I think a lot of people will have a bad day. Some will swear off PC gaming altogether and switch to console, others might look towards Linux thanks to a friend or a helpful individual online, and a small minority will understand the problem and actively avoid the companies that caused the problem.
It probably won't affect sales of the company involved too much sadly unless everyone point their fingers at the company in the news.
Thanks, I wish the same for you friend! I use arch so they're pretty fast at fixing stuff. Yesterday they pushed an update that minimized the crashing but it'll probably be totally fixed by today or tomorrow unless it's a driver bug.
I was a terrible citizen and ignored the problem instead of reporting the bug. I just wanted to get some coding done so I just clicked the restart Firefox button over and over. That minor fix did wonders though! It only crashed two more times to my recollection.
If it was malicious it wouldn't have had the reach a trusted platform would. That is what made the xz exploit so scary was the reach and the malicious attempt.
I like open source software but that's one big benefit of proprietary software. Not all proprietary software is bad. We should recognize the ones doing their best to avoid anti consumer practices and genuinely try to serve their customers needs to the best of their abilities.
It's only funny because it's a blue screen(a very windows thing). Imagine what this will be like when a game inevitably pushes a bad kernel level anti cheat update.
Firefox kept crashing because of explicit sync. Nothing new for an nvidia user such as myself. Still never going back to xorg.
It's summer, I'll warm myself by that garbage fire in the winter.
A distro used by Walmart because they were too cheap to pay for windows.
What drivers issues, don't consoles require just as many updates? I distinctly remember console update taking upwards of a half an hour to install like 300Mb. Refusing to update would log you out and disable digitally purchased games. It often killed the mood when I just wanted to play some games after work, the steam deck filled that spot nicely.
Besides I use Linux so my drivers are built in and updates are unintrusive and take no time to apply. I have it set to remind me once a month, I get a little icon in the taskbar and I apply them before shutting down. It takes like two minutes.
I'm not judging if you like console but modern consoles are just as annoying as any other internet appliances. They need updates, they need regular Internet access to work, they can't really do anything else, when it shits the bed your expected to throw it away get a new one, and often have tack on a monthly fee for basic features.
I need a computer so instead of splitting the cost between a computer that won't be too slow to do any real work and a $500 game console I just get a more powerful computer and justify the cost with the money I'm saving.
I mean console games are always more expensive. There's always something amusing about getting about 20 good games for five bucks on PC. Also epic games is still trying to bribe us with free games.
Chromebook ready😂
Mfers be playing cyberpunk on an i3 with 1g of ram.
Yeah, whatever is reasonable and within the terms of your lease is usually the best bet.
Thanks! If it gets annoying I'll give it a shot.