Bend over, boyos. This time it is Psyonix who are busy teaching the world another very effective lesson in trusting proprietary software: If the source isn't free you are going to get screwed. It is not a matter of if, but when.

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Still only x86 CPU options. Admittedly useless from a statistical perspective but I just want to fly my flags.

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Having reflected on the issue a bit more, I would like to follow up my earlier comment. Windows (and other proprietary OSes) have one thing which Gnu Linux does not: inertia. It is not an economics or marketing issue so much as it is a social issue. The public simply is not taught general purpose computing.
I suspect that one of the only ways we can begin to tackle this would be by ending "educational partnerships" in which schools teach dependency on proprietary software as a natural way to use computers.

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Quoting: Liam DaweMarketing and more vendors having Linux installed on their systems. Currently, the Linux desktop has very little good marketing.

Being largely non-commercial, Linux desktop will unlikely ever have that kind of marketing. And I do not see that as a bad thing. The nature of it enforces a soft requirement that users have the wherewithal to be able to install and maintain their own systems. It keeps the Linux space filled with a healthy proportion of above-average-computer-literacy individuals.

I would love to see PC gamers adopt free operating systems as the "default" platform as much as anybody else here, but only if that does not mean doing so at the expense of quality of it's users.

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Quoting: mylkasweeny should give them the epic store source code, so they can make a linux version of it within lutris

If only there were some way to ensure people other than the author can have access to a program's source...

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Another Freudian trick extinguished, which make developers focus more on building a treadmill than on making an actual game. I think I can hear the world's smallest violin.

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I'm really liking the art direction on this.

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I will derive great joy from watching how this unfolds from a safe distance.

How will the monkeys react when their masters dump a round of streaming bananas into the roof of their cage?

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Quoting: razing32A bit of context please ?

You cannot use your current GPU without loading a proprietary blob firmware which uses encryption to make sure that the GPU ultimately obeys somebody else that isn't you. Part of this (mis)functionality is required for other "protection" schemes such as HDCP. Who would pressure for such (mis)functionality to be integrated into hardware and firmware?

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