I suppose in theory, especially what with many games being so huge compared to the OS itself, you could distribute a game with its own custom Linux kernel that incorporated the kernel-level anticheat and have it run on that . . . .

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without clear direction

But there is a clear direction: Up the screen! :grin:

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There's always jerks in any community. In corporations they become the boss and nobody can say no to them. One of the big benefits of Free/Open Source software is that you can tell the jerks to go (insert appropriate expletives here) and do good things without them.

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So up to now, Steam Deck support wasn't really . . . Satisfactory.

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Work use-cases can be tricky. Sometimes there's that one particular thing you have to do for work, like you actually need to do surgery on .pdfs that you can't really do without Acrobat Pro, or you actually need some of the weird advanced features in Excel to do with charts and such, or you need exact visual fidelity on the roundtrips between Word and LibreOffice Writer.

That last I believe can be made a lot better if you arrange to get your hands on the Windows fonts and put them in where LibreOffice can see them. Or I guess put some of the fonts you find in Linux into Windows? Anyway, a lot of the trouble with Word on Windows and LibreOffice on Linux documents not looking quite the same is if they don't have the right font and just grab some other one that's available to use instead. That can affect not just how the letters look, but how much space they end up taking up, which will mess up layout. Have the right font and everything will be a lot closer to identical.

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Wonder if we'll be buying Chinese chips in five years.

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I see a lot to like about this, but every time the cargo bounces around or out, I'm mentally screaming "JUST . . . TIE . . . IT . . . DOWN!!!"

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Game seems more timely than ever . . .

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I like the idea of being able to switch between old and new graphics at will, and it gives me a pleasant feeling like they respect both, you know? The "traditional mode" and "story mode" seem good too.

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OK, this is kind of an incredible idea, but I don't understand why I'd want to experience it.

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