What I keep wondering is, OK, we got these streaming game services. A couple already, plus Amazon now. Soooo . . . what's their market share like?
There's plenty of hype, and some people clearly are playing them. But are they catching on? Are they eating anyone's lunch? Or are they currently a relatively fringe thing, for all the talk? Is it a bandwagon Valve better jump on, or just mostly a money sink? Note that I'm willing to buy either possibility, I'm just complaining I don't have the data to judge from.
It's the same thing I've been wondering about the Epic store, which I haven't heard as much about lately. Everyone was talking how Valve needed to do various things to meet this threat, and they mostly didn't, and it's still unclear whether they had any need to.

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Quoting: elmapulbtw, purple is my favorite collor, so this background is automagically beautyfull
and the name is a perfect fit.

but the controller, looks like some one just glued togheter 2 pieces to pretend they were just one...
hopefully i'm right and you can change the base depending on your hands size...

I heartily endorse the purpleness of it.
The controller has a bit of purple theme going, too, so it's not all bad.

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That's hilarious.

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Huh, that looks interesting. I bought Patchman, mostly because of the whole initially-exclusive-for-Linux thing, but haven't actually gotten around to playing it yet.
But this looks like it's made by people who, I dunno, aren't quite as young any more. And I mean that in a good way.

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Quoting: PhlebiacThe problem is that Google intentionally hinders other browsers; for example, YouTube is using deprecated HTML which other browsers don't support, just to make the experience there slightly worse on browsers other than Chrome. I wouldn't trust Microsoft not to start doing the same for Edge.

Now that's an old song. Remember when Microsoft Internet Exploder used to pull exactly that kind of crap? The more things change . . .

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Amnesia . . . huh, I can't seem to remember what this is.

But, jolly nice of them.

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Quoting: pete910Well, Demons and what not are ice skating at home apparently!

I think Satan has been having a lot of trouble with the looming problem of Hellish Cooling.

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Before I even read the comments . . .
I'm fine with this happening. One more thing making it easier for some Windows users to migrate. Why MS might want to do this gets murky no doubt, but whatever they're thinking I can't see how they could make this harm Linux.

But I'm not going to use it. Don't use it at work on Windows when I can avoid it, am fairly convinced that Microsoft are basically kind of crappy at making browsers, so why would I deliberately use their browser on Linux?

Although there might be an "Edge" case where I might . . . soooo, there's this browser-based thing I have to use for work. It seems to have been carefully designed to cause all of the problems being browser-based can cause, while avoiding any of the advantages being browser-based can give you. And specifically, you're not supposed to have an instance on more than one tab--so you can't, for instance, open the next piece of workflow in a new tab. Or rather, you can but apparently it can cause data corruption so you're not supposed to. Brilliant, just brilliant. But this is complex library software, and there are quite a few reasons I want to be looking one kind of thing up while working with another kind of thing, copy/paste between them and stuff. It turns out that if I have two different browsers open, it's OK to have one of this thing open in each. Normally, I use one Firefox and one Chromium for this purpose. But I use Mint, and they're not exactly doing Chrome with the latest release because of that whole thing with the Snaps from Ubuntu. Might be a problem when I move my desktop to the latest Mint. So, maybe I could use Edge for that. Or maybe there's some other browser I could grab.

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Sings of Sox.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyYou're comparing apples and oranges.

bravo you're just defeated your own point. apples and oranges have quite a few things in common you know. It's debating whether one is unequivocally better than the other is silly.

Hrm, no. You're right in a sense, but that's not really what the expression means. The point is you're talking as if they are both apples and saying "This is a much crappier apple than the other one because it has a really thick skin which tastes really weird when you bite into it, and like a good apple has seeds only in the core and you just eat around the core, but this apple had seeds all through these funny segment things so if I wasn't careful I'd bite right into them and--" and McCoy is saying that's because you're comparing an orange.

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