Quoting: TheSHEEEP10-20% is fair, with a higher cut as developers can opt in to additional services (forum, matchmaking, etc.) with 20-30% being the cut for all services used.

I understand your point, but if you offer the community features as an option, you also alter user experience. Steam users want the whole package and that's why they use Steam. Struck in a game? Just open the overlay and browse through the community guides! Got a new game to play with your pad? You can browse through community configs and pick the most used and you're set.
Steam does make money, but they invest in features for their users. Epic makes money, and invests in, well, more money.

But hey, what can you expect from a company which cancelled Unreal Tournament 4 in favour of Fortnite?
They haven't been able to release a decent shooter since 2004, anyway.

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Quoting: WendishBovineInvisible War (I know people like to bash it but it looks decent, like a KOTOR-lite).

The fact is that Invisible War was some kind of a "Deus Ex for XBox", and nowadays I tend to see it almost as a spin-off. It's really limited, and is more or less the same quality standard as Project Snowblind. Which is, well, decent, as you put it.

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Also having different tools to achieve the same goal is better because in case of an incompatibility with DXVK, people are glad they can switch back to WineD3D. Imagine if X11 development was completely abandoned in favour of Wayland, that would be a real mess.

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Trying out my brand new Logitech MX518 Legendary playing some of my favourite FPS, namely Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Painkiller HD. Also got to try it on CS:GO.

After two Razers and a SteelSeries Rival 300, plus a fair amount of non-gaming mice (including Apple mice from my Mac-era), I've got got tell you it's the best mouse ever. The worst I had is the SteelSeries, felt cheap and ended up having the two click buttons rubbing each other which made it uncomfortable to play with. I loved my Razors but let's be honest, they don't look serious enough on a workstation, and they are not tank-built like the MX518. Also each had its own flaw, like the Abyssus' lift distance which was... well... abysmal. The Copperhead from my Quake clanarena days was also not very comfortable, I mainly played claw-grip at the time. On those two I had the same issue with the wheel, which is really tough in the beginning and breaks after a year or two. Their wheels are not meant to be used for everyday computing and that's irritating.

The MX518's Hero sensor is just amazing, best tracking I ever had, and that's coming from a Pixart 3360. I'm impressed.

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Quoting: rregeerHave it on stream. Works really good with proton.

there's a perfectly working native port tho.
smh what wine does to ppl

There's no native version of this game, unless you mean Doom64EX which is not official.

well... never said nufin about oficiallness... Doom64EX is long since available, native, honest, and works fine. What else one would need.
Besides, nightdive are dirty little bloody liars.

PS "works well in Proton" should be on the offtopic list in a place like this. it's getting worse..

Well Doom64EX does run natively, but it is not the exact same experience [External Link] as the official re-release, tl:dr the new release is closer to the N64.

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I think that each people is going for a freedom of some sort. I understand people who reject DRM as such, and I'm not the one to blame them. In fact I even would like all game engines to be open source enven if the assets are proprietary, but I know this is not going to happen.
The reason I buy from Steam is to support further developpement, and if it wasn't for Steam, I would have kept buying consoles anyway, which are heavily DRM'd nowadays as you may know.
I think both approaches are fine as long as they fit your own convictions. When I was buying from GOG I used to buy a Crossover licence anyway, so I kept supporting Wine developpement.
And let's not forget itch and Humble in the equation (though the later is just a shadow of its former glory).

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Updated yeasterday, using stock GNOME3 desktop, it's really stable.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is why we need another player in the x86 CPU market: Nvidia

God no! Not them!
They are as unfriendly towards open source as a vendor can get. Also don't forget their GPUs already have security flaws to begin with.

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Quoting: omer666I had been using Arch on a daily basis for a long time, and I learned so many things along the way, but when I stopped having enough time to manage it I had to switch to Fedora which is a good intermediate solution for me.
Had Manjaro been a thing when I switched, I would definitely have had a look.

More FUD.... Arch does not need "time" to manage it, in fact, it is the easiest to manage distro on the planet. Once you have set up the distro to your liking, it is just a matter of using pacman (or a wrapper like pacaur for me personally) to update the system periodically, plus monitoring the Arch site/feed for the occasional intervention. I rarely have to change things for months and months, all i do are updates the vast majority of the time.

On the other hand, Fedora needs distro-upgrading every 6 months, how is that better?

Plus Fedora has always been a testing distro, oftentimes they include beta versions of software plus many times things break.

If you've been using Arch for so long, I guess you remember the switch to systemd don't you?

I also guess you never experienced any breaking bug that you had to work around? Like having to investigate which piece of software keeps triggering a kernel panic since your last pacman -Sy?

Sounds strange to me, because as I said I've been using it myself quite a bit - look for my nickname on Arch forums if you need any proof of it - and I do remember quite accurately spending a great deal of time on managing it. I don't mean that it was unpleasant, but it DID take some care and time, and a lot more than a simple Fedora update which amounts to half an hour.

I also don't quite like the tone of your reply, especially you calling me out for spreading "FUD." My goal is absolutely not to keep people away from Arch, in fact I think it's a great way to get to know how a distro works behind the scene, but just to share my experience and tell other people that yes, I would have dug Manjaro if I had the chance to do so at the time.
I may have to mention that I took care of reporting a lot of bugs and I am quite the perfectionist when it comes to how my computer runs, tracking down small errors and all.

Also never had any big technical problem using Fedora, I don't know what you call unfinished or beta state, coming from an Arch user it's quite funny. Who's spreading FUD now?

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Because their CPUs are so much better right now and because their GPUs have the best open source support right now and just caught up with Nvidia's cards regarding energy efficiency, my next rig is gonna be full AMD.

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