who knows which one infleced the other, maybe Firefly took from sc1). Both took place in a world where humanity left Earth, both has a setting with 3 powerful central planets where there original colonizing ships landed (in SC that would be Tarsonis, Umoya and Moria), both had a struggle between these central powers and their own "backwater" colonies. There were psi gifted guys, tipically troubled girls. And ofc the main protagonists is guy from a forgotten and abused colony, he used to fight a freedom war against a tirannic power, ultimately lost, and then in the aftermath became a renegade making a life outside the law with a bunch of rebels across the fringe.

Now... I can clearly see that if the original idea was to make Hyperion like the Firefly that was totally lost. Hyperion is a former capital ship, Firefly a small cargo. But as for the overall setting, super advanced core worlds and fringe colonies where the life feels like the old wild west, I can see the connection and having the music recall the Firefly show was appreciated a lot at that time.

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