Google commenting on the decline of open standards feels like a tobacco company commenting on cancer rates.

I know it’s not indicative of the industry as a whole, but the Steam hardware survey has Nvidia at 75%. So while they’re still selling strong, as others have indicated, I’m not confident they’re getting used for gaming.

I’m not buying this just because Konami can get stuffed. They canned Kojima then rereleased his greatest work.

Yeah, it was super fun. I tried reformatting, I bought a new drive and put new Windows on it and the same thing happened.

I could drill down into the work that went into DXVK before Proton came about, enabling the Steam Deck, but that’s a boring history lesson. I will concede that newer bleeding edge hardware is far more likely to be plug and play on Windows, but one of the leading reasons I transitioned was Windows removing support for the audio chipset on the motherboard for my Ryzen 1600. Every time I rebooted, I’d have to unpack a zip file and reinstall the audio drivers, it was maddening.

In my experience (so, totally anecdotal), my hardware is stable longer on Linux than Windows.

Yeah that’s the biggest reason I haven’t pulled the trigger on a VR set.

The pace of hardware for the last few years has been crazy rapid with almost zero thought given to non-windows OS’s. The people working on reverse engineering drivers for headsets get one operable just in time for it to be out of date.

I mean, yes, but I also do dev coding work, run AI models, produce audio and video content from my machine. But years ago I adopted a ‘No BS’ software approach and rid myself of software that was deliberately getting in my way so transitioning to a fully *Nix workflow wasn’t an issue for me.

If anyone working with aggressively anticonsumer software right now tried to switch, it’s a nightmare.

Nvidia is a real stepping stone on itself, keep with it and I’m sure you’ll learn your way around.

Think of it like moving to a new house. Even if you put your furniture in the same place, the floor plan is different, so for the first little bit you’re bound to stub your toe in the dark.

If all you do is game, outside of a few key games (Destiny 2, uhh,couple others) the experience on Linux is better for many folks.

I like the idea that they approached Sony about making a Horizon game but Sony said no and they were like "Oh, well, this game is coming out…

Lenovo also sells older models for dirt cheap on their website sometimes.

It’s an outstanding controller for games with mouse input, but it’s less than fantastic for traditional controller games, imo.

It’s also very divisive. I love it for couch Civilization, but I have an 8bitDo for expedition 33.

This makes me wonder what the benefit of bipeds are for this over something like iBot’s multi wheel design. I get it makes sense for rubble or debris, but for halls and stairs multi wheel seems better and more refined.

Edited for autocorrect.

I just don’t understand anticheat or copy protection on PvE games. I can understand it if you don’t want to play against a cheater, but this is a cooperative shooter.

“Pick the right blade.” Santoku. The answer is Santoku.

Oh because he totally respects the court. Turns out he found a hack where you can just ignore what the courts say with no repercussions.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Even that has to come into the country and sit in a warehouse. Shipping a single case over from a warehouse overseas would be astronomically expensive.

Dude no one is going to pay to bring over a case that was $129 last week, and put it on the shelf for $200, with a line item.

Just moving product costs money, and the margins for small producers are under 10% already.

I’ve been Linux only since 2016, after a decade of "trying " to move over. I do still have a partition for the increasingly rare event that I need something MS, which so far has been one class in my University that required a lockdown browser for a test.