The situation is temporary?
In what way? AFAIK, the new fabs are all just going to churn out more high-bandwidth memory that's too expensive for consumers (and inherently so, because it replaces PCB elements with semiconductors; it won't become economical when the AI bidding/hoarding wars end).
DDR4 production is ending, DDR5 production is limited, apparently Micron will be "helping consumers" by supplying companies that make finished computers instead of making RAM consumers can actually buy...trickle-down RAM.

The future price of RAM is based on the price of unwanted Copilot Plus PCs people can harvest for memory.
That's an exaggeration, but I can't tell by how much...

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And if we check the dedicated tracker page, we find...yup. Linux share for English users is steady. Unchanged, even, which makes enough sense. It's a wretched time to buy new hardware, nothing has really happened last month to push people to switch, etc.

The drop is just the proportion of English-language Steam accounts.

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I just can't take accusations of Valve being an unfair monopoly seriously when their major corporate competitors like Amazon and Epic are a joke and function on the basis of throwing money at customers with giveaway games, and small independent competitors like itch.io seem safe in their niche.

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The legacy games industry is just wretched...
But hey, the layoffs will continue until productivity improves!
Maybe they'll eventually drive themselves into bankruptcy or irrelevance with all their "streamlining". I can dream.

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Quoting: XpanderPeople still pre-order games?

It really makes no sense anymore. There aren't logistics involved with manufacturing or delivery with digital games, obviously...and the companies offering pre-orders are all huge legacy publishers that have consistently burned their reputation over the course of decades now.

People get hyped, it's an IP they know, they saw a cool trailer, whatever.
Even if we ignored every previous outcome, the big publishers and studios have only continued to decline in working conditions, continued the mass-layoffs, and now chances are, they're doing AI stuff.

It's endlessly frustrating that all of that is just reinforced as everyone rushes out to throw their money at a game like this again.

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I think this really shows off how much long-term work Valve had to fund and wait for to make something like this possible. Without FEX, I imagine the Frame would have been x86-based to work as a "PC" and to play Steam games, but AFAIK most XR hardware is ARM-based. Without Proton, there wouldn't have even been a place to start. You can't make something like this while every game you distribute is stuck on Windows.

The tech industry likes talking about "magical experiences" whenever they do something particularly dystopian. I think Valve has actually created a "magical experience".

You can stuff x86 Windows games into an ARM Linux VR headset and expect them to run better than native.
How many years ago would each part of that sentence be utter madness?

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I left TwitX years ago, but I never managed to truly "switch to Mastodon" because I didn't end up engaging with the platform. I wish I could endorse it, but I just fell out of social media instead. I don't really condemn companies for having a TwitX presence, but I consider it a positive sign if they have a bsky or especially Mastodon.

I checked Hytale's website. They do have a Bluesky.

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I appreciate the linked article from UploadVR. Powerful ideas here, and they're amplifying my recent surge of interest in the Steam Frame. I'm believing that there's some really cool potential for "Personal Computing in VR".

"What I had trouble conveying is why openness and offline computing matter. I want an appliance that's both hard to break and easy to use, and I want a playground for everyone at least as big as the one I had to explore in 1995."

It's challenging to convey these ideas in words, though we try. I want to imagine that people will get a Steam Frame and feel it when they wouldn't have otherwise, because they already had a phone and computer and such that never gave them that experience.
I want to see those ideas the article covers, of blurred lines between "users" and "developers", of people creating lateral value, be proven in the real world.

Especially while Meta's VR program is, apparently, pulling back from expensive "creator competitions" that attempted to solve the same problem with the same "firehose of cash" approach that's worked so well for the likes of Amazon and Epic (with all of their freebies, etc.).

They're retreating, and Valve might show them up here in a way they can't pass off as "Steam is too big to compete with, we tried everything except launching our digital retailer with basic features like a shopping cart. Completely unfair."
No, Horizon-whatever has been established, the hardware was subsidized, they put their entire corporate identity into the "metaverse"...

...and Valve might still show them up. They might fail, but that can be said of any venture, and I think they have a shot at it.

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Instant wishlist + follow + please give it to me

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I mean, offhand, it sounds kind of like FakeSpot (one of Mozilla's unloved and abandoned acquisitions).
I think analyzing patterns in things like reviews is supposed to be something AI is actually good at. Though that's not to say I necessarily trust this implementation of it.
Actually reading reviews is also still important and I agree that summaries should not be placed over them.

Quoting: zerodoggI agree, though I get by with the "denuvo watch" curator, shows up as "Recommended against by Curators you follow" under "Is this game relevant to you?".

Sounds useful, I'm looking for that now!

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