Companies when they get bought by bigger companies: "this is great, now we can finally afford to deliver the games we want". When they split: "this is great, now we can finally have the freedom to deliver the games we want".

I guess game development is brutal, you can never make the games you really want to make.

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Please be more concrete: On my single person PC, which is either turned off or I'm logged in, what can it do with root access that it cannot do without?

Bunch? It could take control of your network card and monitor what every app does (spy on you). You can't do that without elevated access (e.g. if you try to run wireshark to monitor your own applications).

Heck, it can basically read the memory contents of every application, including every key, password, whatever. (Like, using proc/PID/mem, or just insert a kernel module with unrestricted access to all memory).

Remember that a basic job of the OS is to isolate processes. So an infected non-root app may be able to access your home, but it can't access other processes (like your browser, or the service that provides your keyring). With root privileges, that isolation is gone.

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Wouldn't make a big difference in my single user PC. Running as me already has access to nearly all private data.

While that _is_ a problem, and why sandboxing is something important for Steam/flatpak/etc to do (as the main source of non-public binaries), having root access goes beyond accessing your private data.

Like, think about catching the flu and wearing a mask. Yes, you get the flu and your personal body is in danger, but you were a mask to stop affecting others. Your personal data is in danger, but with root access the virus can take control of your computer and do worse stuff, like spread more easily, participate in ddos attacks etc.

One more thing. Even debian packages mostly containing open-source software are delivered to you in binary form, basically this is a matter of trust. You trust that debian servers are delivering virus-free binaries, you trust that apt makes sure there is no man-in-the-middle attack. Same way you trust flatpak or Steam to protect you.

When you download something through the browser, you need to 1) trust the developer that their binary is virus free and 2) that what you downloaded is what they provided. For 2, you need to verify the hash like I said (a rare practice thanks to windows). For 1, that's a risk you take and you can minimize it by, like I said, avoiding root or using a live usb with no access to your disks (and data).

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Easy Installation – Just download, make the file executable, and you're ready to go.

They missed a bullet point:

* Same ease of catching a virus as Windows - With binary downloaded off the internet, you can welcome the man in the middle to your machine, just like Windows. You won't miss a thing!

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Do _not_ blindly follow theses instructions. For one, make sure they provide a hash (like md5) of the binary that you can calculate after download and compare. This makes sure what you downloaded is actually what they provided. Also to reduce further risk (because, do you fully trust this developer?), run from a live boot without your disks mounted.

If it asks for root permissions, beware that it can do _anything_, do _not_ give. Unfortunately, windows devs are used to accessing whatever they want willy nilly, so the devs might have gotten lazy and decided to "just ask to be root".

Ultimately, the best way to avoid the risks of running random binaries off the internet is to not run random binaries off the internet. :)

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Clearly, NetEase Games are showing how it can be done here.

More likely, there's one dev who is a Linux user and fixed a little bug on their own. That's usually how Linux gets "support", not because the company management actually sets any directive or resources for it.

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I got a lot of fun out of Robocraft, it's a shame (but also I haven't played it for many years).

> a shame that they can't release any of their source code

They can't, or won't?

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additional configurations coming in May starting at $599.99. The SteamOS version is due in May with a starting price of $499.99.

Really glad to see this, price is a big motivator

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Quoting: woox2kUnlike others here, my Windows usage went up drastically this year. It was all "thanks" to Satisfactory not really working out for me in Linux and i had to play it in Windows.
While it is supposed to work just fine on Linux i guess my CPU (5600X) just was not enough to keep up and i was getting very regular and annoying frametime spikes whatever graphics settings i used to a point it felt like the game was running at 30fps in mid-game. Frametimes were a lot better on Windows until the very end game, i guess wine etc. just has a bit more CPU overhead on Linux.

This is the difference between Factorio and all these wannabes.

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Pretty sure in the last minute it'll get pulled. Just after a reminder from microsoft that they'll ruin them if they don't.

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we *did* take the disputed page down as soon as we got the notice because it's not worth fighting stuff like that

Curious, what did itch put in the "disputed page" to trigger this?

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