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  • Legally speaking you lose the license to all the games because you don’t own the games only a license to use those games.

    And the game owners have only licensed the games to the gaming platform (steam, etc) with the license to re-license those to you. Ceasing to exist the middleman, also your end of the license is invalidated.

    You would need to negotiate a license to use each game again with somebody else or you are effectively pirating the game.

    This doesn’t matter if there are DRM or no DRM. This not a technical aspect. Pirating means using without being legally allowed to, circumventing DRM or not is just the difference between breaking into your home or finding a non locked door to enter without damaging the house. Its still stealing.

    Don’t get mad, I do not condone DRM and I don’t think piracy is stealing, it was just an example from a legal point of view

    IANAL, but had to study the field for work related stuff.







  • I don’t see anything wrong here. Ram is supposed to be always as full as possible.

    What is not needed by running programs should be full of disk pages cached. A system with lots of free ram is oversized or abnormal.

    Also, today’s kernels require swap space. On disk is a must for a server, and maybe consider even zram.

    Having swap will allow the kernel to organize it’s memory usage even better.

    Don’t over think ram as that is a field in which you will be wrong and the kernel will be right 99%.





  • I think you are addressing the issues wrong.

    Unsupported hardware is a reality in Linux, even if I didn’t find any in the last 10+ years, my needs are much more limited.

    Controllers do work just fine, as well as Bluetooth, in my experience. Maybe share some issues and let’s see why.

    Troubleshooting in Linux means understand why stuff don’t work as you expect, not copypasta 50 different solutions. There are 50 solutions because there are 100 ways to do stuff and different distros and versions out there. The “unified” experience is from the windows world, not the Linux world.

    Nvidia is a known issue on Linux, prrprietary drivers kind of sucks and there are no good open ones, at least for newish nvidia cards. But again, my experience with nvidia has always been very good, with proprietary drivers.

    Steam, I used it trough wine to run windows games on Linux, with good success (1 game, so YMMV), and I found it amazing that it was even possible to do. But never used controllers