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[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think you're discounting just how much they've invested and continue to invest in Proton/WINE

I'm not really sure I am... Do we have some actual numbers into how much money they've sunk in linux?
Gaming on linux is a huge community effort, whether it's wine, dxvk, vkd3d, mesa, linux itself... and plenty of smaller projects like lutris, bottles, UMU... And all this spans literal decades, far before valve ever got involved.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Beginners using vanilla GNOME

Beginners will never really be in a position where they'll be using vanilla gnome, so that argument is kinda moot. And even if they did, those features are literally one extension away...

will quickly miss features like a minimize button and certainly tray icons.

Tray icons don't exist in gnome's ecosystem, it only becomes problematic once you get third party applications. The real problems are the minimize/maximize, desktop icons, and panel on top when coming from windows. Although these days with the ever increasing phone use people might just be more at ease with gnome's workflow anyways.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It annoys me too that Valve is getting most of the credit for Proton while most of the work is actually done in winehq, dxvk... I'm sure Valve pays for some development here and there, and greases some developer wheels, but the main thing they do is being a front end for consumers.

[–] imecth@fedia.io -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My point being that while valve itself has only 350 employees, it subcontracts far more than that.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

These stats don't include subcontractors and as such they're very misleading. For example, who do you think produces the GPUs inside the steam deck? Hint: it's not Valve.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And now I realize it must have been dreadful, at first.

That's basically sleep paralysis.

[–] imecth@fedia.io -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This isn't massive flaws that suddenly appeared overnight, or the straw that broke the camel's back, it's purely because they want to get back at the developer. So yes, I think "review bombing" is accurate.

Don't get me wrong, i dislike enshittification as much as the next guy; but I don't think a game's review should be about what the devs posted on twitter yesterday.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would only serve to advertise their ips, just look at Overwatch. If you really want to fuck with a corporation, the best way is to forget about them.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole thing never made much sense anyways, machines would be without scrupules and cut off any redundancies like extra limbs, they'd probably just keep your brain in a jar.

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