AnonTwo

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.

?? 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.

…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.

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.

The…arm-based systems that use a different kind of BIOS?

If even Apple isn’t doing it on x86, I don’t see why Valve would start.

…?

No they couldn’t, it’s fucking Linux. They’d have to tie the controller drivers hostage to “lock it down”, and at that point they’d hit so many hiccups with legitimate users.

Like they’d have to pull so many things from Linux (in particular Proton) to “DRM-ify” the steamdeck.

And as I think someone else just posted, some of the stuff they’d need to lock-down aren’t even things Valve has control over. Like I said Proton but Valve doesn’t own proton.

Not really, it’s more internet in general. And if we look at social media, they have accounts as frustrating as crunchyroll to fully delete but without anything to pirate.

Like it’s a fair complaint but, to be fair

If you’re trying to delete your account you’re already going to a different provider (in this case, piracy), so it’s not like you would’ve happily come back to Crunchyroll just because they let you delete your account easier.

Some piracy sites do have accounts, just mostly small-scale.

Most of this complaint really doesn’t have to do with piracy…I mean a lot of account sites don’t even have anything to pirate.

Could be luck, but of those I only found Viewtube and Freetube to be responsive at this time of day to a live stream (the others either loaded endlessly or said they couldn’t load the page)

That was only of the web/desktop ones.

Freetube seems to support youtube chat as well, which the others don’t.

I’d say Executables (for all their risks) make it pretty easy for less savy users to get apps not immediately made available to them, given there are definite security issues.

But I will be fair that I think Linux’s flatpaks are helping a bit with making apps more available without worrying about the distro. Plus proton/wine lets users grab some of the useful exe’s from windows.

It’s improving I do agree, but it’s something that will hopefully keep improving.

You’d have to check one of the side-distros. SteamOS itself has no official installer yet, only available pre-installed on steamdeck.

There are distros that are organized to recreate it for normal installation though.

Though to be fair, that’s pretty “normie” to not have to experience the installation process at all. Most people will just use what shipped with their PC.

I mean, if you’re biggest argument is, “they might Google the wrong distro”

if you don’t think that’s an issue, you probably are in the tech-savy category

I meet people on a daily basis who can’t even say what browser they’re on.

like drivers are a mess compared to Linux

Maybe but if you google (which most users use for their daily driver, even on IOS/Android) you get pointed to the manufacturers who have the driver installers as simple as possible. These also come with auto updaters.

I mean you could not use the tools the manufacturers are providing, but at that point I’d argue you’re trying to be a tech savy user when they offered a way not to.

And very, very, very few edge cases are more difficult than that. most are plug-n-play (which to be fair, Linux has as well)

If you try to google a result for Linux you get a bunch of results for distributions that might not be yours. if you try to google a result for your distro you might get a result from years ago that is strongly not recommended anymore (especially if it leads to that Ubuntutalks website). And then the absolute worst case scenario, where you google and don’t actually find what you’re looking for, because the manufacturer does nothing with Linux and nobody cares about the problem.

A lot of windows was made around things that non-savy users were breaking. Nowadays a lot of the major issues I see people talk about are because they tried to do something that was very clearly something that they didn’t want to be done.

Pretty sure those users you’re talking about don’t understand desktop controls in general, and would be even worse on Linux. Because when we talk about tech savy we’re not talking about basic controls.

Linux is a usable daily driver if you’re tech savvy enough.

A daily driver shouldn’t need you to be tech savy. There should just be an added benefit for being tech savy.

Is there no government oversight for “Uhh no you aren’t?”

Given the recent animal testing results this seems like assisted suicide