Yeah I mean clickbait titles gonna clickbait. Linux is great and steamos / proton are amazing. It’s incredible how well they do perform, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves lol.

Flip side, we are comparing a free and superior OS to windows, so I guess if you add up all the other things (assuming you like Linux) this is truly a RIP windows moment, but it depends on the audience. I.e. I’m happy to trade a few FPS to be free of Windows, but not necessarily all the AAA games, yet.

100%. At that point the data center is just stealing from everyone else.

Every one is just subsidizing the data center with their electrical, water, etc… Bill.

Love my pebble, and it isn’t a data sucking privacy nightmare. It’s simple and not addicting.

Today,

Right. Nice to find someone here who actually understands some of the problems that make kernel level anticheat important. In modern FPS, server authoiritative everything is just not feasible. No gamer is going to accept the latency that would cause. Or when you look and suddenly you momentarily desynced and now your camera jerks back because the sever decided you tried to look around too quickly? People are so willfully ignorant about this topic.

maybe we could get away from needing it as badly if valve would provide a strong attestation that the kernel running is unmodified with a secure tpm solution, but they haven’t, so here we are.