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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. c7b · 1790344176 · focus · HN ↗

               You're saying this as if emulation (which Wine isn't really, more of a Win32 API compatibility layer; WINE literally stands for 'WINE Is Not an Emulator') was a bad thing. In reality, a lot of games benchmark better on Linux than on Windows today.

               1. flaunf221 · 1790345108 · focus · HN ↗

                  Emulation is not a bad thing - it gives users options. My point is that Microsoft were the only ones who managed to make a stable gaming platform.

                  Also "a lot of games benchmark better" - some games. And then some games don't work at all. And some games work with minor or significant issues. Which is not a slight against Wine and Proton as it's not an easy task.

                  1. c7b · 1790359894 · focus · HN ↗

                     Can't speak to it myself, but I'm not sure how up to date your infos are. I read a lot of reviews and it seems that the vast majority of the Steam catalogue should run fine on Linux today. The most important exceptions are games that require kernel-level anti-cheat (so if you're into multiplayer games that could be a dealbreaker).

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