It’s probably because I generally saw the sub shutdowns as a result of the protest, and not as an ongoing protest. Reddit clearly wasn’t in any talks with the mods at that point and vica versa.
Honestly i’ll just go with it being months. I’m basically just arguing semantics at this point.
I mean, I remember it being weeks myself.
But it’s not as if things went back to the way they were either. There were definitely effects due to those weeks.
On the bright side, it looks (based on what I can tell) that things calmed down and the guy he was talking to took it fairly well.
Meanwhile someone will be eating gummies to cure themselves of some modern disease instead of using actual science-proven medication.
So basically they’re protecting you from something that’s only possible, because of something they shouldn’t have done.
?? 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.
It kindof starts to snag in the GCN/PS2 era. Smash Bros Melee never gets to an adequate point for me, and Soul calibur 2 usually is fuzzy with slowdown on the windmill-esque level.
I don’t think I was able to get soul calibur 3 to work too well. The dreamcast version of PSO is much smoother than the GCN version, though GCN version is generally good enough.
Dreamcast/N64/Playstation era I’d say is the sweet spot where games aren’t going to have many issues that they wouldn’t have elsewhere.
Technically the mini retroarch is also on linux, but that’s not what people think of when they think “I want to run it like I do the steamdeck”
Like you said, not enough for steam games. technicalities don’t leave people feeling happy.
Technology isn’t there yet.
There’s certainly handhelds in the PSP go form factor already, but they use much smaller OSes than the steamdeck uses, and still have to make sacrifices usually.
Like you’d probably just get a quick-boot to a retroarch variant for emulation and thats the entirety of the OS you’d get.
…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.
Generally I add installers using “add non-steam app”, then once they install successfully, remove it and instead add the executable that was created.
Proton can do it correctly just it’s a PITA navigating the folders to make it work.
Lutris can work but some of it’s scipts are outdated or not made with steamdeck in mind
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.
I’m assuming it just does config for you like a lot of the other emulator related stuff on steamdeck does.
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.