Epic cons:

• Filled to the brim with DRM, at the point where you can't even launch many singleplayer games offline
• Actively against linux, for some fucking reason
• Bad launcher (but this one is no biggie, you can and should use Heroic launcher instead of the official one)
• Bad store in general compared to steam
• Ties with Tencent (super anti-consumer chinese state-owned megacorp)

Epic pros:

• Free games
• With coupons prices can get VERY low
• When it opened I heard the percent they take from game devs was lower than the other stores (not sure if it's still the case and tbh if it ever was)

Steam pros:

• Pushing linux gaming like their life depends on it
• Generally correct towards the consumer
• Huge store and many information, from the game store pages to the workshop
• During sales prices are good

Steam cons:

• Drm
• Bad official app Ux and messy ui

Gog

I don't know anything besides the fact that it has drm-free games and that it's owned by CDPR (the guys who developed the witcher series and cyberpunk)

I personally purchase my games on steam, since I think their contribution to linux gaming is crucial for linux to go mainstream

Choose what you will knowing this. If someone else wants to add something to this list you're welcome to do so.

Bit of a hot take, but I'm really hoping for china to go windows-free. Even if it's OrwellOS and sends ungoldy amounts of data to the government (pretty sure they already do that on windows too), just make it linux-based.

Compnaies would finally start taking linux in serious consideration to not being left out of the chinese market, we would start seeing laptops sold with linux and all the good stuff.

Last but not least, yes, we are in development on the next chapter – The Elder Scrolls VI. Even now, returning to Tamriel and playing early builds has us filled with the same joy, excitement, and promises of adventure.

So still no updates on TES6 then. Saved you a click I guess

What the fuck

Only worth if you want to support telegram financially imo

Absolute power move.

Surely a good exercise for the person who does it and a good way for those who work(or want to work) in the field to see how other designers tackle these kind of projects, even if for fun.

Wouldn't really call it meaningless

I love what valve is handling the whole steam deck project

Can't really help with your request, just wanted to let you know you're amazing OP

Please use spoiler tags

Shots fired

People either don't know or don't give a shit

All the major lemmy instances are heavily lgbtq friendly, and a big part of lemmy's userbase is pro lgbtq

I fucking hate US

I've been using it for a couple years with two accounts. It's great imo, highly recommended

Source?

Absolute champ

Brb, gonna play hades and then watch them all in order to understand everything that's going on

Something tells me bro doesn't really mean the f-word

Fossify phone is a forked version of Simple dialer in active development and without all the shitty ads and telemetry SMT apps now have

The same people also forked other SMT apps, check them out if you didn't know them

Ah, sweet human-made horrors beyond my imagination

It's not platinum tho

We pray.

Always has been

Select a community > three dots in the top right corner > Community info

If that's what you're looking for

🍿🥤

Dimmer, Newpipe, Vimusic, Xtra, Aurora Store, Yet another call blocker

He totally did it just because he wanted to and he thought there wouldn't have been any repercussions. Now shit's hitting the fan, as it should

It's definitely quieter than it was back in june but Lemmy/Kbin are very much alive at this point.

I've been able to not come back to reddit since then, and I'm not really missing it tbh

Eternity for lemmy is peak user experience imo

Linux can be used to play commercial games > more people daily drive to linux > more companies port their software to linux > even more people switch to linux > Windows/macOS duopoly breaks, losing to open source alternatives

I'm not saying playing call of duty on the deck will make windows fall, but it's a start

The steam deck is fire

*Ublock Origin, an extension for firefox and Ublock origin Lite, an extension for chrome and derivatives

Not trying to be pedantic, people who never heard of it could straight up download the wrong software

Is it just me or very few games support FSR3? Which is a shame, it looks amazing on paper

Recommending ubuntu to newbies is the product of either incompetence or malice when Mint, zorin and nobara exist

It's from the same dev. You could see it as the natural evolution of newpipe. So far the only difference it's the possibility to submit sponsorblock segments with tubular.

There's literally a black mirror episode (season 1) where this concept is explored. Circumstances are a bit different though

Absolutely agree. It's counterintuitive, but waking up earlier than you need to and start your day slowly actually makes you feel more rested and calm (provided you've still slept sufficiently)

Fuck fast foods (and fast fashion and everything related)

Currently entering the herculean effort phase, wish me luck