Gamers deserve a good part of that blame also. Splitgate was doing amazing before Infinite drop. Then when it came killed both games. Gamers didn’t go back and support Splitgate. Or when we have things like Operation Harsh Doorstop and people just ignore it hoping again a triple A studio game will save them. I really hope Battlebits lasts.
I never thought South Park would be so directly on the pulse
Where has this author been?! South Park is notoriously written and aired in the same week. The show has literally had its pulse on pop culture since at least 2006 when they really had it down on writing, recording, animating, and airing in a week.
My thoughts exactly. Whatever small sacrifices I may have to make by switching to Linux are vastly outweighed by having an OS that doesn’t harvest my data and which has a community that actually cares and provides real support.
Could you say more about this? I am curious how new you are to linux, what you might be missing in linux, bumps in the road, etc.
My personal PC use is mostly surfing and gaming. Maybe some light office work but I use open office for that. How painful would the switch from W to linux be for me? This is starting to look more and more likely for me as Windoze goes downhill.
I know there are plenty of rabid linux fanbois here and to be clear I am just looking for an average Joe's experience switching...uber geeks with 20 years of Linux need not apply...thx!
uber geeks with 20 years of Linux need not apply…thx!
Well, I would have suggested trying out Linux Mint as a live system to see if it runs on your hardware and fits your needs before installation. Test out wifi, bluetooth, video streaming and printing especially.
Also checking out whether your games are supported on www.protondb.com
But I guess my advice isn’t welcome since I’ve used Linux for too long.
I’m that average Joe! In fact, I’m using Linux Mint, which is extremely easy to use and navigate. In fact, I’ve found it much easier to learn than Windows.
So far, I haven’t missed anything. I mostly stream content and use the internet. I haven’t tried much gaming, but it seems to be well supported.
My only barrier I’m aware of for gaming are multiplayer games that require anti-cheat software, but I don’t play such games anyway.
There are a few other little things. For example, since I use my mini PC for content streaming, I had to connect it directly to the TV via USB and use a wireless keyboard to navigate since that’s my primary way to watch movies. (Screen mirroring isn’t supported.) Another example is Proton VPN works on Linux but behaves weirdly. If I forget to disconnect, then next time I launch Linux I have to manually reconnect to wifi, which is weird, but the forums helped me immediately.
My last experience with Linux was positive, but I eventually went back into Windows.
So many games are left unsupported by proton that is not a non-issue like some people like to claim. I tried for a year to stay on Linux, but all my friends would be playing games I couldn’t even lauunch.
I tried just passing on the games I couldn’t play at first, to avoid booting into Windows. But that didn’t last long and soon I found myself being in Windows 90% of the time.
I wish it wasn’t the case because I had an install of endeavor os with gnome and I loved the DE so much it was hard to stay on windows.
But eventually I just stopped booting into Linux and haven’t come back.
Maybe in a couple more years when missing out on steam deck revenue is a big deal, I’ll be back.
Used Linux Mint/Ubuntu after 20+ years of windows and it’s very easy. Most programs have similar equivalents that can run on both windows and Linux (Word/Powerpoint/etc. -> Open Office or Libreoffice, Email client -> thunderbird, etc.), linux distrobutions have their own ‘app store’ so its easy as searching and clicking install.
Gaming is somewhat new to Linux but you can install Steam; for gaming specifically there are some os’ that others know more about than me but Steam OS can be installed unofficially as Holoiso with amd pcs.
Overall you might want to try double booting (windows + linux on the same harddrive) first because of gaming. Linux does detect other os’ and allow the dual booting installation process to be easier.
Three things to make sure of:
getting to the linx installation disk from boot is a pain on pre-made windows machines, search for things to change in bios with a youtube video or wiki so it goes to the usb first
on the live usb/disk (your installation disk) enable wifi, open a web browser to test the internet is working plus sound and other insert thumb drives/cd disks (it should work on common distros). Some distributions don’t play nice or load on some pcs.
create a backup windows disk and save important files before entering linux in case the installation goes wrong
You’re in luck. I have roughly 30 years experience. And first let me chime in with the other recommendations. Linux Mint is absolutely a good starting point. And making a “live” USB is a fantastic way to get an introduction and heads up on possible hardware issues. They’re rare but they do exist for any OS. However installing software etc to a live distro is not usually an easy thing. If you want to explore the software side beyond what’s on a live image. Try an install to virtualbox. You will get basic practice with actually installing a basic distro. And be able to fully explore the app repositories.
