Anticheat is so dumb. It's just like DRM... The only thing that reliable stops cheating is a paywall, but that of course would destroy games like fortnite. The only remotely acceptable anticheat is VAC anyway. That one doesn't need access to your credit card either.

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Will it unlock the optional content (bank, resort maps) for hitman 2 if i own just the base games, or will i have to also buy that for a 100 eurs?

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Why would people want to use this on debian? People that worry so much about security should use Cubes OS anyway. The only thing any of these actually come in handy for is handling multiple versions of the same software (so pretty much wine), but other than that they don't offer any benefits that already existing solutions don't do better.

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I don't really care for it, while i do run some wine games i'm not paying 60-100 eur for them, as they tend to cost nowadays. I'd only consider paying more than about 10-15 eur for games that run natively. I don't really see how the microsoft acquisiton will change these studios' non-interest in linux, seems like their general attitudes are aligned on this matter.

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Oh god the windows vm i'm forced to install will take almost half of my hard drive space soon. It's funny how windows is roughly the same size as my full kde installation yet it has no useful programs installed by default.

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Quoting: damarrinValve isn't publicly traded as far as I can tell, so they don't have to chase profits and forecasts at any cost like a lot of the "evil" companies do. That's not to say they won't become evil at some point, people in power and business practices change.

A monopoly is _never_ good, so it's always worth it to have some competition to turn to. Their dominance/monopoly in the Linux space is unfortunately insignificant, though I find it very hard these days to give money to GOG what with their Linux support being the afterthought that it is.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped Linux support entirely now they're "restructuring".

It's unlikely, as even with the slow hype DRM free is getting, it's still disproportionately better selling point among us nutters than your average "gamer".

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Quoting: MohandevirI know that there are flatpaks and other "sandbox" concept, but why is the core installation sharing "ressources/files/libs/whatever" with optionnal components (post install softwares)... How come installing Steam may mess with basic components from the DE? I mean, couldn't they be 2 separate things, isolated from one another (ex: different copies of the same files)? I'm just wondering and I'm no software engineer. I'm totally aware that it's probably much easier to say than do.

Complex programs share and reuse a lot of code. Most of that is not written by the same developer, so they have to rely on promises made by the original developers. If the original developers choose to modify their promise, the others using their code will have to adjust their code accordingly, or if possible, choose to use the old version. Proprietary software often follows old versions.

Now the distributions basically take all this code and try to mix it into something useable. This means they will have to pick versions of the shared code (libraries) and the applications that run and match their versions so they work. For proprietary software even this basic thing is impossible, since sharing it is illegal and allegedly makes you a see bandit.

Games and graphical programs are good examples for programs that reuse a lot of code relating to your DE, at the minimum the window manager and the graphical server. (xorg/wayland)

The package manager is set up in a way that it tries to mix and match the versions and the programs so that your system works. If this fails you can encounter such a bug. I don't know if they followed debian yet, but it used to be before the multiarch system the 32 bit libraries were called library-i386. For some reason this used to result in such a headache as in the video. It's also possible the person who made the steam package made an error.
You can already do such sandboxing, you can run every application in it's own vm for example, on cubes.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkSomething that might help all distributions of Linux might be a central site where users can post their Linux tutorials, organized by Distribution, Distro Version, Topic, and Date. This way, when a user comes to the site looking for a tutorial, they should always get the most recent and relevant information up front. The site could also put up a warning at the top of the site if the tutorial being viewed is for an older distribution version, or if it hasn't been updated in some specified amount of time (like "Warning, tutorial is over 6 months old and may be out of date"). The site could also implement a rating system for how successful users have been using the tutorial.

I'm just spitballing. Honestly, though, there definitely is an issue with so many disparate tutorials out there from as far back as a decade or more, and, unless you pay close attention to distro version or date information that may, or may not be in the tutorial (depending on the whims of the author) you can easily have a newbie find an Ubuntu tutorial from 5 or 10 years ago, not realize its age, and be completely lost.

I don't think this is a problem. How i see it there are 2 main problems.
When you are catering to windows users, you are catering to people who do dumb shit operating windows (well thats because windows is essentially crap) and they are stuck in their ways. You can patch the package manager all you want this will still remain a problem.

The other one is that new users should be made more aware of that they shouldn't learn "Ubuntu" or "Arch", but rather the little programs and subsystems that are 99% identical between systems and one package manager. Even if they don't memorize the manual (nobody does) they will get a much clearer picture of how their system works much faster.

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Seems like I'm getting old.

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Quoting: STiATGood. Some Patents are just bunkers.

Don't get me wrong, some patents do serve a purpose and are very expensive in R&D and have every right to be there and to get a share for others implementing it (things like 5G technology).

But I really have an issue with all those trivial patents which should not exist in the first place.

A button is just a button, leave it at that. A corner of a device just that, how ever round.

I'd argue that patents generally hinder evolution, but in some cases I see the need of the one doing expensive R&D to be compensated for their effort.

The patent system is partly responsible for whole continents lagging behind on vaccination rates - this is one example where this broken, evil system even threatens life. And it's as usual, only protects the moneyd class as the people that come up with the fundamental technology or how to put it together only see the crumbs of the billions that the "investors" reap from it

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