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There’s like dozens of ways to open a lock without the proper key, it’s probably not the best comparison…

Pretty much every platform is both, except linux maybe.

Plus game is free so it’s not like they’re actively getting money from me

They might not be getting money from you, but they’re getting a lot of other things like harvesting your data, advertising (like this thread)… Always remember that free to play is a business model, not a charity.

It speaks to your willingness and eagerness to tinker with your systems, that’s pretty much arch’s core audience.

If you like to mod games you’ll probably want arch linux as it’s heavily modular - you choose everything. You can use the archinstall script to get you setup or follow the installation guide.

It’s not, physical sales have been dwindling in general, although part of the reason for that is the push towards digital.

The solution here has never been to keep producing disks, what we need is proper digital ownership laws that let you resell game keys and force stores like steam to disentangle them from your account.

It’s not particularly difficult to read, there’s just a lot of stuff to keep track of - if you care enough to anyways. Oh and you should probably avoid Malazan if you are squeamish.

It doesn’t always work though, if it’s linux itself crashing you’re out of luck.

Do you really own your game if it can be unilaterally taken away from you ? Copyright law is fucked and the software industry is happy with the status quo - no owning a license that’s behind dozens of pages of TOS is not owning a game.

Nobody’s giving you a perpetual license to anything, even GOG, any license you’re “buying” can be revoked at any time for whatever reason they want.

I never mentioned publishers, in fact indies do not even have publishers. Can you stop with this whataboutism ?

30% is industry standard

It was an industry standard, that’s been changing for a while, just take a look at how much fire google and apple are taking over their stores.

but valve are good and kind and shit rainbows so they deserve money

Valve is a corporation, it might be less bad than the rest, but at the end of the day gabe is still sifting mai thais on his 500 million dollars yacht.

95% of the players on pc are on steam, if you don’t publish your game there you’re just shooting yourself in the foot - this has very little to do with the quality of the service valve provides and everything to do about their monopoly on the market. Would devs like to pay a smaller cut to valve? Sure, but it’s just the cost of doing business, you go where your customers are.

It’s hard getting recognized on steam too.

Does steam provide a good service? Sure. Is it worth the 30% cut they take? Absolutely not. Gamers don’t realize the amount of money valve is making off them. What we need is a good old fashioned bill at every purchase detailing how much money these rent seeking stores are extracting from you.

I don’t want the 90 services and bloated platform steam offers, I want to play my game and pay the developers.

the heel of the show

i’m not familiar with that idiom. if you don’t realize you’ve been getting an increasingly shallower version of the same character you’ve not been paying attention, it usually happens naturally in tv shows (flanderization) - like how homelander is suddenly asexual and breast milk obsessed. but yes the writers are pulling in every stop to make sure you hate the character because they understandably don’t want people to root for the main villain which for some reason is trump 2.0, as if we needed yet another portrayal of that. the amount of shows that don’t degrade after season 1 is incredibly low unfortunately.

Yeah the writers didn’t like how part of the audience sided with homelander in the first couple of seasons, so they did what writers do and took a hammer to the character.

It’s unlikely that whatever issue you’re having with your games is because of the desktop environment.

The blockers are in Gnome’s design guidelines

And yet most gnome apps use context menus… They’re just not a priority given that any functionality in a context menu needs to be duplicated elsewhere so that people can find it. This isn’t just a gnome thing btw, it’s the way UI everywhere is going: Hamburger menus all the way down.

bottles

I like it, i use lutris though because i don’t care for the sandboxing.