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Quoting: Purple Library GuyShe's older, but as far as I can tell the younger supposedly all tech-savvy generation is pretty much the same--they're just really comfortable clicking those icons, but they mostly don't look beneath that.

A bit off-topic, but a friend of mine was talking this past week how she was teaching students in high school and had to show them how to do complicated computer things like…creating a folder to put their project photos in (it was an art class), or selecting more than one file at a time. :dizzy: Apparently "digital native generation" doesn't automatically equate to "knows anything about computers beyond surface level"! :happy:

I do IT support and I see a regular pattern that above a certain group (around 60) there is a dropoff in IT knowledge, but now also below 25 there is also a similar dropoff. Go close to 20 and below, and it is intense. I regularly have to talk people under 25 through IT basics, even on Windows. How to create and navigate folders, use Outlook, how to use the start menu, what a browser is and the difference between them, and so much more. The Pi Foundation has it right: education in IT is severely lacking these days and everyone should have to use a Pi and learn IT basics on it.

I actually think those of us who were using computers before about, well, 1995, have an advantage. If your early computers used DOS, you know in your bones there is something under that slick GUI. You've watched the abstraction layers stack up. The younger set don't really grok that there's anything behind the curtain.

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Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: picture£1000...
£900...
£1000...
£700...

Those scams are easily spotted: looking closer, all prices are nicely rounded values, but we all know retail prices always end by a 9 to make them more attractive to the consumer... Don't fall for it ! :tongue:

I feel like if some retail store started doing their prices in plain dollar amounts I'd shop there more just for the relief from stupidity and the feeling they were insulting me less.

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Quoting: subAnd we're left with a system that runs with a graphics driver blob only.

*meh*

And runs windows games via a compatibility layer. So how much left is running FOSS

Well, it's a FOSS compatibility layer.

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What I'm wondering is if industries like say animation might be looking at moving towards ARM and that might be part of what's driving this kind of thing.

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Quoting: denyasisThey are still good. Played them in 2008 as a "test" of my sound card and amp during my switch to Linux. Best test ever. Prolly still have them on CD some where.

Things that didn't age well... The sound effects, particularly some of the machine guns.

I've always thought of SCUMM as for the adventure games. It makes me wonder what underlying engine Crusader used?

SCUMM seems to have gone kind of the way GCC did, where it originally was the Gnu C Compiler but eventually was the Gnu Compiler Collection. If I remember right it's at this point a few different engines under one roof.

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So this lets people . . . play platformers and such . . . by typing in text.
Why?!
"Because it is there"

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Quoting: damarrinHeh, good point on covid vaccination... I was perhaps to general with the "general public" statement. It's probably more "Windows power users" who are proficient there and don't even consider anything other than Windows is to be used and particularly don't want to learn anything new. These are the people who go around on- and offline telling everyone who'll listen (insert "general public" here) Windows is the way to go. They are sizeable and very vocal and do MS's marketing for them.

Aye. Those people are there, and in absolute numbers there are quite a few of them. But really, an awful lot of computer users don't know what Windows is.
My wife of 25 years is an intelligent person but it was only a few years ago that there was a reason to have a conversation with her and really explain just what "Windows" is, what an operating system is, what the difference is between the operating system and a program running in the operating system, such as a browser . . . didn't help that this was in the context of her new Chromebook doing its best to muddle the distinction . . . The point is, she uses computers but doesn't normally think about them, she just clicks the icon that makes it do what she wants. She's older, but as far as I can tell the younger supposedly all tech-savvy generation is pretty much the same--they're just really comfortable clicking those icons, but they mostly don't look beneath that.

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: GuestWin 11 on Steam deck 64BG version...
No, no possible (ok its possible but no free space for any game left)

I mean there must be an option to attach some (yeah, rather slow) USB3 stick/HDD to it with a Steam collection anyhow.
64 Gb won't get you far even with a slim Linux distro.

Won't be playing Total War: Rome Remastered on that, that's for sure.

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Quoting: MohandevirQ2 2022 for the top tier... They must have sold a lot of them.

Q2 2022 for the middle one, too, now.

Geeze. I guess Valve are gonna have to ramp up the manufacturing.
If you're gonna have a problem, that's the kind of problem you want.

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Quoting: Tom BI am a Linux gamer and I know exactly what sort of compatibility to expect. A general audience won't and valve seem to be marketing this with very high expectations. I think there will be a lot of complaints unfortunately because some games inevitably won't work.

Probably, yeah.
Although . . . I mean, if I were them I'd be doing a two-pronged approach. One would be pushing general Proton improvement + anti-cheat. The other would be a team going game by game, starting with the biggest seller on Steam and working their way down. If they could get the top 100 all to Platinum by launch, while the general team had pretty good coverage below that, it might be surprising how little of what people were wanting to play would fail.

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