My guess is that this device will upsell you on GamePass constantly by making everything else possible but slightly annoying. MS might be the biggest video game publisher these days so there’s still plenty of leverage they have (buying ActiBlizz was huge and EA could be in trouble because FC 25 is not selling as well as FIFA). MS „lost” console war but this allows them to keep foot in the door and still exert some power over the platform.
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Chinese Satellites Complete First High-Altitude Rendezvous for Possible Groundbreaking Refuelling
(www.extremetech.com)
I’m not sure there is that much AA to give away these days. Countries need to have some of their own (to keep up the facade) and Ukraine got loads of existing stockpiles already so there’s not that much to go around anymore.
Nobody has enough intercepting missiles for when an actual war breaks out. Some countries have enough to pretend they’re safe, others are worse off. What was Israel thinking when they started this war? (rhetorical)
Saying that Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and support when they are forcing everyone to either pay for win10 support or join the win11 spyware mafia is a ludicrous statement btw.
What are you using as a benchmark? Is there any OS that supports hardware or software this long? Find an original Quake 3 Linux installer and see how that goes. Not sure what spyware has to do with that.
Games with kernel-level anticheat do work on Linux, if the anticheat provider has done the work. Right now, most don't and actively stopped supporting Linux so saying that won't work ever is kind of a stretch.
To an end user this is a Linux problem. Like, „Haiku OS can run all the games except developers don’t support it” won’t cut it as an explanation for why your games don’t work.
"Isn't good enough to replace windows" - here I am playing Modded games, path of exile, ffxiv, other FF games, cyberpunk, all PC monster Hunter games.... Your statement is false.
You’re playing some games. Same can be said about Switch yet everybody here acts like it is some huge failure.
I see nothing wrong with using a compatibility layer, it does the work of retrocompatibility alongside separating game environments, which is good for security.
It is reverse engineered and with the level of complexity of Windows and Windows being a moving target it will never get there 100%. You have to make a conscious choice to lose access to some of your games when moving from Windows, and possibly lose access to some games that worked on Linux previously after you moved.
Microsoft is likely to develop a stripped down version of Windows for those handhelds. Windows isn’t fundamentally incapable of low overhead and Xbox runs something similar.
As to why you’d want to use Windows even if you’re tech savvy there are loads of reasons:
- Native access to other digital storefronts (Valve wants to lock you in with Steam Deck)
- Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and long term support seriously, unlike Valve that has a history of abandoning things when they no longer found them immediately profitable
- There are plenty of games with kernel-level anti-cheat that won’t work with Wine/Proton ever
- Wine/Proton compatibility isn’t good enough to replace Windows
- Valve pushes Proton so heavily that developers stopped creating native Linux ports so the above is unlikely to change anytime soon
But there are also good reasons to go with SD like very very good VRR screen utilisation (Xbox is also good at this so maybe there’s hope for Windows).
If i was a neighbor of Germany i would get very worried. Germany now openly embraces attack wars against other countries. In combination with the plans to massively arm up this government and a potential future government with AfD in the coalition will probably be interested in invading other countries again.
Modern day European post-fascists and Israeli zionists have so much in common because both hate Muslims you have to appreciate how funny history can be. But yes, yikes.
I get you too but you also mention the reason why I think this kind of news in a „world news” community is bad for it. Americans are currently deep into a very tribal kind of political debate and start treating every place on the internet that they can find like another battleground. Many websites that report things like tech news try to shoehorn Trump news and quality of that journalism is very low so it gets quite tiring. It’s very hard to find a corner of the internet that’s free from US politics these days, hence I’m trying to push back a bit. It’s not like there’s not enough world-news-worthy stories where Trump behaves like a moron if you need to do that.
That’s US domestic politics, not world news.
They realised that this thing has even less character than Concord. Time to remake the game as roguelite deckbuilder.
You know that I use Linux too and I know being able to run anything is just bs?