Oh god, it's really good! Send help!

Although I did find that my PS5 controller was unplayably janky, so I switched to kbd/mouse. The interface isn't perfect, but the gameplay is lovely and the whole game is so smooth and pretty. Really enjoying it!

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Good grief, you didn't just do the classic troll of "people who disagree with me aren't intelligent" did you?

Yes you did. Goddam.

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Quoting: GuestSo my reasoning cannot be contradicted.

At this point, after multiple readers have contradicted (often with evidence) nearly every sentence you've written on this subject, I'm not sure if you're stubborn or delusional. I'm gobsmacked you're still going though.

You genuinely don't recognise a lost cause? You've certainly killed any desire I had to try FreeBSD, that's for sure.

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Quoting: GuestThose links support my position

And other links don't. But you're still trying to tear people down.

Quoting: GuestIn the past, FreeBSD users have questioned these benchmarks

It sounds like you question literally anything that attacks your beliefs. This is pretty common - we all do it. It's just that, in this thread, you're doing it over and over without seemingly any self-awareness.

I mean, you're quoting benchmarking articles [External Link] from over 10 years ago to demonstrate that FreeBSD is... 8% faster?

At least you're finally trying to make a positive case though. It's just not a very strong case.

I hope FreeBSD continues to do well. But you're barking up the wrong tree here by making these arguments on a LINUX gaming site.

When I switched to Linux in 2005, then fully ditched Windows in 2013, I was aware of the sacrifices I was making to embrace a tiny niche in the technology world. I don't have any interest in jumping ship to an even more niche part of that world. I'm glad it exists. I just want no part of it. Yet. Maybe in 20 years, when Linux is sporting a cool 20% market share and FreeBSD is the new 1%, that's when I'll start thinking, "maybe this FreeBSD could be fun".

But I doubt it. Good luck to you.

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Quoting: CyrilGuys, I'm really impressed how every time GOG comes to the topic you're saying the same thing over and over.
I think the record is scratched. :wink:

But but but... this is *important*!!!

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Quoting: sudoerstuff

I'm not sure what the hell you're saying here about Flatpaks and Snaps being bad, but I get your point about cloud gaming, I suppose.

But from the enterprise perspective (I've been in tech for nearly 30 years and a geek for coming up five decades) that stuff is so cyclic. Back in the 70's and 80's everything was a terminal for big server clusters. Then we all went big desktops in the 90's. Then in the early 2000's, it was all Citrix and VMware Horizon on big clusters again. For the past ten to fifteen years, the focus has been PC's again, and now recently all this cloud gaming stuff has come along. Back and forth. Over and over.

I suppose it's a bit worse generally now in terms of "owning" stuff - music is on Spotify, films are on Netflix, and now we have games on Stadia or GFN. There's subscriptions for EA, or Xbox. Hell, you can even get a Kindle sub for "free" books these days.

But none of that stops you owning things if you want to. I have friends who still buy CDs to burn to FLAC and buy Blurays and DVDs to watch. People still buy books - actual books.

It's a stretch (and super insulting) to be calling people brainwashed or lazy just because, unlike you it seems, they actually enjoy using their PCs however they want.

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So, I've said this before - it infuriates me that such a tiny niche community as Linux will find ways to shit all over other portions of the same niche community.

As a general reminder, distro-wars are not tolerated on GOL. Read the rules, which are linked just slightly above every comment box you type into.

Please stop with the thinly veiled contempt for other people's choices and experiences - define your distro by the things you love about it, and sing about those things to the world. Stop, stop, stop tearing down others.

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The kind of game I might play with two or three close friends, but would never, ever play with randos online.

It's great to see so many otherwise disinterested game devs making an effort to be SteamDeck (or even just Proton) compatible. I wonder when I'll feel comfortable just buying such a title, instead of waiting for 80% sales. I'm coming round a bit more, I think, but I still sport a huge internal bias towards native releases. Maybe when I own a SteamDeck, that'll tip me over the edge!

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Quoting: GuestFurthermore, snap and flatpak are also a serious security risk

What?

Sure, the Snap/Lemmings vulnerability is an exceptional (and hard to implement, and local only) priv escalation, but I'm curious how you're arguing that container solutions for packaging are a "serious security risk".

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Quoting: wolfyrionOnce you go with Arch you never go back.... :P

I am using EndeavourOS which is kinda Arch with easy installation...

Is just everything works...
I am even on testing repos on Arch with KDE Unstable , very few issues which most issues are solved within a day.

Well, the article says Arch, but I think it was EndeavourOS that Liam was on before he hopped on to Fedora. Indeed, it was his article about it that convinced me to make the same leap. I've been on Endeavour for about 2 or 3 months now. It's great - really enjoy it, and no breakages, whatsoever.

My only gripe is that LUKS takes about 40 seconds to boot - for some reason they decided to put LUKS on the /boot partition as well as the rest of the system, and then combined that with loads of encryption iterations. I guess it's secure, but goddam, it's ridiculous overkill.

A minor gripe though. The system itself is really just Arch and has all the advantages and disadvantages you'd expect from that.

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