Alternatively, don't support terrible anti-cheat practices with your money.

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I have mixed feelings about Black Mesa. Visually it's fantastic, and it's great to replay Half-Life with a more modern look. But as the game goes on, they diverged more and more from the original. Zen is huge in Black Mesa, and while it *looks* great, it's so formulaic (combat, platform, puzzle, repeat) that it feels more like a drag. Half-way through Zen, I felt like I'm just pushing forward just to say I finished the game.

There was something about Half-Life that made it a great game, the new Zen doesn't have that something.

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I've been putting a lot of time in Rogue Legacy 2, and revisiting Dome Keeper on my SD.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: EikeI don't want to predict, nor did I say so.

That's what fitting the data to a curve is.

QuoteI want to describe what has happened.

That's what the trend line does.

Which you already know because of your super statistical analysis skills, obviously.

Should you wish to examine the positive trend line for any range of the data, you already can. Slapping an arbitrary curve onto the data is pure fappery.

I'm sure you are both old enough to understand internet arguments like this don't get anywhere. Can we de-escalate please?

CatKiller is right that fitting a curve to the data is dangerous in that you are claiming that's the function the data is following, but it may not be.

Eike is also right because their claim is exactly the same thing! That the linear fit here is wrong, is exactly the same argument CatKiller has, any fit can be wrong.

So either don't fit anything, or if you do, I tend to agree with Eike that a line is definitely not the right fit as it ignores a major event point in the history.

It's like making a trend line on global temperature since 5000 years ago and make it look like global warming isn't happening. The industrial revolution happened and that changed the trend.

So my suggestion is, forget the trend before Steam Deck! The extrapolation of that trend is a hypothetical that's never happening, nor does the "what if" matter. Instead, if you have to fit a curve, fit one with the data from after the release of SD only, as the data from before does not correlate with it, and it presents a more meaningful prediction of what the future may look like.

Edit: lol, looks like you sorted things out while I was typing this

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Currently doing local coop with my wife, we're mid-autumn first year. I don't think we'd start over though, just got my tools in gold :P

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I thought they got handed a big bag of $ from microsoft, but their praise for Linux ("a more convenient game management, smooth and stable gaming performance, lower overall power consumption") makes me doubt that. They wouldn't be allowed to crap over windows if that was the case.

It feels like they are scared it would flop if users keep asking for windows and they don't deliver, so they do it even though they think it's wasting their device?

I certainly hope they realize no one is going to risk changing the OS on their word that it's better, they'd just return it because it performs bad. They should seriously consider selling the device with either OS, and when word gets out that the Linux one works fine and the windows one doesn't, people will start making the right choice.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThese days, I think I'll start doing my writing with Atari Works. :P

Joke aside, look into LaTeX! Such a relief not getting bogged down with formatting vs WYSIWYG.

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I recommend this game too! It's hillarious, and has a surprising amount of depth. Each playthrough is very long (I played through one over a week or like 10 days), so it's not a quick pickup. There is meta progression in the form of new "tech".

The game does keep you on your toes at times, though it's generally not very hard. In my first playthrough, I managed to not hit a single disaster, although it did come to chance 2 or 3 times.

Anyway, like I said it's a fun and funny game and the developer is very responsive. They deserve your money!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnyway, nearly 4%. I've never seen a number that high for Linux desktop use. And while OK, the latest month was a big jump, that general trend looks really nice. Not only is it an upward slope, but it seems to me that it's slightly upward curving. We are starting to get into traditional MacOS territory; one or two more percentage points and Linux becomes something general software companies may start paying some attention to.

It's interesting to see what happens in January and February. December means more people at home and fewer in the office. This jump could mean that corporations' OS use is biased more towards windows, and home computers more towards Linux.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: CatKillerChromeOS has been able to run Linux applications in a container for around five years.

I know it can run Linux programs through a container, but this is kind of like Linux only being able to run programs in Wine. Like, there being no "native" Linux layer to write programs for. Which is so weird!

My understanding was that the Linux container thing was only for developers, and not for normal Chromebook users.

It's not at all like running programs through wine. It's a Linux system running Linux apps. It may use a container for better security or compatibility, what's wrong with that? Containers basically just use "namespaces" to isolate apps, and that's a Linux kernel feature.

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