Bethesda please just let it die and concentrate on TESVI: if you try really hard (and fire Pagliarulo) there is a chance it won't suck...

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Quoting: GoEsrApple were the ones fighting against it, as I said. The point is, per your original comment, that laws applied in important markets like the EU and the US do tend to just be applied globally because it's easier and cheaper.

No, you are misunderstanding: it's not "laws tend to be applied globally". They are not, in any way. It's corporations that adopt *globally* a standard/convention required by laws in one market if it's cheaper and easier than splitting their product lines/procedures.
Please tell me how it's easier and cheaper for, let's say Ubuntu, to implement age checks in the EU if those checks are required by US laws.
And btw those checks could actually be against EU privacy laws...

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Quoting: GoEsrEU laws don't apply in the US, yet every new iPhone has a USB-C port despite Apple yelling and spitting like a Visigoth against it.

And that's because the EU smartphone market is bigger than the USA, by a couple hundreds million users actually. USB-C is also mandatory in India, which has a smartphone market about the same size of the USA, but it's expected to grow a lot in the coming years. Also China with its huge market (bigger than EU and US combined, by a lot) while not having mandatory USB-C laws, is pretty much aligned with the decision to adopt the better, common standard.
It only made sense for Apple to move away from their proprietary stuff in this case: splitting their product lines just for one tiny, in comparison, market was out of the question from an economical standpoint.

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Thank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

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I really hope they don't encrypt the ROMs like they did in Capcom Arcade Stadium or Konami Arcade Classics.
I want to play my legally owned ROMs on emulators!

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¨gaming optimized distros" are the dumbest thing ever, hobby projects that do not contribute anything upstream and do not teach their users anything.
But they are always fast and efficient when they have to setup their patreon...

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Good, x86 has to go away.

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I honestly can't comprehend why people keep bothering with 'Native Linux'

Yes, people should definitely stop developing software for Linux!

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We get tens of thousands of games that run and run very well, and developers can spend more time actually building their games instead of focusing on fixing up issues for our (let's face it) tiny user share. Proton is a good great thing for gamers.

Yes, YES!!! Keeping our (gaming) future tied so closely to Microsoft it's good great!

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In the long run a single build is easier for developers to test and support, and Proton can keep games running on Linux practically forever after developers move on or shut down. A layer to continue supporting games like Proton just makes more and more sense as time goes on.

Yes! Also developers don't need to invest time to learn developing for, or even run their builds on, Linux: they just need to keep using Microsoft solutions everywhere!
This is truly awesome!

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