Quoting: melkemind...
People believe a lot of the propaganda because it confirms a lot of what they already believed.
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"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."

-- Wizard's First Rule, page 560

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Quoting: elgatil...
And given steam prices I think it is actually cheaper to buy the games than to pay a monthly fee even if you have access to all games (which you don't). With almost all of videogames with 10+h of content, (a lot with 30h and a lot of replayability) you are not going to play a lot of them per month as you would with movies on Netflix.
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But this is why streaming is the future. It is more expensive than owning and it provides a lot of content. The moment that people are willing to accept a streaming solution publishers will no longer offer an option to own _because_ it's more expensive to stream. They want that extra money and they know that people are willing to make the trade if the streaming service works well enough (due to the success of streaming services like Netflix over ownership services like Vudu).

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Wow, for a split second there I saw LAS and was hoping that the Linux Action Show was returning :dizzy:

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Quoting: ElectroDD... Why aren't there any legal action and only twitter bashing ?

Probably because everyone knows that legal battles are long, darwn-out, expensive affairs with a low probability of success. Most people just quit, get a new job, and move on.

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For those that don't closely track wine, the "System call thunks in NTDLL" is really important. This is a stepping stone to supporting a lot of different anti-cheat mechanisms.

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A few of these APIs are also used by wine-staging, as there's a bunch of features in Windows games that you cannot support without them. (PhysX in Borderlands 2 will refuse to run, for example)

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Quoting: Linuxwarper...
This [External Link] is how it compares to /r/pcgaming/ (blue). The only thing I can derive from it is that interest for gaming on Linux is growing.
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!100*linux_gaming/(pcgaming + linux_gaming) [External Link]

It definitely looks like we leveled off our decline, and maybe even have a bit of an uptick (percentage-wise) now. Note that the more recent data has that fuzz because there's a bunch of missing data there for /r/pcgaming/ (not sure why that's the case, but I'm not going to go to the trouble to try and clean it).

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Quoting: Linuxwarper...
Below is a graph that displays suscribers to /r/Linux_Gaming. Notice how ever since 2018 (Proton announcement) there has been a sharp uptick?
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That's a very interesting plot, I would be very curious to see how this data compares percentage-wise to some of the major gaming subreddits. Any chance you would enlighten us?

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Quoting: Sonata...
I mean stuff like Vanguard and DAC are kernel-level and would basically "take full control over the system" or be in the position to do so, if I'm not mistaken.
Would they also work that way under wine?...

Wine runs the "kernel" as a userspace process, so no - it would not give them full control of your Linux box. They do have "full control" of anything running in Wine (provided that Wine has implemented the calls they're using).

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Every time something breaks under Wine we learn more about how Windows works and get better and better at supporting it's eccentricities. For example, a Wine developer has already got a hack together for DAC:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3773#issuecomment-632292806 [External Link]

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