Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

And I only received that prompt a couple months ago, despite being on Linux since last March.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pyrate

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Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course

Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

We're talking about two completely different things.

If we are, maybe you could explain? Because I'm seeing no indication. All I saw was a guy calling me tech illiterate and lazy. Which, true enough, but the way techies say that kind of stuff betrays a misunderstanding of what computer use is for.

Where did I call *you* lazy etc?

I'm now willing to believe you didn't, but when I say I don't want to deal with (something Fedora does) and am glad Mint is around for people like me, and you reply that you like Fedora but distros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness have their place, the obvious implication is that people like me who use those distros that 'just work' are tech illiterate and lazy. Might want to spend a bit of time working on your communication literacy instead of your tech literacy.

I don't know why you respond in such a manner still, I also don't understand why you insist on making this about yourself when I never replied to your comments or mention you at all.

Since this is the response after I went ahwad and further detailed what I originally meant in the first comment, then I'm going to ignore any further replies here, maybe even check if this website supports blocking users too.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course

Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

We're talking about two completely different things.

If we are, maybe you could explain? Because I'm seeing no indication. All I saw was a guy calling me tech illiterate and lazy. Which, true enough, but the way techies say that kind of stuff betrays a misunderstanding of what computer use is for.

Where did I call *you* lazy etc? I was talking about the general prospect of using an OS on one's device while not understanding basic things like installing packages, and how a majority of people, especially my generation, are completely oblivious on how to use a computer because all they know is their touchscreen phones and tablets.

Like I said in the original comment, I appreciated Fedora's approach to these things because they allowed me to actually know the basic stuff that (I believe) anyone should know if they don't want to look clueless using their computer. I thought it was the perfect distro for that, not too difficult and complex like Arch, and not too dumbed down that it gives me the illusion of convenience and that I can pretend I'm still using Windows and don't need to learn anything new (and face trouble later down the line). I'm not talking about deep low level stuff, just the minimum basic information that you should know to be good to go.

This is different than what you brought up in the sense that "having better things to do" is more akin to using one of those rolling release distros that are bound to break and waste your time fixing all those issues, and doesn't really apply (in my experience) to Fedora, which has been rock solid across the two systems I use Fedora on.

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Quoting: officerniceSo.... I guess this means we can soon wave farewell to Titanfall 2 as well.

Titanfall 2 is abandoned, we're good.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course

Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

We're talking about two completely different things.

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As long as these devs don't post some statistics to support their "findings" I'll keep calling bullshit on this "Linux makes cheating easy".

I refuse to believe the amount of cheaters who would go out of their way and install a whole different OS just to cheat to be of any signifiacnce. Cheaters are lazy bitches, most of them would probably get filtered just by the aspect of dualbooting alone.

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Quoting: PyrateGreat news. Hopefully this starts a similar "game contains Denuvo" sentiment from Steam users (on Linux or otherwise), so that it slowly builds more disliking to the concept on a wide scale, not just Linux players.

You can follow this curator to mostly get that:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454-Denuvo-Games/ [External Link]

Yep, and we need something similar set up for kernel anticheat games now.

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Iguess I'm the only newcomer to Linux who picked Fedora and never looked elsewhere, I think I downloaded codecs at one point just to follow what everyone else is doing, but I don't remember ever having an issue prior to when I randomly thought of installing them.

I'd say Fedora is perfect for newbies who aren't afraid of their devices and don't mind "learning" the OS that they'll be using all the time. Dsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course, it's cool that we have both options.

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Great news. Hopefully this starts a similar "game contains Denuvo" sentiment from Steam users (on Linux or otherwise), so that it slowly builds more disliking to the concept on a wide scale, not just Linux players.

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Quoting: ToddL

Quoting: PyrateI've also been thinking about doing a console-style mini PC, even though its probably redundant to do so when I already have a Deck and a dock...

I was thinking the same thing about getting a console-style mini PC for some time after owning the Steam Deck for a couple of years and recently decided to purchase a PC that was small enough to fit a low profile GPU because I wanted to play games that the Steam Deck struggled to run. That PC will end up using Bazzite on it since I hear good things about it even though I know that ChimeraOS and Nobara exist.

Quoting: Zlopez

Quoting: PyrateI've also been thinking about doing a console-style mini PC, even though its probably redundant to do so when I already have a Deck and a dock...

I have a Deck and a dock too, but the resolution doesn't look great on TV and the Steam Deck is struggling with some games. So my idea is to build something more powerful, but still a small one.

Any mini PC recommendations? I'm looking for ready-made a little box, so not looking to build my own pc.

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