Quoting: PenglingIt was part of how they tried to paint Linux as "lesser", for sure.

Given my level of exposure to Linux at the time, it certainly worked on me. Ironically, I eventually installed Linux Mint on my netbook after the WinXP support ended.

Quoting: PenglingI would say that they did more damage than tablets did

I will certainly defer to your direct experience. At that time, I was out of touch with the computer industry for my mental health so I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on. The netbook was just a neat tool with a lot of potential to me. I didn't discover how far Linux had come until 2014 when my laptop's HDD died and the Win7 backup wouldn't reinstall on the new HDD.

Looking back, I can certainly see how netbooks would have been a big deal to the Linux community and I understand your distaste for what was done.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: Purple Library Guywith all Windows versions you'd still have that "this doesn't work well on this kind of device" problem.

And that quite quickly leads the masses to the mistaken belief of "These portable PCs actually aren't any good.", leading to manufacturers no longer making them because the demand gets destroyed. :dizzy: As I've said far too many times (including in this very thread :tongue:), it's exactly like what happened with how the netbook product-category was killed off*.

I don't think you need to worry about that too much. To make that happen, the Windows netbooks had to dominate the category, at least briefly. They could do that because MS had a lot of control over the OEMs that were making them, so they could lean on them to mostly drop the Linux ones--maybe not completely, but slow down production, marketing and placement enough for the Windows ones to become the default. But Microsoft does not have any control over Valve, and no competitor that has yet appeared seems likely to dominate the Deck in sales or even publicity, certainly not enough to define the category in the public's eyes.

There may be something to that. For myself - which may or, more likely, may not be a reflection of the greater whole - I discovered netbooks while I was in trade school, reeducating myself in midlife. I found that a netbook running a full version of Windows XP without an optical drive was more convenient, lighter and infinitely more portable than my full sized laptop. My only encounters with Linux at that time had been more CLI and/or very basic GUI - nothing to cause me to throw over Windows for Linux. Acer had put out the ZG5 netbooks with your choice of WinXP on a 120GB HDD or some unknown distro of Linux on an 8GB or 16GB SD drive (this was pre-SSD). Given a choice like that, I went the direction I imagine a lot of consumers would have and chose the WinXP model.

This amount of difference between the Windows and Linux models could very much have influenced the choices of more consumers than just myself. Perhaps these configuration differences were also a factor?

I always felt that Google's Android and the advent of the tablet form factor played a huge part in the demise of netbooks. I preferred the netbook form factor myself.

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Quoting: dpanterCurrently on GOG:
Giveaway Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War [External Link]
Free Warhammer Skulls 2024 Digital Goodie Bag
[External Link]

Got Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War for free on Steam last year. Now I have it for free on GOG too. Thanks for the tip, dpanter!

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Quoting: EduAAAThey very generous, free game, but when you check let's see hmm, it's not the full game, it's a way to make people buy must have dlcs unless you wanna play a demo.

Not sure what you're getting at with this statement since the version of Dragon Age Inquisition that Epic is giving away is the Game of the Year edition, which includes the DLC and other bonuses.

Of all the free offers I looked at from this article, the only giveaway with just the core game is ENDLESS Legend. There is a ton of DLC for this one. The core game is not a demo, however, and no one is obligated to buy the DLC. Of course, I am sure that the hope is that you will like the base game enough to want to purchase some of the DLC ...

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To think I was considering to eventually try the other Dragon Age games and the Mass Effect series, once I get through more of my backlog. EA just keeps doing things that make me want to boycott them instead ...

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Quoting: Talon1024The Seven Deadly Sinners of the Game Industry

Greed: EA
Wrath: Nintendo
Sloth: Bethesda
Pride/Hubris: Rockstar Games
Lust: Epic Games
Gluttony: Microsoft
Envy: ???

Wouldn't Embracer and Microsoft be in competition for the Gluttony slot?

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: PublicNuisance

Quoting: Caldathras

It's worth noting at this point that Take-Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, was paid $42.1 million last year, which is more than two-and-a-half times the previous year. So once again, the people at the top are pulling in big numbers while cutting the people doing the work.

This needs to be pointed out more often. No one deserves this high a salary, especially at the expense of those that earn much less. Plain greed.

:angry:

What's the correct number for them to make ? How do you arrive at that number ? Who gets to decide ? I'm not trying to defend Take Two but at the same time trying to dictate how much people are allowed to make is a recipe for a different form of tyranny.

Well, in the end that would be the commoners (i.e., the working class) - much to the terror of the elite classes. Does the French Revolution or Russia's February Revolution ring a bell?

As to your other thoughts, I defer to the answers from others.

I am part of the working class. I work six day weeks, 48 hours a week, to just get by. That means I get to decide ? So I could say that there should be no ceiling for earnings and torpedo your whole plan ? Can I also decide how much you get to earn ? You may not like my thoughts on that number right now.

You failed to answer me how much this man should earn or how you arrived at the number. There is no right number and that's why. The whole argument is just to hate the "rich". You say that this is for the terror of the elites but it should terrify anyone at allowing anybody to make law how much another person can earn. It would never end at the "elites" and would end up affecting the very people you claim to want to help anyway.

So am I. I've already capped my own earnings, thanks.

I've made no claims of wanting to help anyone. At what point did I suggest anything about a law? This is a matter of ethics not legality. Is there a "right" number? I have no idea. But compensation at the level of $42 million is just pure greed. No CEO contributes enough to a company to deserve that, period. Before the eighties, this was understood. Now everything is just pure greed.

Oh, and yes, as a member of the common folk, you do get to decide. Collectively or individually. You've just presumably chosen not to exercise that option and decided to live within the system provided to you by the elite.

Quoting: PublicNuisanceallowing anybody to make law how much another person can earn.

FYI, most Western governments already do this. Are you not familiar with minimum wage legislation?

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Quoting: Mountain Manand the harsh reality is that sometimes layoffs are necessary to keep a business solvent.

But it doesn't look good when the CEO (or his Board) gives himself a $20 million raise/bonus at the same time. Instead, it looks like the CEO is terminating employees simply to justify padding his own pockets. This leads one to question his ethics.

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Quoting: PublicNuisance

Quoting: Caldathras

It's worth noting at this point that Take-Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, was paid $42.1 million last year, which is more than two-and-a-half times the previous year. So once again, the people at the top are pulling in big numbers while cutting the people doing the work.

This needs to be pointed out more often. No one deserves this high a salary, especially at the expense of those that earn much less. Plain greed.

:angry:

What's the correct number for them to make ? How do you arrive at that number ? Who gets to decide ? I'm not trying to defend Take Two but at the same time trying to dictate how much people are allowed to make is a recipe for a different form of tyranny.

Well, in the end that would be the commoners (i.e., the working class) - much to the terror of the elite classes. Does the French Revolution or Russia's February Revolution ring a bell?

As to your other thoughts, I defer to the answers from others.

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I'm not much for horror games but this looks really amazing.

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