"Sober is a new way to play Roblox" . . . So, everyone was playing drunk before? Geeze, most of them are under age!

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Maybe they could change it so they cause frootloops instead?

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Heroic really seems like a very good project. Normally I just use Steam for everything, but I do have a couple of things that might benefit from firing up Heroic, I should give it a try.

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Boarding sports? Arrr, matey! Like "Deck rush" and "cutlass brandishing" (both "artistic" and "rhythmic" of course)?

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"Jackbrick Megabricker" :grin::grin::grin:

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Gotta hand it to them on the "being seriously metal" front.

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Quoting: TheRiddickStill needs multi-VRR and DLSS FG support. For such a MASSIVE corporation you'd think they be able to do that real fast

To be fair, they seem to be shrinking at high speed.

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Quoting: Mountain ManThat some companies choose to do so without coercion is commendable, but it would be immoral to force them to do so.

No it wouldn't. Companies are legal constructs, not people.

Hard disagree. I strongly reject the premise that individuals can be denied fundamental rights just because they happen to be part of a company.

The individuals who are part of a company already get forced to do things by the company; it makes no difference to most of them whether some of those directives come from the CEO or from the government via the CEO. The shareholders have extra rights by virtue of being shareholders (they get to own something and yet have limited liability for its debts), so there's nothing wrong with balancing that a bit.

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I mean, I'm very positive and all, but actually that graph makes it kind of clear: We're talking about 1% in 2 1/2 years. At that rate, in 25 years we'll be at 12%. World domination in under 250 years!
That said, significantly faster than the Linux desktop share grew from ~2000 to 2022, so still seems like pretty good times!

I think the network effect kicks in soon. Feels like it's happening now. It's shocking to see average users getting help with their game in non-Linux specific forums. That would just never, ever happen prior to the SteamDeck. In the past 25 years, MSFT has always been able to scuttle the ground Linux has made with gaming or hardware compatibility, if not that, MSFT has always used the power of their purse to crush any Linux adoption. So far there has been no response from MSFT, other than forcing it's OEM's to produce some of the worst handheld experiences. And their OEM's can't use SteamOS or they risk losing their volume licensing deals which would be suicide in volume pc sales. MSFT really has one chance to bring a handheld XBox OS that plays PC games for their OEMs. If they can't do that in the next 2-3 years and the SteamDeck2 releases, any XboxOS handheld will be DOA. MSFT needs a DX13 that is so compelling it forces every game studio to stop what they are doing and retool. Right now, as it is, in 2-3 years, game studios will be releasing games that were designed with Proton as a first class citizen. All these game studios will have support for Proton support built-in to their tools and libraries. MSFT is running out of time to scuttle gaming on Linux. I know I'm always optimistic about everything in life especially Linux. But seriously I am still gobsmacked over AAA titles SteamDeck verified day 1. Things are just different. It's exciting to see how it all fleshes out.

Not gonna argue, I do feel like there's a qualitative shift going on that makes further adoption easier.

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Quoting: Mountain ManThat some companies choose to do so without coercion is commendable, but it would be immoral to force them to do so.

No it wouldn't. Companies are legal constructs, not people. It isn't immoral to force them to do things. Sure, they've managed to get treated legally as "persons" and made successful legal appeals to the idea of having rights like humans, but those appeals are fundamentally fraudulent. They are not humans and should not have human rights. Thus, the only basis to judge whether it is appropriate to force a company to do something is the balance of harm to actual humans vs. benefit to actual humans . . . measured in utility, not dollars.

Quoting: Mountain ManAs always, the power rests in the hands of consumers to support those companies who do right by them, and avoid those that don't.

Only to a very limited extent. There is massive information asymmetry in that relationship . . . and the only way to reduce it, incidentally, is to force companies to do things. In which case you might as well just directly force them not to do objectionable things.

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