imecth

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[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, we definitely do have a steam monopoly on desktop, they might not be abusing their position much, as of yet anyways, but it's a monopoly all the same. They captured the desktop playerbase in their little ecosystem and now people are stuck because of their game catalog, achievements, friend list...

What we really need is a standardization of these systems and interoperability between platforms so that they're forced to actually compete instead of being miles ahead just by virtue of being there first.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's bloat, unnecessary junk that's part of their ecosystem. Instead of having specialized apps, you have one app that does everything; and of course every other brand has to have their own, even fucking musk wants it for twitter.

This creates two problems, first it strains your hardware for no reason, second it creates dozens of walled gardens that don't interoperate, if you want to chat with your steam friends, you need to go on steam, if you want to play your games, you need to open the right launcher; this is the same shit apple is getting prosecuted for by the EU right now.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 19 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Sounds good to me. It's annoying that connecting to a store and a social media platform has become so normalized. I just want to play a game.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

They probably just never got around to updating that description. I only inquired because I'd heard of that website before.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Brand new is definitely a stretch, their legal page seems to date back to 2019.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wine can run 32 bit games with WOW64 without the 32 bit libraries

[–] imecth@fedia.io 8 points 10 months ago

That 10% is only there so that you can participate and feel involved; awards are mostly money schemes and industry people patting each other on the back.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 15 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile they reveal 1 Billion revenue from their latest acquisition...

[–] imecth@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

Tilda is barely maintained anymore, you can get Tilix that has the same quake like feature. You can also add the quake terminal extension to your favorite alternative if you use gnome.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wine-GE was abandoned for the new UMU-launcher. Lutris will use UMU if you target the GE-Proton (latest) version.

You can always use vanilla wine or wine staging too, make sure you install dxvk in the prefix though with winetricks.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago

Installing things on linux is generally the same as phones. There's a shop-like GUI where you can look up your applications and get them, they'll also update automatically.

If the software isn't in your distribution repository, that's when it starts to be like windows, you need to hunt it down and either get an appimage or something like that, or build and compile it yourself.

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