32 - he/they - Alberta, Canada - Just a random retro gaming enthusiast, Linux user, and furry on the autism spectrum.
Proton’s a little more recent than that. I still remember the bad old days of Steam on Linux from 2013-2017 where Proton didn’t exist yet, and running the Windows version of Steam through WINE was a PITA. Heck, Proton didn’t really start to get good until about 2021.
Most indie games work fine on Linux, thanks to Proton. MacOS is just an exceptionally poor platform for gaming.
Consoles are the rich man’s platform these days. If you have a bit of technical know-how, it’s not hard to find a cheap old PC and get some games running on it.
GNOME Disks is awesome. It’s the one GNOME app I use regularly, and it amazes me just how good it is given who develops it.
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Limited Run
I’ll pass.
I would possibly upvote this if it were just a GNOME customization guide, and if it didn’t try to insist that “GNOME is good, actually.”
TIL at least one German computer magazine still ships cover discs.
Irresponsible Hate Anthem, although I think he was specifically implying that everyone is something someone else hates.
Could be, key word “could.” I’ll believe it when I see it.
“Unfortunately we’re ALL “someone else” to someone else.”
So true.
Title is clickbait. All that’s been confirmed so far is FRL.
That applies to PC gaming in general, really. PC games haven’t had useful physical editions in about 20 years. Once Half-Life 2 started mandating online activation through Steam, all bets were off.
It goes even further back than this when you factor in CD keys. Big-name titles started requiring keys as far back as the late 90s, and some games even required them before this. Contrast this with console games, where 99% of loose copies were playable prior to 8th gen.
Not just Core Isolation (aka Memory Protection), Driver Signature Enforcement as well.
Not cracked, bypassed . That’s an important distinction.
The hypervisor bypass only works if you’re on Windows, and it opens up a huge security hole when you use it.
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I haven’t watched the video, but my lukewarm take is that duopolies suck and having only two real players in the x86 CPU market has never been good. I was happy when Intel re-entered the discrete GPU market a few years ago (I say re-entered because they had the i740 cards in the 90s) because it meant we finally had a real competitor to Nvidia and AMD in that market.
I know ARM is supposed to be the CPU architecture of the future, but man, I wish we had a modern day equivalent to Cyrix or something in the x86 space. More competition is good.
The radeon driver wasn’t proprietary, just old and superseded by AMDGPU. AMD’s old proprietary driver was fglrx.
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Old Slashdot term.
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