The biggest show stopper for switching to Linux these days is either that you have x rare oddball hardware, or you very specifically need y piece of software that refuses to run under wine, or obscure feature z of software package y.
One final recommendation. If you don’t back up regularly or like you should to external media. You will always run the risk of damaging your windows install should you want to keep it around. It’s a right of passage for many of us that did it back in the '90s. But not everyone wants that kind of stress just starting out. If you have a little bit of cash to spare. Go on eBay and pick up an old used HP Lenovo or Dell business system. You can get a fourth generation I7 with a decent amount of RAM and perhaps a hard disk and a windows license for almost $150. If you want to practice dual booting, it will make a perfect system. And with a $30 or so HDMI KVM. It can even use the same monitor. Keyboard and mouse as your main system. So you can use them side by side and see which one really stacks up. And in the end when you’ve made your decision. The old business system will be ready to make a great network file server. If nothing else. It’s sort of a win-win-win win investment.
To brush off the overwhelmingly negative reviews as “review bombing” is to imply that someone with an ulterior motive either faked the reviews or orchestrated a virtual army to write insincere ones, yet there is no reason to believe that happened here.
Perhaps the people in charge at Activision-Blizzard should stop pretending to be victims, and accept that those reviews are the genuine and predictable response to the choices they forced on their customers. Take responsibility, learn a lesson, either fix it or do better next time, and hope there’s some good will left among what fans they haven’t yet driven away.
Review bombers have completely fucked over the purpose of reviews, seriously. Thanks to those dumb fuckers anytime anything deservedly get bad reviews, the creators almost always completely fucking ignore the backlash, dismissing it as nothing more than review bombing. It’s nothing more than an excuse, of course, but it’s still an excuse they didn’t have at all before.
If you operate any sort of international business (LTT store products are made in China) the US dollar is the currency you use. Their costs are all in USD so if they used CAD for pricing they would just be constantly jumping around with the exchange rate to make sure margins stayed constant.
The logic still applies. If you price something in CAD for a US or international audience, you might as well price it in beans because nobody’s going to have any idea how much it costs. Think of LTT as an Canadian exporter of video content.
Thinking of it that way makes sense, but it doesn’t change the fact that they were (idk if they still are, stopped watching years ago) advertising themselves as Canadian content creators, with a fair bit of emphasis on being Canadian. As far as I could tell they were trying to appeal to Canadians by pushing that angle, however their videos used US pricing and availability which may as well have been in beans because it means nothing to me.
Why? It’s a business and they go where the money is. I don’t mind LTT thinking like a business - everybody’s gotta eat. But the screw-ups with Billet aren’t okay and the incredibly hostile workplace described on Xitter is beyond the pale.
Didn't he even make a video where he talked about he wants to stop pushing expensive shit to people, but then he didn't because he's just a money hungry twat? I never got the appeal and found him beyond annoying. So this is just great bews, maybe his videos will stop showing up everywhere.
You can try to make a profit without if being your main focus I guess. There are the channels which review and take all the free samples they get and try to pump out a review on time no matter the quality to generate as many views as possible.
And then there are a few review channels who will put out their review when it is ready and good. Who will give away review copies if allowed. Those reviewers would call out shit even if it means being locked out of review copies next time. Which of course means less profit. There are even review channels which do not do sponsored ad segments. Instead they’d be relying on viewer support. But there aren’t many of those.
Every large channel, and most small channels that aren’t explicitly charities, are profit-driven. I’d actually say being visibly profit-driven is usually a good sign because it means you know where their money comes from. What’s worse is when you don’t know who’s funding them – that’s when you get paid misinformation peddlers.
Media is a business. If you’re not their paying customer, you’re the product. That’s why stuff like Patreon and LTT’s paid merch is a good thing.
The real problems are that the company runs in an extremely, dangerously unprofessional way - well beyond normal startup mayhem. Combine that with the break-neck pace they try to put out content, and the fact that Linus himself has an ego the size of Cleveland, and it means that they’re a danger to themselves and others. And Linus taking every problem personally means the company can’t change properly. He needs to take a leave of absence and bring in some dispassionate experts fix things at his company, and when he comes back he’s just another employee who does things by the book and lets the CEO run things under the new model until he learns the ropes.
