I ditched Ubuntu for Mint a while back. Yes, because of Snap. If I wanted a proprietary, vendor-controlled app store, I'd have bought a Mac. Going back from KDE Plasma to Cinnamon felt like a step backwards at first, but Cinnamon is decent enough these days. I will take almost any UI not called Gnome 3. :D

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Only sad thing is that they won't making DLCs. I would have loved this game getting expanded a little more.

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Does the game still force you to pick a new nation for each and every new era? If yes, it's still a hard pass.

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I got the original C&C DVDs in my basement... but buying the bundle would probably be cheaper and easier! :D

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Didn't expect this, but I like it. I miss the days when Obsidian made non-First Person games.

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Most companies don't treat their employees like crap.

I am fairly confident that you think that because most of us are conditioned to accept being treated like crap by employers to be "normal", so we just won't expect anything better.

That would be counterproductive.

Not really. Paying workers the lowest possible wages while making them work the longest possible hours, under the worst conditions permitted by law is profitable, because the owners get to keep more of your productivity. If somebody quits, they just hire the next person to exploit while they can.

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To be honest, I've seen unions cause more problems than they solve.

While that's not entirely without merit, keep in mind that unions wouldn't be needed if not close to 100% of all companies wouldn't treat their employees like crap.

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the only real solution for that is verified boot with a signature whitelist. that would mean you can only play on popular distros with one of their official kernels but its better than nothing

No. The only working solution would be to design the games to be cheat-resilient in the first place, under the assumption that the client cannot be trusted at any time. This notion that a game developer would somehow be able to wrest control of a PC from its very owner is ridiculous. People who think that ever works don't really understand security.

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That's not true. Wine is the main reason we can actually play Windows games on our system. That's really disrespectful to ignore the almost 32 years of development history. Without Wine, DXVK & Proton are nothing.

While WINE is certainly the basis without we wouldn't have Proton, remember that WINE absolutely stunk at running games before Valve chimed in. The statement is still true - without Valve we wouldn't be able to run the vast majority of Windows games as flawlessly as we can do today.

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Seriously, I don't feel like I'm missing much. Meaning... Missing anything.

Same here. I don't think I will ever play any game made by Epic, as I am just not into shooters. Problem is that Fortnite IS a very popular game, and having it run in Linux would remove one obstacle for people to switch. Keep in mind we're living in a time and age when people largely ignore new games and play popular existing ones for years instead. Fortnite is one of these.

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