As a tech enthusiast, I always fell in the early adopter trap(s). Age may have given me some wisdom, however. I'll keep my 1080Ti, tyvm.

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Lightning-using spiders. Mistlands are covered in cobweb, and the last boss (Yagluth) gives you resistance to lightning, so it makes sense to have the next foes using that element.

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Quoting: PublicNuisancemy course of action is still a Power9 system long term.

In April the P10s scale out will be in GA.

They're insane - fastest CPU money can buy.

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Agree with everything here, but just want to chime in wrt Launchers.

They are often necessary evils, especially when you consider that most of the games with Launchers have their own user ID/TOS/auths/profiles and their settings.

Think of the Launchers as that library that binds together your SteamID and the Developer/Publisher user ID.

Could we get rid of it and move the auth logic within the game proper and un-decouple (or re-merge) the two userbase linking? Of course. Would I hold my breath waiting for the SH to change this convenient (for them!) behavior? Hardly so.

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I don't know about you all, but the idea of a piece of (fine?) consumer hardware that comes with full support for Linux and "you're on your own, fix it yourself" on Windows gives such a sweeeeeeeet taste of revenge.

First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then they must wait for audio drivers to be released to run Windows on the Deck.

What an incredible 31 years journey has been!

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Sad? A bit - I enjoyed their ports, and I'm grateful they made them. Like Aspyr.

Surprised? Not in the least. If we think Proton *can* be an industry changer, some change in the side industries is inevitable.

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I still have Muon around for package management on my KDE system. Discover is nice, don't get me wrong, but it's not as flexible as good old Muon.

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Quoting: GuestOuch, just 2 native games out of 20 :/

I see it as 10%, which is ten times as much as the official quota of Linux users reported by Steam (1%).

Which sounds good.

OTOH, we could say that 15% of titles cannot work on Linux whatsoever.

Which doesn't sound good.

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Well, most Blizzard products were known to run well under WINE since dirt was invented - to the point of speculating if somebody internally was smoothing them at the edges on purpose to keep some sort of unsupported-but-working compatibility...

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...And it's 70% discounted in the newly started Steam Sales! :grin:

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