It's the right call. Unfortunately, in this case, there was no unpolitical decision available. It's a shame that they blew so much money on making a product they in all likelihood will never be able to sell before it is horribly outdated. The time it will take for Russia to be an accepted member of the international community again will be measured in decades, not years...

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Quoting: senpaigamer123

"I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.

I guess it's time to delete my account... :grin:

Won't help you. He wants to authenticate all HUMANS, not all Twitter users. :P

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I don't do social media, but any single individual controlling any large media is always concerning.

Then again, that's true for most mainstream media not called BBC. "Free speech" usually translates to the opinion of whoever owns it.

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Offices are still a thing? :P

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Quoting: BoldosWould be curious to see the numbers of how many will actually use it...

I'd really be curious how many people bother putting work in to replace a working OS with another, which is always one of the strongest points being made against Linux on the desktop: "Why replace a working Windows?". Now it's "Why replace a working Linux?".

I'd also be curious to see the reaction of people who go "Gah, Linux is SOOOO hard to install", when they have to install Windows from scratch for the first time in their life! :D

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceClosing down servers when they feel like it. One more reason to support FOSS gaming.

You mean the entire handful of FOSS games that are somewhat on par with commercial games?

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I said it in the thread about Fortnite, and I will say the same thing here: Developers assuming that the operating system is NOT under the full control of its user and that they can somehow control their system from the outside have no clue about good security practices. No wonder that their stuff gets hacked all the time, because that approach doesn't even work on closed-source systems.

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Not surprised. Porting has been going downhill for years now, after Steam Machines turned out to be a bust and larger studios no longer bought in to the idea. We have seen fewer and fewer native ports of games that weren't made by Indie studios.
I know, some people are still clinging to the "No Tux, No Bux" mantra, but in reality, we're unlikely to see another major AAA game on Linux native anytime soon. If the Deck becomes a major hit, maybe this will change again, who knows. In the meantime, Proton is what we've got, and it does the job just fine. Instead of a handful of AAA titles that got selected to be ported, we get to play almost all of them. I don't care what makes a game run on Linux as long as it runs on Linux.

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Quoting: eldakingI don't much like additional platforms as stretch goals because if you use (only) that platform, backing before the goal is hit is a big risk and for most people already backing they don't particularly care. I mean, I'm happy when a platform I like is funded and included, but doesn't seem like the most effective stretch goal for crowdfunding.

If I remember correctly. KS allowed you to delete a pledge up and until the deadline. You can always cancel your pledge if it doesn't appear that the Linux stretch goal will be reached a day before the end of the campaign. That's not the nicest thing to do, but neither is putting platform support behind a stretch goal, so your moral mileage may vary.

Personally, making platform support a stretch goal typically puts me off the project entirely. I then adapt a "Ok, you Windows users can fund the thing and take all the risks. And if it releases and turns out to be on Linux and good enough, I can still buy it" stance.

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Quoting: BeamboomIs it just me, or do most kickstarter projects with a promised Linux version end up like this? I feel it's happened over and over and over now...

It happens way too often, that's for sure. Reasons seem to be the same in most cases, too. Devs that never touched an OS other than Windows thinking that they can develop a game on Windows for Windows using Windows middle-ware and Windows tools, and then press the magic "Export to Linux" button in their engine of choice when all is said and done, to make their Windows game run on Linux.

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