Thare was no problem with GoG: they saw an issue, the issue was fixed.

Zune, Metro, Copilot+

If you know, you know.

The core of the article is in the first paragraph:

It’s been eight years since AMD launched its first-gen Ryzen processors and it’s incredible how far we’ve come. But while AMD might be the king of gaming CPUs now, you shouldn’t dismiss Intel just yet.

So, yeah, AMD is clearly the king, but you may find good deal for some store having an unsold Intel inventory stock too high. Also with AMD raising the price of the GPUs should remind us to not let companies overconfident over their customers.

Tho…you can find AMD Ryzen 5 5500 also below the “100 bucks” quota.

If Linux adoption was something of a single season, some sort of growth Linux community had in the “early 2020” your argument would be valid: you had a steady growth on Linux’s own name:

if in the 2020 Linux were 2 and..
in 2025 were were 20 = you had a 900% growth

but this is not what is happening, Linux isn’t growing on its own number, but on the number of the global PC gaming growth. New desktop/gaming PC are sold by default with Windows: it mean people don’t “choose” Windows, they simply come with the stuff they bought. Windows 11 “growth” is mostly like that: it’s not about a growth of users that willingly are choosing Windows. The very slow pace of decline of Windows 10 tell also that people is unwilling to buy into Microsoft experience… even if they are basically forced to: they also cannot chose Windows 10.

On the other side, every newcomers Linux userbase is an active and willing-fully choice: the fact that “new Windows 11” (aka: default new PC) is not restricting the Linux userbase which, on the contrary, is keeping up with the pace (no, it’s not “thanks” to steam deck also: the SD’s gpu stopped it’s growth as you can see in the Steam HW survey). These are the key elements:

-- PC gaming is growing,
-- PC prebuilt market is slowing down (thanks to the ugly Windows 11)
-- Windows 10 decline very slow (looks like used market and DIY rigs still attract the old "not ugly/AI" Windows 11)
-- Linux is keeping the pace even tho the "pushing" of SteamDeck came to end.

There’s a thin red line that tie both Putin’s oligarchs and Trump’s oligarchs: “wokeness” is a concept fabricated by the latter but is completely compliant with Russian’s 2006 federal law. They can’t formalized that freedom of people doesn’t matter, they need to make-up a blurry concept of “tradition” and a vague concept of something that may corrupt the aforementioned joke (“traditional values”: the one between the traditional human ape rape cave and matrimonial rites after human ape pack raided another pack and took their females)

I actually didn’t know that the whole point of fitgirl was for compression

The whole point of view of the article is about people from countries that can’t afford the modern AAA price, internet bandwidth… and even PC capable to run the game decently (AAA the full price always take in account hardware that runs on “Ultra settings”; not the customers running it at very low).

As aside note, piracy isn’t even about piracy itself anymore: someone who buy an AAA videogame on “exclusivity store” (such as Epic)… soon or later will discover that’s easier to store a fitgirl copy of his purchase to run the same game seamelessly across all the PC in their household (good old: Install > Next > Next > Finish) … rather having set up those 2+3 launcher per PC.

The problem is “based anywhere”: no party based on a single nation should have censorship control on the global market of a technology (high-end gaming on PC in this case). The problem is not “America bad”, but the presence of America in control of many modern technologies (social network, AI, advertisement, media etc.) makes U.S. a recurring target for bigotry that mess with the overall market (this don’t mean that U.S. have a global-wise issue with bigotry, things could be worse is so many key market were in the hands of any religious zealot country (being Muslim, Christian, Hebrew etc.).

We’re are losing a world that was heading to technological decentralization (emails, websites, interconnected communities (such as forums, irc, bulletin boards), cryptocurrencies etc: this is going to screw with everyone, U.S. citizen themselves also.

…probably also a 400$/€ PC, but here’s the plot twist: it did cost 400$/€

After cutting the price to reach greater audience (originally too expensive) Sony had to remove Linux support from Playstation 3 because companies where amassing lot of those things to set up some sort of DIY supercomputers.

It needs to be cheap.

However, when comparing to the power of locked up device such as ps5, it never hurts reminds that the supposed GPU processing power of a ps5 doesn’t come for free… even if you’ve fully paid your console. Aside for demos or jailbreaked devices (piracy on console) the only way to run graphics at full potential on the locked ps5 is paying full AAA (which now is settling around 80$/€) for EACH product. There are alternatives in the spending (ie: the Netflix alike from Sony’s store)… but those are only options that Sony allow you to (you can’t run weekly free games from EGS, itch.io… or even web browser games!).

Whatever power you pay for any generic PC potentially cover you in any way: you can play arcade vector games as Asteroid at 4k (or even teorical 32K when the hardware will exists).

The difference Valve could make is showing the topical console gamer customer an easy to use access to it: once they’ll see the light… things may go different also for console-only customers (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo wouldn’t want to lose more customers to Valve’s better deal)

I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.

It’s all about the price… and the very recent years weren’t exactly kind in relation for price per performance

It’s mostly a poker game: you need to call with money to keep playing, otherwise you “fold” and they win… even if the winner got shitty (“no papers”) cards.

You can buy it on ebay or alike: a PC/PS2 dvd is basically a license (even if it’s broken: once bought the disc you can download the same exact version of the disc you own…under the EU laws, not sure about elsewhere but nations in the British commonwealth have strong customer protection ).

I am not defending IP laws, I am avoiding people making confusion about what’s SKG scope. I am completely in favor of a similar initiative that addressees IP craziness; but it need to be appropriately represent on what the initiative is about.

Broadly spreading the scope of an initiative is a hostile technique to sink the initiative down: I don’t know if you’re aware of the PirateSoftware fiasco: he tried to say that the initiative would force companies to keep server online forever… just to basically spread the idea “this is impossible, so SKG is impossible”. Luckily SKG initiative was appropriately (and painstakingly patently) readdressed by Ross Scott calling on PirateSoftware, de facto, BS.

SKG address a different issue than NOLF’s IP hellscape.

When a game is killed it doesn’t mean either is free or random shops can sell it without agreement with the right’s holder: only people who bought it previously are (and must be) allowed to play.

If only all monopolies were so user-positive.

All monopolies come into being super user-positive: it’s the moment they need to make money that shit hits the fan.

Is: Google Chrome is an overly appreciate, open source, web browser… then they came to shut down ad blocker “we gotta got +80% web browser share, what are you gonna do about it?”

Must be lemmy.ca then:

That’s the one lemmy did suggest: you can see yourself in the previde lemmy itself auto generate vere insidie the post.

I guess pcgamer sneak the clickbait title in the metà data so they can have clickbait whenever their article are shared, but don’t take full responsibility on their own very pages

Valve is “de facto” monopoly, bit the actual monopoly potential is in Microsoft hands. Microsoft is for PC gaming industry what Google is for the web browser one. Sure, there may be other cool web browsers, but it’s Google that (through Android base) decide whic web browser will be delivered with the next billions of Android mobile device: some elderly people on smartphone don’t even know what is a web browser (“oh, you mean when I Google? I don’t know: I just Google”).

All future new PC will be sold with Microsoft Store and Xbox junk ware: Microsoft has been exceptionally shitty for not being the actual monopoly in the PC gaming industry. But that’s a very feeble protection: break Valve business is just a mandatory “security update” away to happen. They can break Steam little by little (such as suggested by Tim Sweeney) or just a big blow by sheer monopolized manipulation (such as Google not allowing adblockers to chrome to feed their advertising business)