The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.

FAFO. If you don’t want to control your computer then you wont have control over your computer.

You know what doesn’t have onedrive? Every other OS.

They come with W11 but I wouldn’t say users are forced to use it. My first boot is always into the Debian netinstaller.

The TPM2 requirement is purely to drum up sales for hardware vendors and ensure that they keep bundling Windows with their machines.

Making shareholders happy by increasing profits and padding the CEO’s ego Theft and corruption certainly is.

And the whole thing where they are trying to dial back rights for everyone but rich white men.

I have a single W10 machine left and that’s only for VR, everything else is Debian and I couldn’t be happier. It only does what I tell it to, updates never break stuff, the Debian repository has literally everything I need.

The 20min a week I spend on W11 PCs at work has only cemented in my mind how much I do not want to deal with that shit.

I have an android phone and hate every second of it. Next time I get a new phone it’s getting GraphineOS on day one.

So much for my Steam Machine plans.

Welp, enjoy your rootkits and privacy violations.

Daily Debian since 2015, zero regrets.

Looks fun but Windows only is a dealbreaker.

No on hates their own fans more than Nintendo. Pirate everything they sell.

Wait, this ISN’T an Onion article?

Why the hell would Plex get you banned?

Gatekeeping, pixel peeping, number wank. Play on hardware you can afford, don’t let some guy with affiliate links tell you that you are gaming wrong.

If the game is genuinely fun, no, it’s all wank. I still use an HDD and the load times are long but not long enough to justify buying more stuff.

Oh no, anyway.

Data collection subsidized ewaste machines.

I doubt the quality of your work.

FATALITY!

A decade ago you tried Linux and it was hard, try again or butt out. Windows has become even more of a privacy violating, data snorting, market manipulating whore in that time and it will not stop.

I’ll bet they roll out subscription based drivers before you make a legitimate atempt.

Is it all in your browser, because pretty much everything is a web app now.

sometiems you do see stuff you didn’t want to without seeking it out

I certainly didn’t want to see you on the internet today but I’m not calling to cancel Lemmy.

The reason I know about incest games existing on steam is because it showed up on my recommendations or something once, without me actively seeking it out.

Only if you clicked the little checkbox to enable sexually explicit games to be recommended.

I guess just don’t see how they’d think “ok we got rid of the rape and incest, now let’s go Nazi on everything else”

It doesn’t have to be full Nazi, a right wing CEO could decide that all trans content is immoral and should not be sold. This wingnut Australian group already has their sights set on non-hetero games.

so why should people have to see that on their computers in the first place?

You don’t have to see anything online, (unless you are on a mind rotting infinite scroll). When you want to see something or play a game you have to actively seek it out.

This issue is that once there is a precedent set for payment processors manipulating markets they wont stop. Just like the zombies on tiktok that say “un-alive” because they thin the word “died” will have them kicked off the internet, publishers and developers will get nervous that their game may not sit well with a payment processor for some reason like religion, racial heritage, or opinions on sexual orientation and gender, and they will be unable to sell their game.

This content occurs in the Bible, should it also be banned from sale?

Yes.

Crypto was supposed to do this but it’s too fractured and volatile now.

Fuuuuuck Nintendo. No one hates their fans more than Nintendo.

They are bricking brand new consoles, locking their USB ports to approved hardware, charging for the tech demo that would customarily be free on an $800 device. And that’s just this year.

Test it out on an old PC, you gotta have one hanging around the house. After a couple of weeks you’ll wonder how you got anything done without it.

And so you spend hours tweaking the UI only to have it nuked by an update. If you’re gonna rice your desktop, run Linux!

I read a long time ago that delays had to be added to desktop UIs because users didn’t think the computer was “working” if it responded in a single video frame. Maybe the M$ LLM read that too and took it to heart.

Still running a 1080, between nvidia and windows 11 I think I’ll stay where I am.

Switched on my daily driver around 2016 and have been doing all but VR gaming on Linux since about 2019. I would totally recommend it to any one as long as they aren’t a tripple a, release day kinda gamer.

Yup, I have a 500gb HDD for Steam Games, loading screens are a few seconds longer than you would expect but that just makes time for a beer break.

Valve devs said “we are not working on, and have no plans to re-start work on Half-Life 3” in the recently released HL2 audio commentary. How much clearer to they have to be?

also, go play HL2 with the commentary on, it was awesome and worth the re-visit

My 1080 from 2017 has 8gb of vram. Still works fine.

3.3k over 19 years isn’t too bad considering I bought an Index and Deck :/ If anything I need more games!

Why? 4k is already at the limit of what your eyes can resolve unless you have an enormous screen.

Virtual Box is probably the easiest to get started but lately I have been using LXC containers because they are a very similar to VMs but with less overhead.

No idea where you are in your trek, but if you can find the time learn how to use virtual machines (or use an old laptop) so you can test stuff without fear of breaking a machine you rely on.

When I want to use a new package or make a change to my setup I will do it in a virtual machine as many times as it takes until I get it right, then use my notes to do it on my daily driver. I went from a Windows only user to daily driving Linux in about a year thanks to keeping good notes.

Windows still hasn’t decided what it’s configuration windows should look like, there are still dialogs with the 30 year old W95 design language. I doubt that they were able to put together a seamless gaming UI over that past x months or years.