Quoting: PublicNuisanceIf you give money to a company to play game that uses scumbag DRM don't be surprised when that scumbag DRM screws you over. Don't worry they're having fun spending your money.

Or just hoarding it for the sake of hoarding it, which is what most of them do with most of the money.

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Quoting: elmapulyou need an comparision point... eg: test it on windows too.
i saw a lot of reports on protonDB from people who never played an particular game saying it run flawless on linux, then you open the game and... where are the cutscenes? where is the video behind the title screen?

If they didn’t notice something is wrong, then Proton did its job nicely

Lol, until the players review bomb the devs because the story "was too confusing" and the ending was "abrupt". J/K.

While I say it in jest, I do remember seeing a post a long time ago where a Linux user "discovered" the opening cutscenes for Witcher 3, having never known it was missing.

Had this issue with Journey to the Savage Planet. The video messages didn’t play. At first I was like “well, that was strange. Well, maybe it’s a joke, that they [the space company] said they’d send you updates and stuff, but then didn’t because it cost them money and/or their tech was made so cheap that shit broke” until I did a bit of OCD research and, yep, video was broken in proton 😄

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Fortnite won't come to the Steam Deck because it is the Steam Deck, not because of "issues" with EAC. I think it's that simple.

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Quoting: chelobakaAre there any similar apps made with Qt? This modern GTK interface looks completely alien in KDE and I find it very inconvenient as well.

Indeed. I love Lutris, and the work they do, but that Gnome/GTK-style UI feels both cumbersome and a hassle to use.

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Quoting: GuestIt's intended for sensitive data (normally crypto related) for the usual purposes (e.g signed software validation and authentication). It's aimed at Windows more than anything else, but pretty sure something similar is already on AMD powered consoles.

Good/bad really - good for locking down and preventing unauthorised software changes, bad for the same reasons.

Suspected as much. I would hazard a guess at MS getting to put their chip in as part of a deal for putting more AMD in their Surface gizmos.

To state the obvious, I’m very not interested in having a Microsoft anything in my hardware. It smells of stinkowiff.

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What does the integration of a Microsoft “security” chip in the APU entail, and how is that a “good” thing? (Not saying anyone here thinks it is, but apparently AMD must think it is.)

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Quoting: TheRiddickReally what I want to see is fractional scaling options instead of the automatic 2xUI thing. %125, 133, 150 specifically!

This. Is either tiiiiiny or HUGE if running a high-res display. Same problem with Spotify and some GTK apps.

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Quoting: GuestYou're not cynical, you're realistic. All of this trouble with GPUs is behind me constantly pushing back any kind of remote idea of getting an upgraded system. I'm starting to wonder when it will impact the games - they'll realise nobody has the kind of system that can run what they want and will have to adjust requirements accordingly. Or just push it out on a streaming service and leave desktop systems out of it entirely.

I’m in the same boat. Been looking to upgrade for a few years now, but the way they’ve been almost constantly announcing and releasing new cards, only to have them either not be available anywhere, costing a fortune, or only available from scalpers, I’ve decided to wait, again and again.

I’m not buying a card at these price, and when you’ve waited long enough for the price to come down to almost reasonable levels, a new card is announced. So I’m still here with my RX480.

And then there the shoddy QC and skimping on component quality by the manufacturers, since the five cards they produce will be torn out of the shelves by scalpers anyway.

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Quoting: ShmerlGiven Phil Spencer is probably the reason MS didn't back Vulkan but pushed DX12 lock-in instead, it's interesting that he has some positive comments about Steam Deck which relies on breaking that very lock-in.

Or in getting people to install Windows on it. Preferably the super locked-down Windows S.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMint with Mate is IMO good, and very familiar to a classic Windows user, right out of the box.

Look for example at OSX - it is completely different from Windows, but quite a bit of pros (for example musicians, graphic designers etc) use it as it offers them a better experience.

OK, look at it. So, first of all, every time I try to use OS X it drives me nuts. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to find a damn file, for instance. Lots of people like it, I'm sure it is excellent in its way, but the idea that it's just inherently intuitive and stuff is a triumph of marketing and socialization over real lived experience.
Second, there are two main reasons musicians, graphic designers etc. use OS X. The first is that it has an excellent software ecosystem for that kind of people. The second is the excellent and very expensive marketing that have successfully drummed it into the heads of artistically inclined people that they are not cool if they don't use Macs.
The actual user interface is a marginal factor.

The Mac has an edge if you use a laptop as a laptop. The way they have built the UI and navigation around gestures, and have a trackpad that is super comfy instead of stuck in 2008 like Lenovo etc, is lightyears ahead of Linux and Windows. But the moment you want to use it as a desktop (i.e. with a mouse and doing "productivity") it's a cumbersome shitshow that needs "extensions" and other hacks to get it to be even remotely effective to work with. After having used first Windows, then going OSX + Linux, then full Linux, and now ocasionally using OSX (laptop) while majority Linux (desktop + laptop), the gestures is the only thing OSX really does well IMO. The rest of the UI/UX isn't really that great.

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