Quoting: scaineIt's literally renting vs owning.

No, DRM is about restrictions. I.e. whether you are restricted in your usage after the purchase or not. Steam requires you to use the client to install the game. I.e. they don't sanction backups according to their terms of usage (except for using their own backup method, which again involves their client and etc.).

Whether they enforce it or not is already secondary. DRM-free store should not stop you from legally making backups. And they provide downloadable packages for such use case. DRMed stores quite explicitly avoid that, because they don't want you to back anything up.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's Google though. So does them deciding it's not working out and no longer supporting the whole service even count as an "unforeseen" circumstance?

It can be both, i.e. expected and planned or unexpected and abrupt shutdown of the service. In practice it doesn't matter. Since they don't provide downloads, such purchases aren't backed by anything. And worse part is, such games won't be available from pirate sources to compensate for service shutting down either. So it's a bad investment of money for anyone who cares about games preservation.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI just experienced the bad side of SteamPlay:
Earthfall was working Out of The box, ready for to be whitelisted, but after the last game update, it doesn't work anymore due to some UE4 fatal error.. The game just crash.

That's a common pattern for Wine gaming and it's been like that forever. Game updates break stuff completely. Wine catches up after a while, then things repeat. That's why it's a lot easier to play games in Wine that don't get any updates anymore. Rapidly updated games are a lot more fragile, when developers don't care to test them in Wine themselves.

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Quoting: liamdaweWe're now fake news apparently: https://imgur.com/84jEpYS [External Link]

Doesn't sound very professional to release something, and not even think about OS support in different stores. GOG has Linux support, so it's something to think about before releasing.

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Quoting: GuestThat really makes no sense to me but ok, I’ll try to remember that.

It's quite simple in general. Comments are visible for potential developers. Your purchases from other developers aren't visible - that data is private. So if you want Linux ports, show demand by reaching out to developers directly. The more people do it, the better.

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Quoting: GuestNvidia: releases the driver with the hardware on the same day, even for linux.
AMD: "We are targeting a launch day driver [for Linux] but Windows obviously takes priority"(https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/07/02/will-amd-radeon-rx-5700xt-graphics-cards-support-linux-gaming/#4e6d19043af9 [External Link])

Actually amdgpu / radeonsi were same day. Only amdvlk wasn't, and radv developers pushed theirs like right after release.

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Quoting: jarhead_hThat's what I want in a monitor.

Ah, I misunderstood you, and thought you were wondering why Spectrum has those specs you listed :)

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Quoting: jarhead_hSize: 43in
Resolution: 4K
Panel type: VA, IPS, OLED
Refresh rate: native 120hz
Bezel size: don't care
Curved? NO.
Touch? NO.
Interface: HDMI2.1 or DisplayPort 2.0, or both
Embedded component: I honestly don't know what this is exactly.

That's not what Spectrum is. It's 27", IPS, etc. What's that above? Totally something else.

Personally, I don't care about HDMI. DP is the way to go.

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Quoting: jarhead_hPair with a LG 32-inch QHD (32GK850F-B) for a really solid performer.

Regarding monitors, this new project looks very promising: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpectrumProject/comments/c934zs/crowddeveloped_monitor_project_spectrum_ama/ [External Link]

I was planning to get new LG 27GL850 for adaptive sync purposes, but the above looks more interesting.

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Quoting: EikeLooks like it'll be an AMD CPU for the first time since... Athlon? this year (and an Nvidia GPU)! :)

Anybody got an idea if 8 cores will be way more future-proof than six cores?
Is/will gaming be making use of them?

Modern Vulkan games should spread CPU load according to the number of cores. That also should include dxvk and vkd3d cases, which parallelize various tasks proportionally to the number of total cores. 8 cores is surely better.

And @mirv makes good point above about RAM. Get 3200 MHz RAM or higher with low latency if you want improved performance.

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