Pretty much all of the big live service games demand kernel access for their anticheat, which typically isn’t allowed on Linux, so those games simply won’t work.

Thank you for providing us an object example lol

You think Linux is going to be a better experience? What do you think someone will think the user will think when they encounter a program or game that simply refuses to run on Linux?

You’re too deep in the sauce, man. I have to reiterate that the average gamer is both horribly stupid and extremely lazy. You gotta keep that in mind. People smart enough and dedicated enough to go through the hurdles associated with gaming on a PC are likely already using one as their primary or sole platform.

Seems like there’s no horror block this year, which is pretty disappointing. Horror games appear to be spread out throughout the event rather than concentrated in a single block. Maybe there weren’t enough runners that could attend?

I guess I’d have to check my habits but I bet 300 searches would easily last me a month. Half of my “searches” are me just going to look up the thing on Wikipedia anyhow. If you’re using web search professionally though, I can see 300 barely lasting a couple days.

I’m not sure how to feel about an AI heavy service talking about privacy. They feel mutually exclusive to me.

It’s certainly a ways away but Gaben won’t live forever. I’m assuming there’s a clear succession plan in place and hopefully that everyone lined up are on roughly the same wavelength but… well, there’re no guarantees.

Sorry, no. My video drivers fucked up while installing somehow and I had to blow them out with DDU and reinstall everything to get normal functioning back on my PC. I’ve had countless random errors, performance hangs, and more due to just random stupid Windows 11 shit that had to be identified and solved by repeated web searches and in a few cases obtaining and running specialized tools to cleanse my system of the filth W11 is full of.

NONE of this is part of the usual console experience. Exceptions exist, yes. And technical support when they occur is dramatically simpler because they’re all the same.

I think you’re forgetting just how fucking stupid the average person is, and how lazy they are. We’re in the era of cognitive surrender to chatGPT. You think these drooling morons want to web search how to fix a driver installation somehow getting corrupted?

Because a console will still be plug in and play.

“Gamers push back.” Just like they pushed back against $70 and $80 games by lining up around the block to buy a Switch 2 so they could buy $70 and $80 games to play on it. Like Rockstar will make a mint selling $100 copies of GTA6.

I think it was a CoD that big but it might have been some other AAA perennial. Either way, 4K textures are huge when unoptimized and in the era of gigabit internet and digital distribution, devs don’t feel much pressure to optimize.

Sony ain’t gonna lose shit. Exclusives will ensure people buy their shit.

Good thing she’s such a cutie!

This is also 3+ years old. 2023 isn’t 2026.

And CoD is 250GB or something.

Is it possible to use VPNs to fool it? I feel like someone has probably solved this issue.

Steam Deck is a terrible deal at its current price. Several hundred dollars for a zen2 system? Are you insane?

Is the Switch 2 unable to use standard microSD cards? They make you buy some proprietary card?

Switch 2 is great if you already have a lot of Nintendo games.

It, like all consoles, is terrible if you don’t. It’s probably the best option for handheld gaming if an Android-based device isn’t sufficient, however.

It’ll also depend on how much you care about their exclusives. If you just gotta have Zelda, you don’t have a choice. I don’t care about Zelda, though, so I haven’t owned anything from Nintendo since the GameCube.

FO4 is kind of bland by itself but it does have a lot of great mods. Horizon’s my favorite simply because it’s kind of designed to be a self-contained experience (even including texture and lighting mods by the same creator!) so it’s very much a quick and easy process.

In what way? Most every planet has every important resource and PoI.