Trying to get all they can out of the last great tech bubble before total collapse.

So Linux, “the free alternative to Windows”, needs corporate backing to sell it and make it mainstream?

It does help. Just look what has been achieved thanks to Valve.

And I think the worst thing, the thing holding Linux back the most, is the divisiveness of the Linux community

True, but the linux community is SO much friendlier and welcoming now than it was 20+ years ago. And its getting better all the time as that kind of behavior gets further and further ostracized, alienated, and shut down.

I still remember the amount of toxic hostility and hatred I received from Linux communities in the late 90s and early aughts when i gave my first couple tries to linux.

Average Joe lives in ignorance and doesnt know enough to care.

and theres also a good chance they don’t care enough to know… until shit hits the fan of course.

I felt the same way when I switched to Nobara.

it was the fastest, easiest, most hands off install of linux I ever had. and that same kind of stuff carries over into its every day usability. I do precious little thinking of “I have Linux” or “I have Nobara” anymore, I just think “Imma go do X” and immediately do X without issue.

Linux has become absolutely amazing, especially for gaming, in the past couple years… as I said in a previous post, yeah you’ve been able to game on linux for longer than that… but the past 2 years have just been fuckin butter.

Yep, choice is nice, but everyone and their uncle rolling out distros is excessive as all fuck. Especially when there is precious little that isnt ultimately, deep down, just another flavor of Debian, Arch or Fedora.

No one wants to use any OS.

People just want to use their computer easily, and do what they want with relatively little hindrance or concern. The overwhelming bulk of people, I’d wager, Don’t care about the OS as long as it stays the hell out of the way and isnt obnoxious.

Which is why Windows reigned for so long, because regardless of what criticism you throw at it… Microsoft was amazingly successful at creating a GUI and interface that you could set anyone in front of and they’d be able to figure out basic usage in half an hour with relatively little direction… and, especially in its heyday of windows 7, did an excellent job of just being mostly invisible to everyday use. It wasnt even a thought in your head. Just throw your disc in/download your software, and run. No thought, no worry. Just doing what you need and want to do, without having to think about it or worry about it.

Linux, depending on the distro, is finally getting close to that same place… Where you can just use it without having to think about it to much. Where you don’t have to dig into a terminal and look up command line actions and such. For basic mom&pop email and banking computers, you know…basic web based stuff, Linux has been there for I would say almost a decade at this point.

But for gaming and other stuff? I You’ve been able to do it for longer, but I’d say the past 2 years have just been an absolute golden age of being able to just do stuff without really having to worrying about your OS/proton/etc. The only remaining roadblock that requires you to stop and think at all is to see if the game uses a kernal based anticheat, and thats pretty much the only roadblock to playing a small minority of games on linux, Which doesnt feel like a small minority if those are the bulk of the games you play, in all fairness… But thats not even linux’s fault. Blame the devs for being shady fuckers for it, cause plenty of BIG games out there use regular old anticheat that doesnt have to have full root access to your computer and often does an even better job at stopping shit than the kernal anticheats.

for now

by the time i can afford it, and a new PSU, the ram issue will probably see GPUs skyrocket as well. Especially with companies cutting consumer production for AI production.

i really wish I could have eeked out one more GPU upgrade before the shit hit the fan…but GPUs are at the point now where you gotta upgrade the PSU to upgrade the GPU since power draw demands are getting absolutely donk.

I for one am in favor of throwing the rich into wood chippers.

The rich and their bought and paid for politicians.

Feet first.

Honestly thats my experience with most codes, in general.

Which is why those deal sites that give you codes are ultimately pointless, especially since they started making super specifically regional codes and other excessively extreme limitations that render it useless for everyone but one random guy that lives in a blue barn to the north east of a pig farm.

Oh, another MegaLag video about the honey situation.

Last time this happened, LTT had a psychotic meltdown and sic’d his base on GamersNexus for…reasons?

Comics were great too. Wish there was more of those too.

There was almost a TF2 show on adult swim, too… I dont remember all the details, I think it fell through cause Valve refused to listen to any input the CN execs had?

Hackers have already proven that your webcam can be activated and monitored without the indicator LED even turning on.

If hackers are capable of it, you know the CIA have been doing it for even longer.

man… I really wish valve would go back and make new Meet The videos… or just TF2 videos in general. The first ones, like Heavy, got so ripped off compared to later ones like the Pyros

the orange box wasnt released along side any steam hardware? that i can recall at least.

Nah, it’d bring prices crashing down as the market gets flooded with all the used hardware from the AI data centers being cleared out and auctioned off in bulk lots by bankruptcy courts and debt collectors, leading people to buy them by the truck loads and put on ebay for pennies on the original retail dollar.

Orange Box 2, Which is a computer and contains no sequels to anything that was in The Orange Box

Which isnt unprecedented… they did the same thing with Alyx and Index, didnt they?

Temple of Trials was 100% executive meddling.

Executives demanded a tutorial level, and thus the temple of trials was forcibly conjured into existence against everyone elses insistence and desire.

its the only black mark on a otherwise fantastic game…unfortunately its right at the start and sours to many people on the greater game.

Yep. Have no reason to trust it does what it says it does. Only way to prove that is for someone to dig into the browser while its running to debug/investigate/etc, things that are way above most peoples capability.

and even if it does what it says it does, no reason to believe that it wont default to on with the next update.