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To be fair, only a handful of publishers were able to take their cards and go elsewhere. The media companies were a lot more on top of dragging their products off of Netflix.

Nobody would be on steam just for Valve games, after all, and indie has a much lower barrier of entry.

While they could certainly distribute their current products better, a lot of the issues they have now (see: belated frogs comment) aren’t things they really had control over.

I still use redirects to visit Reddit (I don’t bother if they don’t work), mainly because one of the main communities I track didn’t really move here.
Does Youtube count? That’s pretty much the only other thing I could think of.

I’m not

I can’t even try using an alternative redirect because apparently all of them are blocked.

The first time I gave up was basically just too much back and forth with Windows. Wine was still not there yet and Proton wasn’t even a thing yet though.

I’ve used it a lot on laptops still, but haven’t gone to a desktop mainly because friends still like to bounce between games that I have to worry if my system will even support (for anti-cheat reasons not for normal compatibility reasons)

Currently using on steam deck and it’s great, am planning for next PC because it feels like too much work to do on a current one when everything is already working the way I want it to.

Gnome’s current state is too far from the UI interface for people who only know windows. Maybe if it was Gnome2.

Normalized???

It’s still literally rated as less family friendly than watching blood and gore murder.

If anything I’d argue that sexual repression is still going as strong as ever in some places. In some cases to unhealthy amounts.

?? Historically it’s been an issue where you need to prove you didn’t do it, because otherwise the companies would bury you in legal fees trying to defend yourself. You’re like…trying to argue an alternate universe to how this normally plays out.

That’s…not a legal excuse.

In fact that’;s an open and shut end to a project if you’re caught doing it.

Hasn’t ReactOS been accused of using code that was not reverse-engineered multiple times? If they became too big MS would probably just sue them.

Keep in mind that you are an experienced user of linux.

This site is probably about people who are both inexperienced, and also may not have time to adequately learn the system the way you have.

And no, as someone who has gone through Fedora, Mint, and Arch, saying they’re for “everyone” just assumes everyone is going to use linux the same way you do. Which is a huge mistake. Arch didn’t even have a normal installer up until a year ago, the process even with the arch wiki guide is completely unwieldy for most users to do. Many distros disable popular codecs by default, which a lot of users wouldn’t have the patience for. Some will have Nvidia drivers for up to date for gaming, and some won’t.

And most of all, you’re also running new users into the choice dilemma, where there’s so many options they just won’t know what to pick.

Power supplies and motherboards for PCs

generally if either of them go the rest of your investment goes with it. Worst case scenario the power supply damages the motherboard meaning your cheap purchase made you lose more parts.

…What does the writer think support end means? Microsoft bricks the PC as soon as the support period ends?

They’re going to just keep using Windows 10, security be damned. Probably a good number of users who weren’t keeping their PC up to date even when Microsoft was forcing updates on them.

Twilight Zone?

To be fair nobody thought he would have fascist policies in 2016. Just that he was dumb and incompetent.

I feel like this isn’t really something Lemmy can answer, because we don’t know your group. I personally think you should just draw it into the open, get everyone to vent out, and try to keep it from getting any worse than it already is, but I couldn’t say I know how bad it actually is at the moment. Maybe talk with the one guy who has noticed the changes as well and see what he thinks.

Also means it’s not always bad. You can’t dictate what people should do and decidedly say it will always be gross off of a “sometimes” like you’ve been doing in this thread.

You’re honestly arguing a lot of “maybe” for what other people say while being very black/white yourself. Might want to check that.

Sounds like a you problem. Moreso that everything smells like poop to you if it’s not artificially created.

I want to try to be a bit nicer but wow you went from body odor to poop to argue natural smells. Isn’t the typically poetic phrase of smells to “smell like flowers” you know…a natural occurrence in nature?

You know not everyone smells as bad as you do without Deodorant, right?

Like you have a really strong opinion for something that genetically is different person to person both in what comes out and what is perceived.

That’s not moving goalposts, you’re just arguing semantics. People generally think of eliminate when they say prevent in this kind of conversation…

If anything if they went “prevention” and not “eliminate” like in your sense…it would be even dumber because it would just make the steamdeck a more restrictive x86-processor computer compared to the systems people were already comparing it to up until it’s release

Imagine how it would’ve gone down if people were saying “Of course you can do that, it’s a PC” if people responded with “Yeah, except it’s 10x harder to do things you could normally do on PC”. They wanted it to be close to how a PC is, it was part of the advertising campaign.

And if you’re going to flaunt your title you should probably actually…you know…say something that pertains to that knowledge you have.

This just seems like blind fanboyism. As great as the steamdeck is there’s no reason to act like it’s doing things it’s not actually doing. It was designed the way it was because it had to be, there doesn’t need to be anything whimsical about it.