Ah ok hah, was just confused by the fact that it doesn't seem relevant at all.
teawrecks
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Are you responding to the comment you think you're responding to?
Banning is fine, we're talking about remote bricking. If I hack my Xbox, I'm fine with not being allowed to use it to join msft's network, but I am not fine with them identifying my hacked device over the internet and actively sending some sort of backdoor self-destruct instruction to it. To me that's a violation of the CFAA.
Yeah, I guess they thought he was doing a big research project on diversity lol. Banned from libraries, sure obviously. Banned from book stores? Why? He's good business! If I owned a book store I'd gladly sell him 100 books, and 100 more when he's done.
I disagree with his views, and he definitely should pay for every book he burned, but I'll defend to the death the right to burn things in protest.
Hm, I would have said it's not arson if he did it on his own property in a safe manner. But I also don't know if the definition of arson includes any burning of others' property without permission, even if you were allowed to bring the property somewhere where you're allowed to start fires...
As long as the fines he is now due cover the cost of rebuying brand new copies, I thank him for his donation.
It's hard to say. I agree, it seems like the MAU data for each of League and Fortnite is roughly the same as MAU for all of Steam (which is nuts). Of course there's no way to know how much overlap is there. Still, both of these titles would be a hard stop for people deciding whether to switch to Linux.
As for msft themselves though, ironically I don't know what titles they have that keep players on windows. Battle.net works on Linux, Minecraft Java ed works on Linux (not sure about bedrock ed compatibility or player count, but afaik most of those players are on non-PC platforms), all their zenimax titles are sold through steam and work great on Linux. CoD might be their biggest hold.
I disagree on number of games, but I agree on player count. The number of PC games that are not on steam (or don't work on linux) is tiny these days. But the number of PC gamers who don't need steam, or need something that doesn't run on linux is probably still quite high. Still, even if valve was able to push a few % of PC gamers to Linux, that would be huge. We're currently at 2% on Linux in steam surveys. I could see a power move by valve around win10 eol bringing that closer to 10%.
I think that was them drawing a line on eol windows. They cut both 7 and 8.1 at the same time. Could just be the policy now.
Part of me wants them to take the opportunity to push people to switch to Linux, the other part of me thinks that will be perceived no differently from msft's badgering about win11.
Maybe you don't understand it, but that doesn't mean you don't rely on it. If I said an OS was unusable by 99% of people because it didn't support multithreading, it doesn't matter if 99% of people know what multithreading is, that's clearly a true statement. Similarly, if you've ever expected your PC to have the same files on it tomorrow that you put on it today, then you might find it annoying when that's not the case.
You're forgetting that valve can also drop support for EOL versions of windows, which so far they have.
I'm convinced 90% of them have never run either and just like to complain about stuff.