Quoting: TermyI tend to agree with the criticism about unstable APIs for many cases - but in this case, i really blame Epic for using a function deprecated for almost two decades in a recent piece of software.

Well, the function wasn't marked as deprecated as far as I can tell, it was just removed in a minor update without warning. The Epic engineer probably didn't know about it, they just used a function that was there and had the rug suddenly pulled out from under them.

And since Epic doesn't care about Linux because no users and it was Valve who probably pressured/paid them to support us, this is basically Linux people shooting Linux in the foot... almost as if they didn't want more people using it. Imagine that.

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Good job telling people "my way or the highway" and watching in bemused surprise as they choose the highway. And we wonder why we have no users.

As has been mentioned above, this is the dominant position in the mobile space, with Apple recently starting to remove "unmaintained apps" from their app store. They also do this on the desktop, to a lesser degree. If anyone ever wondered why everything is subscription-based there, this is the answer. Software requires constant work, you can't just publish something and expect it to work months, much less years down the line.

I put up with this on my phone because privacy (though I've given up on paying for anything), but not on the desktop. Here, the standard Microsoft has created is the correct one and Linux people should be following them and not the Apple way. Unupdated software should continue working for decades. This is how you build trust and reliability.

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RE3 is fully playable without a hitch on the SD, I have no idea why it’s marked unsupported.

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Some excellent games there. I thought the final season was a bit of a let down, but Clementine's journey is definitely worth making.

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I don't have an Apple Silicon machine, but I do have a 2019 Intel MBP. It's barely useable with Linux and I've given up on it. I guess all the dev attention is on those ARM machines now and the Intel Macs will not get much support from the Linux community. It's a shame, but undeerstandable.

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How much VAT is there in France? The US price includes no tax, some 7-8% will be added on purchase. The € price includes the 15-20% of tax.

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That's what you get for being stuck in a library all the time.

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Wow, this is something I did not expect.

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Quoting: TheRiddickAlso sad how they HARD push windows on these devices, like are you paying $100 on top for the windows license? how that work? I don't think MS give out free copies to companies!

This is a mutually beneficial agreement, I’m sure. MS is almost certainly giving them incentives for promoting Windows at every step, like almost free MS products for their own business. They have been very good at convincing companies they absolutely need MS software to keep running their business, so the vision of losing those benefits and suddenly having to pay full price for all the software is enough to keep everyone in line.

Now that there’s some sort of competition in the form of SteamOS, MS may become a lot more aggressive in their attempts to maintain the status quo. Like, reducing the price of Windows licenses for the devices which can then be passed onto consumers. Or, more likely, which can then not be passed onto consumers.

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Having thought about this for a bit, allow me to translate:

Valve contacted us about cooperation proposal

Valve publicly stated they’ll release SteamOS for anyone to use and for free, the morons.

Valve needs to match the appropriate Steam OS system for our 6800U handheld

Our device is so much better than the Steam Deck, it has a higher number! And SteamOS is no good for it. Since Valve are such morons, they’ll fix it up for us for free.

we will agree to this cooperation, we think this cooperation will be the best.

Hey, Microsoft, hello? So, what are you now going to do for us to keep pushing Windows for you?

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