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Abandon Xbox for Windows 11?
So leaving one toxic boyfriend just to get with another?
Welcome to the PC Master Race, friends.
It's warm, cozy, and you don't have to drag yourself to a GameStop if you don't want to.
I mean it's a no brainer. if you are forced digital anyway, PC has both steam and gamepass (for pc or ultimate if you also have an xbox). Why lock yourself into an ecosystem that provides no value, when you can go into an ecosystem that not only provides you with most of the Xbox catalog if you want to pay a sub, but also all of the other PC storefronts.
The only reason people ever went console was for the low price, exclusives, the convienence and the physical market. The exclusives have sucked, the price is no longer low, and the physical market has been nuked by an atom bomb.
The question Sony should really be asking here is "why do people buy into our market" because they are actively destroying it.
Anything but Linux…
I don’t see why they don’t at least try it, it’s free.
The article is probably paid propaganda by Microsoft.
Just look at the site's name. Not biased at all!
The last thing I want is AAA game studios supporting Linux due to a max exodus of Windows users, because that means they'll shoehorn their kernel anticheat into proton. Keep that shit away from my work machines. If the capability is included at all, then it will become a vector for nasty exploits.
I can't see how they'd do it, proton gets installed by the steam client. That client doesn't run with root privilege, so at the very least they'd have to trigger a password dialog which would be highly obvious.
From what im seeing people are looking at steam/linux as an alternative not windows. With the RAM shortage, windows is probably the worst solution out of the available options.
Either way it sucks to get rid of the only way to get used games anymore. Im hoping this kicks back more and we see more partnerships with companies like limited run games and others who do physical releases. https://megacatstudios.com/products/zpf for example.
This is what i am hoping. Windows is still MS and their anti gaming bull.
It is now the moment for Valve to announce that they have come up with a way to let you sell/exchange games between users on Steam. They do this and they eat the whole market.
...don't...don't they already have this feature? Steam Family allows you to share libraries of games with your "family members".
And unlike Nintendo with their Virtual Game Card two-week limit, you can share Steam games forever AFAIK.
They will never do this, but we can dream.
If valve released a "exchange program" that allows you to trade digital licenses, even for a fee, it would be revolutionary.
Save about $100 and your sanity by using Linux over Windows
It only saves your sanity if you have a full AMD build. Otherwise, you better be an IT pro or have the time and inclination to do a lot of learning. Nvidia drivers are notoriously problematic with Linux
as popular as diy and linux are on lemmy, pre-builts are still bought by more gamers; and those almost always include windows.
See the Steam Machine could've been the perfect pre-built machine for casual gamers looking to dip their toes into PC gaming.
Some prebuilts allow you to skip the OS or the drive altogether and save money
The disc at this stage is somewhat symbolic, its the line that sand against the anti consumer practices being pushed by the platforms.
We have trusted them and during that they have:
And now they are getting pretty bold of what they want.
They are testing the tolerance with this. This is not about the physical disc. Its about saying enough!
What possibilities are lost with the disc(ontinuation)? Has running the PS without a permanent network connection been a regular use case for many? Are DLCs and frequent patches and updates not a thing in the Sony sphere?
I think it's mostly about being able to have physical media that you own and can't be turned off.
I think it’s like most things, 1% are loud and the rest will accept it
I think the percentage may be higher, but people who like physical media are more likely to be people who buy things second-hand and people who buy much fewer games, but keep playing them for much longer. Sony simply doesn't care about them, because the ones who move the market are the ones who buy a lot of games, making huge backlogs that will never be touched, pay for subscriptions, etc, and those people don't care about physical media
Yep, the amount of acceptance is disheartening. i hope those console gamers keep taking it so pcs still have a tad of affordability.
Like jumping from a trash bin to another trash bin.
Oh they are so close yet so far away
It's like when Twitter went downhill, everyone moved to [next corporate owned thing, yet to be enshittified. Anything but the fediverse.]
Turds with different shades.