But I worry that the company is screwed regardless - they might not be able to come back from this, and even if they can the loss of revenue might exceed their operating costs and runway. For Linus himself and the rest of the leadership? Good. That’s appropriate comeuppance. But it’s a big group, and that will probably mean layoffs, and I feel bad for the people at the bottom who’ll be hit by the shit rolling downhill.
I did too, but I got back in when they gave you a pretty easy achievement-based unlock the next season after the hero drops. I don’t love it but it means you’ll get the heroes at most 1 season late if you’re not active enough to complete the free-tier battle-pass.
So it’s not nice but at least there’s no FOMO. It’s more like unlocking weapons in TF2 in terms of difficulty than true “pay to win”.
To me the big pisser is that the OW1 gameplay of 2-2-2 is no longer available. 5 players is not large enough team for a game with a respawn timer and slow rollouts - losing one player (especially the tank) means the teamfight is over. That much pressure is just bad gameplay for a game that was originally supposed to be an approachable take on TF2.
If they wanted smaller teams, they needed to rework how costly deaths are in teamfights. And OP tanks was just a dumb idea altogether.
End of an era. E3 was better as it was more centralized, IMO. Better to get all the news in one place instead of having to go searching for like, 13 different dates for streams. Plus, everyone was in competition with each other, so their presentations had to be good. Now we get Nintendo Directs with like, 90% indie games.
If only leaking your IP was the huge exploit lmao. It literally allowed for arbitrary code execution which is infinitely worse. Honestly bad title by the author of that article, it’s far more serious than they let on.
Pretty unfortunate bug but at least they patched it pretty quickly it seems.
So there I was a low paid unskilled worker in a mine, till one day I touch a magic space rock then before you know it a complete stranger just gives me his ship and his robot and tells me I’m the chosen one. This broke my immersion and my fun.
Like most gamers I am a total success in life. A fulfilling carrier, relationships, money and the respect of my peers. So when I play a video game I really want an escape from this quant nightmare that is my perfect life and just play as a low life shlub who gets paid minimum wage to risk his life in order to increase the profits of those above him. Is that too much to ask Bethesda?
SteamOS is almost entirely open source software, except for the handheld’s specific proprietary drivers and Steam itself. Vendors are free to use it via its open source license if they choose.
The hardest parts (i.e. proton) are fully available to anyone who’d like to use it under an approximation of the MIT license, even for commercial use.
the steam deck drivers are being upstream to mesa and the linux kernel, no?, meybe they are using a pre-build before the code get merged, but every steam deck fix is being merged(mesa, radv, even the kernel got a lot of fixes for it)
You can install wine or steam and run games on pretty much any distro. SteamOS is just tailored for the Steam Deck and is open source and under GPLv2, so anyone can fork it or contribute (github.com/ValveSoftware/steamos_kernel).
I think the confusion is Proton, people think it’s a some Valve secret that saves Linux but anyone can make their own implementation of Wine (Even Apple made a big announcement for their implementation of Wine)
But tbh I, and probably many others, don't care that much about the Linux. I would've been fine if it was Windows with the same price and performance. What I care about, that I can play mobile.
If I just wnated Linux I would install Linus on my PC, no real need to buy an extra device just for that.
Well that’s the thing, I’m very aware that most people don’t know or don’t care. But Microsoft has been using this to their advantage for years. It would be better for the consumer to have somewhat of a choice even if they’re not too aware of it.
My understanding is that because it's Linux they can customize it and trim all the fat to make the OS run as efficiently as possible, making it perfect for a portable device where you want as much processing power going to the game. You just can't get that with Windows.
That's true. I think pretty well showcased by the ROG Ally. Better hardware than the steamdeck, no doubt, but due to software it ends up not being that much more powerful effectively.
Linux already runs way faster than Windows, they don’t need to trim things down and as you can see by desktop mode it’s your standard OS
if you do a fresh install of a full desktop Linux then you can be looking at 5-10gb of storage and using 300-400 mb ram. Windows uses 30gb of storage and 4gb of ram. It’s just not as good for a gaming or battery operated device
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