Nature is healing.

The suggestion here is that the type of game that can thrive on a subscription service is either a small one that benefits from better curation and visibility or a live-service one that can make up revenue on the backend by charging all the new players microtransactions (the new store shelves are inside the games themselves).

I've been saying this since Game Pass launched: it encourages scummy monetization. The kind of games that come to it are going to have more and more content locked away behind microtransactions to make up the money lost by not selling copies. It's going to gradually become full of "free" to play garbage, and people will accept it because they didn't pay for an individual game outright.

Pop OS too.

The Switch is 7 years old this month.

PinePower is another good option that's not very expensive. 65W with 2 C ports and 1 A port for $25.

This smells like desperation.

It's much faster.

I wish people would stop parroting this. For the vast, vast majority of games it isn't true.

This is making perfect the enemy of good. What's actually going to happen is people are going to use "password123" because they can remember it.

This article could be about any year from the past 10 years. Why do people still believe these "promises"?

Try putting a laptop running Windows to sleep for a week and see if it has any battery left.

People who have never launched the game aren't counted in these statistics.

None of these features are usable in SteamVR, or if they are, aren't supported by any games, like HDR.

Games that are Epic exclusive aren't cheaper either. This is a nonsense argument.

Because support is missing from SteamVR, existing games, or both.

Game Pass (especially when a game launches on it) encourages aggressive monetization, so that doesn't fill me with confidence.

Nobody who packages debs are updating their applications for jammy anymore. Anything I install is several versions old at this point. Just the other day I tried to compile an application that uses Autocxx, only to find that it requires C++14 headers, and the jammy repo only had up to 12 or 13. I know I can add PPAs or get things other ways, but it kind of defeats the point of a package manager if I'm constantly hunting for things outside of it.

EAC works in Proton, as long as the developer takes the time to configure it right.

Just because your experience has been perfect does not mean mine and other people's been.

That's why I linked to ProtonDB, where the vast majority of people have a perfect experience out of the box.

Plenty of open source applications are sold. Being open source doesn't mean you have to give the compiled application away for free.

Sounds like you're the only one.. I've played several hours of Lethal Company, and it's ran perfectly.

I'm looking forward to Cosmic, but I'm curious if it will delay the 24.04 LTS release. 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth at this point.

I said "generally." There are a few publishers that ship empty discs, and some games that are completely broken without a day-one patch, but most still have a playable game on the disc, at least on PlayStation. On Xbox, for games that have backwards compatibility with One, they often couldn't fit both game builds on one disc, so they made one version download-only instead of shipping two discs.

Show me a standard that was destroyed by EEE and I'll show you a standard that never took off in the first place.

XMPP says hi.

Buying up game developers to make them exclusives and selling hardware at a loss to stifle competitors is the only "benefit" their money has produced. This is a net negative for VR as a whole.

Like 90% of what a modern VR headset is made of has come from their money.

Like what? I can't think of a single invention they pioneered that's used in their own headsets, let alone everyone else's.

It's happened to several games in the past that couldn't prevent people from cheating.

And those games are...? There are plenty of games that have allowed anticheat to work on Linux and haven't imploded, but I don't know of a single one that has. Care to encourage enlighten me?

Most games have a day one patch, but the game on the disc is usually playable without it.

I still want Material back.

Pop is great for gaming, and part of the reason I picked it was so I'd have access to more software packages. No regrets.

Same here in every point, except my wife's work computer is Windows 10, not 11.

What? I didn't want you to list a bunch of things off the top of your head. I asked for one factual thing, and you instead you provided a bunch of assumptions. If you can't provide actual facts maybe just don't state guesses like they're true?

Declaring Game Pass profitable right after they reclassified every Xbox Live user as a Game Pass user smells like creative accounting to me.

Try Sidebery instead.

Teeth teeth teeth.

Teeth.

They won't.

"Could do"? I haven't used Windows in a decade at least, but doesn't it have ads in the start menu now?

The nice thing about open source is that you can just contribute the feature if it's important to you instead of needing to make an external utility to do it.

It's not even a question anymore. Even if every single subscriber is on the highest tier, they're not even close to making back their third-party costs to run the service, let alone server costs, cannibalized first-party game sales, and whatever else they pay to run it.

I stopped reading when you implied that Facebook invented pancake optics. They have been used in cameras for decades. And while I agree they're the way forward in the future, saying they let more light in is factually incorrect: they only let about 10-15% of the light through. This page has a good overview of why that is and how they work.