and every pirate can tell you the list of games that they ended up buying because they enjoyed the game.

Piracy does get converted into sales, when the game is good enough and deserving enough.

Especially when you ignore the logical fallacy that every pirate download is a lost sale, which absolute bollocks and in no way true or even realistic.

Which I think is a big reason you don’t see demos anymore, cause the majority of games are broken shovelware shit and letting people know that before they drop 70 dollars on it would be a surefire way to tank profits.

theres a reason /s has become a thing to indicate sarcasm.

and its because true stupidity has become so extreme that its impossible to tell from sarcasm in the tone free medium of text.

does microsoft generate that unique system ID for linux users when you log into your MS account to get into minecraft?

I think Stardew and Rimworld are the only games i’ve played where the native linux versions werent completely fucked up and broken in some way.

So I pretty much always recommend playing the windows version via proton.

Yeah, but I’d rather have a Windows Laptop than a Razer…Anything, really.

They are a shit company with shit quality hardware. At least windows can be reformated, but you cant fix Razer quality.

edit: i’m stupid, i dont know how i ended up on a year old post.

The biggest thing i’ve noticed with proton updates is I no longer have to hunt down specific proton versions, or use GE Proton anymore, or even use launch arguments

Every game I’ve played just runs flawlessly with proton experimental now.

AMD GPU support is excellent and built into the kernel, but i’d still hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU, but I’d hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU on windows too (and this is for amd, intel and nvidia)

nvidia is more of a headache, but a lot of distros have nvidia specific packs so you don’t have to deal with the nvidia driver headache yourself, but not entirely perfect.

Intel is still developing its drivers, some updates seeing some big gains…and seems to have solid linux support, second only to AMD, But theres also concern of intel going Ouroboros in the whole “We’re releasing a new product, but its not selling as much as we want due to our history of cancelling products early causing consumer hesitation, so we’re cancelling this product early because of consumer hesitation” and intel owners being left in a lurch of abandoned products.

Personally, I would get an AMD gpu. not out of some weird parasocial obsession with a multi-billion dollar company, but simply because its the most easy, best supported, most plug-n-play gpu to use on linux at the moment.

People really need to learn to read more than the first sentence

We’re already seeing games that need FSR even at 1080p because of shit optimization. We don’t need this normalized and set as a standard.

and that performance floor is heavily reliant on FSR.

Which is bad for everyone. We’re already seeing games that need FSR even at 1080p because of shit optimization. We don’t need this normalized and set as a standard.

I’m getting some white knighty wiffs from this outrage over someone daring to compete with valve.

Thats about what i’ve been saying… 200 dollars more, and you get a vastly superior product over the steam machine…Which seeing as the steam machine is a luxury good, and not a budget concious/performance per dollar build… I’m perfectly okay with suggestion spending an extra 200 dollars for something markedly superior.

Or, theres only so many ways you can make a punny name on Steam OS.

But of course that doesnt allow for righteous indignity.

Was gonna suggest that, too, but he wants laid back and chill.

I suppose if he disabled biters it could be more laid back

Give me your greatest joy in game form. I’ve heard Stardew Valley is good. I tried it, reminds me of a gameboy game. I could not get into the game. My character kept falling asleep like 14 times in a day.

The only reason for your character to pass out is if you don’t pay attention to your energy bar. Which can be easily renewed with food once you start getting money and production coming in.

Maybe if the Op actually did their job and provide a basic level of information, instead of just assuming everyone has all knowledge.

Fewer performance gains means longer upgrade cycles, longer support windows and less pressure on consumers to keep soending money on upgrades (although the eventual upgrade is now way more expensive).

You have more faith in billion dollar companies than I do, if you think its gonna lead to more support and less pressure to keep spending.

Why the fuck you going at me with both guns drawn when all I did was explain, factually and neutrally, about how VAC works and why you see bans happen in waves instead of in the moment?

VAC doesnt immediately ban when a cheat is detected, It delays the ban to make it harder for cheat makers to figure out what, when, how, and why it was detected.

I hope we get absolutely no solution for it.

We don’t need kernel level anti-cheat.

We never have. We never will. We didnt need it on windows, and we dont need it on Linux

The fact that there are wildly popular games out there, that don’t use it, that successfully control cheating to a level that you barely experience/see it, is proof of that… its not only proof of it, it should be the absolute entropic death of the goddamn topic.

The only reason to want a kernel level anticheat is so they can poke around in everything you do and send it all home.They get to police their game… They don’t get to police and monitor my whole fucking life and everything I do on my computer.

If I wanted big brother monitoring everything I do and sending it all back home, I’d be using Windows 11.

Any company that says they need this for their game is lying, and deserves bankruptcy and death.