I have kids and I have a huge library of games on Playstation and PC. What are they playing?
Fortnite and Roblox instead, which they could play for free if they didn’t want to get cool skins. So, no, games aren’t as expensive for kids as they used to be, except if they waste a lot of money in predatory schemes in games where they could play for free and just 1-2 things to support the devs.
The price of new games isn’t a problem for me as they are still cheaper than what they were when I was a kid. In my country Switzerland, an expensive new game is stll less than CHF100.- when some Nes games were CHF120.- thirty years ago. Back in the Playstation 1 era games were around CHF89.- and now most Playstation 5 games are around CHF79.-.
And that’s not taking inflation into account!
Gaming is one of the few things which has become cheaper in my lifetime, especially now that I get a lot of old games on my Steam Deck and only racing sims on my Playstation 5.
For me the problem is that you can pay such an amount and still be subject to many popups begging for your money (microtransactions) or DRM’s (always online or others).
Or that, thanks to digital games, you’ll soon not be able to resell an expensive game that you didn’t enjoy enough to keep.
And also the fact that games aren’t really prettier than 10 years ago but that you still need better hardware to play them.
I think game companies really need to have a look at why their games are becoming so expensive, because I don’t think it’s because they are treating their employees better.
Clearly everyone is different as switching is what forced me to fully go into Linux and don’t look back. It’s the same with using Virtual Machines, I can’t fully immerse myself as not everything is configured the way it would if it was on bare metal (gestures for instances…).
I think my advice would be to fully switch if dual booting (two OS’s, or even more, on the same computer) isn’t an option or if you don’t have a second computer which can give you a solid experience (not talking about an early 2000 laptop which is gonna make you think that Linux is slow).
Also, about your Mac, I run a 2012 upgraded MacBook Pro as a secondary comptuer and it runs Fedora perfectly. Once every 1-2 year, there is a small problem with the broadcom wifi chip, but otherwise I haven’t encountered any issue.
In fact, I have less issues with it than on my main computer (a Surface Go 1 hooked to a big screen), but its smaller size is more practical to me.
I’m hoping the game will be released on GOG as I wouldn’t buy a game I’ve already owned on console on Steam since it wouldn’t be DRM free.
I guess the old one might feel really old if it’s your first Final Fantasy.
Even the remakes feel a bit dated in a way (not graphically).
As long you can still play the old version with your old save, I don’t see the problem.
Although I wonder what the new version introduces…
I might replay FFVII at one point after getting the third episode of the remake. It’d be a nice way to spot the differences in the story…
What got me disappointed is that I heard so much about KDE customization and that it wasn’t buggy anymore.
I thought I’d be able to reproduce the vanilla Gnome workflow where you easily switch between workspaces. This with the advantage of things being customizable.
But it’s just too buggy and complicated for me…
I’m also trying to enjoy KDE as everyone is praising it and Gnome lacks a tiny bit of customization.
But I really prefer Gnome and feel really different than everyone on Lemmy.
So yeah a DE is more important than the distro to me.
Apparently a lot of games don’t have DRMs on Steam. The only thing missing is a badge indicating this.
So at least you own these…
Yeah the two last games are really great and I enjoyed them so much on Steam Deck.
Well there is something kind of exciting about running Linux on Apple or Surface hardware once it gets really cheap and isn’t supported anymore.
Of course, if you buy it new, it’s different.
For me, it’s either I get Linux friendly new stuff or dirt cheap Apple/Surface hardware in second/third hand…
Well for me it’s good news for when these devices won’t be supported by Apple anymore and they’ll become really cheap.
Although the fact that most of the parts aren’t replaceable is also a problem in that case…
Having one launcher isn’t a problem for me. Steam’s OS’s launcher even allows me to launch GOG games through Heroic without even really launching Heroic.
Where it starts being a problem is when individual games need their own launcher…
I see the launcher as the system menu in a console…
Well they are based in my city and they’ve been around for 30 years.
They use their datacenters to heat buildings and seem to have good ethos.
I’ve been using kdrive for 5 years and I can only complain about the lack of Flatpak (Appimage for Linux) and the fact that they don’t have an alternative to something like Google Photos.
Of course I can’t guarantee they’ll stay like this, but they’re really not a startup
Infomaniak is even cheaper with kdrive https://www.infomaniak.com/fr/ksuite/kdrive/tarifs
It worked perfectly out of the box with Fedora on a MacBook Pro 2012.
But I guess every MacBook generation has its little problems with Linux.
Mine is with the wifi going away once a year…
I think you just have to make the jump and install a distro on your computer while accepting that it’s not because you don’t like the first distro that all of them are the same.
Once the first step is done and your old OS isn’t around anymore, you’ll be forced to find something suited to your needs.
Do you plan on installing Linux on your Mac? If it’s Intel based it’s easy, but if it’s an M model your choices are more restricted…
So what? How much bigger is it than the other one?
If it allows me to not change too many things on the Deck to install, I’m okay with wasting some space compared to other solutions.
Also it can emulate not just one console.
You haven’t read my comment I guess.
I have a lot of games that I bought (mostly for max CHF 20.-, so max 25$), but they are only playing free live service games.