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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. OrangeRange · 1790344766 · focus · HN ↗

               Bad take, what actually happened was the realization that games wouldn't be released on Linux unless there were enough users there to warant it. Just as with ARM Windows not getting a single usable software when first released. What happened was Wine/Proton and FEX, with a lot of monetary input from Valve.

               By allowing a lot of people who are willing to take a performance-hit to transition to Linux, they sow the grass-roots necessary for the game studios to release native games on Linux.

               1. flaunf221 · 1790346391 · focus · HN ↗

                  > What happened was Wine/Proton and FEX, with a lot of monetary input from Valve.

                  So it took decades to understand that things aren't working and then investment from multi-billion company to finally start getting anywhere.

                  Meanwhile on Windows you can play today, could play 10 years ago, could 20 years ago. That should answer how it's still in business. It just works.

                  1. meekins · 1790348369 · focus · HN ↗

                     Although if you want to play the same game you played 20 years ago today, running it on Wine is your best bet to get it running.

                     1. flaunf221 · 1790354846 · focus · HN ↗

                        I recently played several games of early to mid 2000 and had no problems. Maybe for really old Win95-era games I'd had to use Wine, but not for anything semi-modern like this.

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