I had to read it several times to understand what you meant, but I suspect that you’re right.

Buying a full pc that will end up being potentially limited to gaming doesn’t really make sense. Valve has a solution that’s more integrated and probably better suited for most consumers.

We have transferred your clone to 2005, please step into the incinerator.

Light gaming, like Pong, or Breakout. Time to rediscover the classics!

Browsers manage this just fine: just middle click on the tab.

And it can even defuse the bomb at site B while you’re making dinner.

It seems to me that things like

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues?label_name[]=9000+dGPU+series

Are a fairly good example of the problems that many people are having. Note they’re not very random but tend to follow a distinct motif. The driver freezes the display or the system at random times. And if it’s such a rare occurrence, I must be so very lucky.

I’m not saying that one brand is better than the other. Just that the endless shills saying that AMD is the Linux messiah are both tiresome and wrong. There can be, and are, many problems with AMS din Linux, just like there are with nVidia.

There’s a well known bug in amdgpu that will freeze your display or your whole system. Just search “amdgpu freeze linux”, apart from the usual shills it’s not a secret.

Amd doesn’t necessarily work better than nVidia. It can completely break your system if you’re unlucky.

“Innovative” means “hey, I think I’ve heard of this title!”.

Your sims will have to pause five times per day to pray.

Lies! They will live forever! In Star Citizen!

Ok, maybe just in the alpha.

Every one should have the right to bear ARM.

“My, grandma, what a big radiator you have!”

I wish they just made up their mind.

There are many single player scenarios for arma. On top of the ones that are in the game.

It’s still a decent game.

Isn’t toothpaste relatively decent as those things go?

Oooh, free 386! Wohoo!

And more importantly, where’s the IA?

Come on, what can a hundred dollars be anyway? Five bananas?

There was a doom port I think.
Of course there soon was a doom port for pretty much everything, so it’s not saying much.

The problem is that they’re beyond another type of enemy. There’s a a sizeable portion of players that loves just killing other players, not to loot them (because they’re nebvies, there’s nothing to loot), not to defend something, or whatever, just to relish in the carnage of helpless others.

I’m like your friends, I just never play a game if there’s any PVP involved. It’s not worth it. I play to have fun, not to be a perpetual victim.

Yes, because gamers turn into scum whenever PVP is involved.

You’ve got to catch them all, but now there’s an endless stream of them being generated by the Nintendo AI.

Makes sense, they’re waiting to see how your civil war is going to turn out first.

You can get a licence from Nintendo if you like.

Shouldn’t take them long to patent the concept of “game”.

Sad, unfair, infuriating, but probably true.

Yes, obviously, and you don’t typically have trouble with display drivers either nowadays, I suppose we were both jesting.

The right way to do it would probably be either to spin a dedicated partition, or to add a boot entry that sets up a dedicated environment for the game (I haven’t really thought about it but it’s probably doable). In both cases it’s a bit silly, when the whole anti-cheat thing is apparently mostly useless anyway.

In Linux you could prob just run a pass-through in a couple of VMs.

So instead of having trouble with drivers for your one GPU, you can have it with two. Awesome.

Oh, ok. That makes sense.

It’s strange that console exploits wouldn’t work consistently on identical hardware with identical firmware. What is it that makes it fail so often?

That doesn’t seem to take a lot of effort. It’s still a windows binary. And it’s unfortunately simpler than figuring out if the user runs X or not.

I’ve been running Linux on my desktop for more than 30 years, so I’ve switched for a while. And while I’d certainly like to see it become more commonplace, I’m not sure a few decimal points are really going to change anything. It’s nice that it’s making progress, of course, but all in all, it’s rather insignificant.
While it’s under 10, or more likely 15%, nobody will care about it.

You’d expect them to put profits above this kind of petty consideration. That would only be valid if the company was owned by a fairly small group.

There’s really nothing stopping anyone from posting that right now. That’s the quality level of most of the online content nowadays.

Don’t they have shareholders though?

Thanks to this mess, I ended up installing Wero.
Now I just have to find somewhere to use it… 😐

Like buying anything would actually damage the brand of Mastercard. It’s such a nonsensical excuse that I’m surprised nobody laughed in their face.

Couldn’t they just block collective shout thus probably losing far less business?

A lot of nice people aren’t especially fun. I’m not sure it’s a great metric.