I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.

Somebody make this into a free game on steam with some dumb achievements and being able to change the colour of the nub if you do it 100 times or something.

While I agree people’s experiences vary wildly, there’s plenty recorded gameplay video that shows it happening.

That aside, they can take their invasive measures and shove it up their cloud where it can and should operate, not on my goddamn machine.

Secure boot. TPM2.0. And a kernel level anticheat on top.

Yet, still hackers in game.

Thank you for reminding me. I went ahead and tossed it out just now.

Not sure how recent we’re talking but within the last year or so my 2 biggest disappointments have been once human and nightingale. I can usually work around jank and weird creative decisions, but unfortunately neither of these two were worth any of the time I’ve spent playing em since they felt like they didn’t seem to want you to progress.

Played once human for about 3 days, nightingale for around 3 hours and then refunded.

And tarkov isn’t even on steam… yet?

Look Outside just had a major 2.0 patch. Solid horror game. And it’s 30% off at the moment.

Steam link

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Both? Both. Both is good.

https://www.gog.com/en/patrons

Launched the other day if you want to throw a bit of money to their cause

Releases in like 22 hours from the time of this comment!

The bazaar on bazzite is really convenient for the non-power user

https://yearofthelinuxdesktop.net/

According to the flowchart there, cachyOS or bazzite, also some other tools and recommendations, good luck!

Isn’t mint based on Ubuntu? So that should work without a hitch for you. Worst case just boot into the live usb without installing it directly and just try it there.

As for me, I dual boot on separate drives because I have specific software that requires windows sometimes. Otherwise it’s primarily Linux on all machines in the house.

Steam is fine, for the most part, but steam is also DRM. Personally I opt to buy games on GoG, because whatever releases there, you can download the installer and play offline, anywhere, anytime, and due to the platform requirements it strips a lot of the extra nonsense of requiring accounts and launchers and such.

The one downside is some publishers/developers don’t have the latest version on there or release on there later as definitive builds, but it’s better than having to deal with all that nonsense to begin with.

For M$ to subsidize some of the cost of the hardware seeing how it’s their “next leap” for the Xbox? Or something along those lines.

I’d like my sidebar menu back

https://yearofthelinuxdesktop.net/

Good resource for those needing a bit of convincing and/or hand holding.

I’m not sure steam deck would even be considered “high cost” since you can get a refurbished unit directly from steam for about half the price of a switch 2.

And even a brand new one is still cheaper.

Plus there are parts and instructions available on how to fix and replace pieces yourself should that ever be needed, unlike some drift issues from Nintendo’s controllers where they basically tell you to spend more money or get bent.