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1. askonomm · 1790329035 · focus · HN ↗

   Any move away from the abusive big tech that exists in USA is a good move in my book. Microsoft just recently made a new patent where they will monitor you via camera and microphone to block your program/game to show you ads, and per ads viewed, you then earn credit to be able to use your program/game. It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.

   1. wartywhoa23 · 1790338341 · focus · HN ↗

      > It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.

      There is a couple more wild things here:

      1) That there is an agenda, demand and total legal abetment from the top of the power/monetary hierarchy for such corporate policies

      2) That there is a horde of individual employees working to those ends without any shadow of doubt, often even vice signaling their intent to be the first to attain the figurative A-bomb or full-blown BB telescreen.

      1. atoav · 1790339540 · focus · HN ↗

         A lot of that has to do with the fact that the people who decide to use it fall into two camps:

         1. People who do not have to use it themselves (political decides, bosses, ..), but get lobbied to the max

         2. People who have to administer it and know nothing else and endure the lasting pain over the perceived infinite hurdle of changing the system

         I gladly can use Linux at work, so I have had a stable, reliable and unchanging system since the past 6 years, but others have to go through major pains for each version of enshittification of their OS update. In my case the OS just got better slowly and incrementally.

         1. flaunf221 · 1790342503 · focus · HN ↗

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            1. mcv · 1790343958 · focus · HN ↗

               Gave up? There are more Linux games than ever. Most commercial games work fine on Linux now. Some through emulation of some sort, others completely natively, because most gamer engines support Linux natively, making it trivial to do so. And as a gamer, I can't really tell the difference between the two.

               If you mean Linux-only classic open source games, like Angband or Battle for Wesnoth or something, they still exist, but the demand has clearly gone down because now almost all games work on Linux. Except the ones with anti-cheat systems that rootkit-style access to your system.

               1. beloch · 1790359153 · focus · HN ↗

                  Steam has been pushing Linux as a gaming OS, and it's working. Mainstream game support has come leaps and bounds over the last several years. It's still not quite as good as Windows. You will run into more bugs and have to fiddle with things a bit more to get them to work. It's improving rapidly though.

                  My only concern is that this is mostly just the result of one very influential company. If they turn evil on us...

               2. MentalM · 1790359728 · focus · HN ↗

                  > Most commercial games work fine on Linux now.

                  What about the performance (especially the bottom 1% frame time)? What about availability of those games in free online game libraries?

                  1. mcv · 1790360388 · focus · HN ↗

                     In my personal experience, performance is better than I've ever seen on Windows. But less subjective benchmarks exist. Apparently, if you have an AMD GPU, performance is likely to be better on Linux, if you have Nvidia, it's probably better on Windows. I have Nvidia and no complaints.
               3. ThrowawayB7 · 1790363028 · focus · HN ↗

                  The parent poster said "Linux gaming community". "Most commercial games work fine on Linux now" because a multi-billion dollar corporation, Valve, is paying to maintain Proton to protect their business model, not the Linux community.

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