it’s more nuanced than that. Claude is made from stolen code, but it generally isn’t going to copy its training data verbatim (unless specifically told to). so copyright wise it’s more grey than strictly wrong. and though claude is made from stolen code, lutris developers are writing something they give off freely to the world, they are not profiting from the stolen code.

does this make it ok? i don’t know. what if they use an open weights model rather than a closed one? would that be more acceptable?

i hope they join valve and fund proton.

The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world

No, all client side anti cheats are bad and won’t work. The user space ones are still privacy risks and most importantly is absolutely useless against someone who is determined to cheat.

Enabling anticheat means the user must sacrifice many of their core freedoms just to play a video game. And in principle anticheat will never fully prevent cheating short of pointing a camera at the user and watch them the whole time they are playing.

I hope Linux community can push back. This whole thing is idiotic and harms the consumers.

Not quite true. Rechargeable AAs aren’t as durable and Li-ion battery packs. So you would still end up replacing them more often than you would replace the internal battery.

I mean, Linux player base is only .01%, even if they are all cheaters, they will literally have no impact… You can’t say “Linux user base is too small”, and “if you support Linux you want cheaters” at the same time if you want to make sense.

I am not waiting for it because I personally want to use it. I’m excited for the industry shaping power a Linux OS released by Valve will have.

Maybe wine/proton is just better at Windowsing than Windows is.