Valve is the city. Indie devs can easily use itch.io or GOG instead.
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I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others’ words. Weird, isn’t it?
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Valve is the city. Indie devs can easily use itch.io or GOG instead.
Are you saying that creating drastic usability improvements don’t involve work or effort? You’d rather get a CPU 2 generations newer instead of a federated social media platform?
I just heard of Frog today, and I don’t really like it. It just seems like bypassing review. I like the competing proposal of experimental wayland protocols (merged into repository as “experimental” and iterative if 2 weeks pass without anyone opposing) much better.
Not necessarily. Even with “hide extensions” unchecked, Windows hides the .lnk extension by default; it just shows an arrow in the bottom-right corner of the icon, which is plausibly missed when in the list view. I’m surprised antivirus doesn’t know about it already tbh.
Well, not all indie games become that popular.
I agree, but could you elaborate on the indie dev part? Why would they have distribution on PlayStation/Xbox?
That would seem suspicious. I’m sure they have some way to pad out the size.
The point was “People more readily appreciate things that obviously directly affect them.” The only ways that directly affects users are improved execution times and footprints that users won’t notice. So no, we should not all praise MS and IBM like we praise Valve, especially when Valve also contributes to the Linux kernel.
We hate rent seeking. We’ll hate Steam if they raise the profit margin. We’re not talking about rent gouging. Piv’s point is that large publishers dominate the landscape and won’t bulge their prices. This is compounded by Steam’s anticompetitive clause against having a lower price on other platforms. That part is bad. However, the washing machine is well oiled and speedy. Epic’s is the clunky one, unfortunately. The only Steam alternative I’ll happily use is GOG and itch.io, where indies can still publish.
I’m interested, yet that is also obviously unsearchable.
That may have been earlier than Steam’s DRM. Nowadays you need to copy a steam emulator (a few DLLs) into the executables folder as well before sharing.
I’m pretty sure the main selling point was being cheaper.
Userspace affects users much more. I value getting Wayland color management support much more than the following kernel gobblygook lifted straight from https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges:
Summary: This release includes suppor for x86 FRED, which is a new way of transitioning between CPU ring privileves; it also includes support for creating pidfds for threads; support for BPF arenas, which is a sparse shared memory region between the BPF programs and user space; and BPF tokens, which allow delegating functionality to less privileged programs; host support for AMD Secure Nested Paging; support for weighted interleaveing memory policies; support for a FUSE passthrough mode that makes regular file I/O faster; and a new device mapper VDO deduplication target.
So now you’re pro landlord rent gouging?
No, they’re anti Starbucks price gouging. It’s like all those companies taking advantage of a little inflation to drastically increase retail prices.
It might be old and clunky and never repaired
It’s the opposite.
No.
Anyone is free to access purchases given the user chooses to give that info, they just don’t. Skill izzue
…wait, what does it say about EA?
ackshually the proprietary .lnk shortcut format can only be run on windows 🤓
I use Arch btw
IDK then. spinning up an entire game engine just to do what Electron does seems unbelievably wasteful though.
I don’t see how RIF could potentially confuse anyone at all. WP Engine, maybe, but I’m not convinced. I mean, the US trademark office did allow the latter to be trademarked.