Does anyone know what the hell they are including to make it that big? Even with several proton-versions preinstalled it shouldn't get up to 10GB, let alone 24.
Or are they maybe going in the silverblue-direction and include a bunch of redundant libraries?

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Quoting: hardpenguinWhile I understand the point of the concerns over intrusive anti-cheat solution, the problem stands. I would rather play one of the most popular video games in the world on Linux thanks to Proton than to use Windows.

The point is more that it s a scary shame that most users, even on windows, wouldn't care about kernel-level malware as a requirement to play that game. No matter the OS, that should be a red flag for any sane user...

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I wish they would improve wheel-support (especially FF) and VR ^^

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Quoting: toorTheir bundles keep getting shittier and shittier. The time of humblebundle has gone. It's Steam time!

Yeah it's been a while that it was a real "wow". But at least this months choice is better than the last few (although i'm still skipping i think). Hopefully this trend continues ^^

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Very good bundle - if i didn't have everything but main assembly already xD

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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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