Quoting: TheSHEEEPThat's a profit margin of 10%. Ten percent. That's not "a bit extra" that I wrote above.

That's not what valve gets though - through key-sales on other platforms (for which valve still covers the infrastructure-cost without seeing a cent of the revenue!) and lowered % at bigger sale numbers it's likely more towards the 20% overall.

And the other thing is: it's not only infrastructure that has to be covered, but also the development of the offered tools an services.

With all rightful critique to valve/steam, but one simply has to admit, that the services and user experience offered by steam is way ahead of any of the other stores - which is probably the (or at least a big) reason why both users and developers tend to prefer steam over other offerings. And as "value" is always subjective, that fact speaks against the "overpriced" argument.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPSuch a profit margin is unheard of in most fields on this planet.

Ask basically all "premium" car manufacturers, many OEMs, Apple, furniture brands and so on - if you step outside of highly competetive and price sensitive areas like sustenance or low-cost/noname brands, 10% profit margin is all but "unheard of"...

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For a graphical package manager frontend, that makes perfect sense as those are targeted towards to less experienced users. As long as there still is a way to decide to remove those packages in CLI, i'm fine with it tbh. i don't like that the option is removed in APT, but i think it's now a flag that has to be passed on invokation? Given that you should rarely need that, thats kind of still ok, albeit too much idiot-proofing in an area where idiots should not be doing stuff ^^

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With the steaming pile of garbage they released, i really hope take two will go down hard and painful and blow as much money in the process as possible.
Good luck to the teams behind re3 and reVC - it should be obvious how that has to play out, but unfortunately, judges/laws/courts and common sense are not always the best of friends :/

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Quoting: PalancaValve is doing since last year a poor job on Linux and virtual reality.

I have the very same impression sadly. I really hope that's just because they are caught up with the Deck and it will get better again when that is released and settled down.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, so they got AMD, which gets them Steam Deck. We'll see how much urgency there will be to get NVidia going.

Fwiw, Valve does have the luxury of fixing any potential driver issue with AMD ( Mesa )

With Nvidia, driver issues can only be addressed by Nvidia so i don't think Valve can improve that for them. After all game works with vkd3d-proton.

This - and i really hope they don't start to implement whacky extra-code-paths for proprietary driver shenanigans or something like that...

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Too be quite frank, since plasma matured there is little to no reason for choosing almost any other DE.
Plasma is fast as hell while being fully customizable and having more than enough eye candy, you can mimik the behaviour of almost any other DE while being either more performant or more feature-rich. Plus, the KDE-Apps are among the very best in most cases imho.
So i tend to agree with Nate ^^
Given, i'm not saying the other DEs don't deserve to exist, it's always nice if someone has passion for something and thus can bring out new great ideas! But from a standpoint of choosing a "default-DE", KDE probably is the best bet for vendor-customization while keeping compatibility.

And with new funding from Valve, it can only get even better :D

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could that pipewire-dmabuf also help for streaming? (which still doesn't work for linux-hosts the last time i tried)

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Quoting: JuliusArgg... And I just bought Project Wingman on a regular sale.

Still this looks like a good selection after some months of less interesting ones (which I paused).

Still not impressed. For me this was my sixth pause in a row. At this rate, it's going to take years to get through my available months.

Yeah, i'm with you on that. I've only got one month left before the next billing and i'm really not sure if i'll keep my classic sub if this trend continues...

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Quoting: ShabbyXI'm glad they realized they lost this war, and now the poor people that trust microsoft have a working browser. If only they'd realize the same with NT and switch windows's kernel to Linux

They didn't make edge chromium based because they thought chromium was better. They were "forced" to because google was changing how youtube displays videos, which broke hardware decoding. Microsoft developers were even suspecting that google was doing it intentionally to make other browsers perform worse than chromium.

And that is EXACTLY why nobody in their right minds should use ANY chromium-based browser nowadays...

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Quoting: Sojiro84and has tab groups like Chrome, those are so good to have.

The "Simple Tab Groups" addon for Firefox is 100 times better. I don't know how I can live without this addon.

I prefer "Panorama Tab Groups" - it's a delight that this removed feature got such a great revival! ^^

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My yearly donations to all the projects are currently a bit on hold, but as soon as the new job is sorted out that will be made up and GoL sure is on the permanent list (together with KDE and mozilla ^^)

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