Likely almost negligible because most people didn’t care, with the exception of the vocal minority on the internet. Most average people make a new social media account a few times a year and wouldn’t think twice to trivially make another throwaway account just to play their new game.

Name one that is:

1. ready for prime-time use

2. is priced reasonably

3. has features commensurate to this year’s top-tier phone specs?

My logic is that if no one allows direct install of apps, I might as well move to a more secure walled garden than the dogshit security posture Android has.

If android blocks direct-installing “sideloading”, I will move to Apple and never look the fuck back. This is pure greed and hubris that Google thinks they have the market cornered. They all can go cuck themselves.

Thanks kid, your comment really breaks my heart /s

I would rather have AI write this shit than read misspelled ramblings with bad grammar. This article is complete trash to read

I was rhetorically speaking, so if you feel targeted, it’s you projecting some sort of guilt, home slice.

All it would take is for GabeN to die and a corporate takeover for Valve to change their tune. They are a corporation pursuing profit, not some fucking benevolent NGO, so stop idolizing them.

Both of those heavily rely on Wine and especially Proton, which is funded by significant donations from Valve software, so you are arguing a trivial cost versus a subsidized cost.

Technically the OS isn’t free: Valve pays a team of developers to maintain the SteamOS and also donates money to Arch and Ubuntu foundations as well as to the Proton and Wine dev teams as well as contributes code to the linux kernel. All costing them money, that they eat but could easily find a way to charge the end user

What games were taken down? Are they preserved somewhere? Anybody know?

It feels like they tried to make a PG/kids version of Red Dead Redemption with aliens, poorly written characters and a glitch-infested game engine as cheap as legally possible without being called slave labor.