This is the way.

Still Google? What a noob. A real researcher would recommend Ai.

Generative Ai is Among Us.

I desperately didn’t watch his video on his own channel, and waited for someone I trust to react to it. I just watched Gardiner Bryant’s reaction to it: On Invidious https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=W680f2iPu5o or YouTube directly https://youtu.be/W680f2iPu5o . (Edit: just a typo)

Yes, Linux based operating systems have still many issues. So does any other operating system. No one said a Linux based operating system is perfect. In fact, Windows has more issues than Linux, that is why people switch.

I have two different views and explanation what could have happened. Choose one. :D

The only benefit of doubt I can give Linus with this choice is, because its praised and recommended a lot. And that Linus is tackling this from a end user perspective who is searching the web and ChatGPT recommendation, coming of fresh from Windows without Linux experience. We all know Linus has Linux experience, but he might go the unexperienced route as a guide. And none of the websites doing these recommendations talk about the transitional phase PopOS is in right now.

But if I assume “bad” intentions, then he very well have made a risky choice by choice. Because he knows the other two will have good experience and then almost nothing controversial would happen = boring video, no interactions in the comment. He might have chose PopOS to boos his channel, not because he really really want to try PopOS again after he got burned so hard last time…

Off course he picks PopOS, because it bite him before. And off course PopOS is currently under a huge desktop environment change.

As I remember the original author said something in the past after they settled, to his satisfaction. We can only assume he got money, as no details was public. But at least the original author said he is satisfied.

We already have that: Microsoft Edit: Microslop

But that is still preferable over no vouchers. The point is, that the machine gets more expensive because of the vouchers, so that Valve does not pay from their own pocket. This way the system gets more expensive for those who don’t want to use it for gaming and have less incentive of buying it. And for the gamer, they would buy games anyway, so its not a big deal.

The only problem with that is, that the system gets more expensive and that is bad.

Little late reply here… It just occured to me, that there could be a solution to this voucher selling problem. If you purchase the Steam Machine on the Steam page with your Steam account, then you could get the money onto your account. So selling it wouldn’t be possible. However, they could buy and sell items from the Steam item shop…

I actually played Team Fortress 2 before Overwatch and Paladins and Marvel Rivals. And actually I have TF2 Classified installed since weeks. Just need to find time to get into. So yeah, but I want a new game.

Nice some Deadlock postings. I still think the game will be released and marketed to the public with the launch of the Steam Machine. Which would make it a launch title sort of, at least by perception. Imagine the game is invite only and has over 100k players daily. I’m curious to how this game will be monetized.

Overall I don’t speak much about this update itself, because I tested the game a year ago. And stopped playing because it was not exactly what I was hoping for, a Overwatch clone. Instead it is a MOBA with hero shooter controls and mechanics.

Valve is also the only company out of these big gaming companies who do lot of Open Source (working on it and funding other projects) and care about Linux. It maybe coincidental, but these care and goals align with my personal interests. No other company in the gaming industry does that to this extend, plus its an open platform. And being a private company brings also lot of freedom to not listen to shareholders.

The only thing is, that Steam itself is not Open Source… and the uncertainty what will happen if one day Gabe will no longer control…

Being transparent about stable prices without shady experiments is the first step of trust. Years ago Steam got rid of dynamic prices during sales, where prices during sales for games would change. While not exactly the same thing as Sony does, its still good we got stable and reliable prices.

If they try to integrate Copilot and Ai features into the console, on top of trying to use Windows 11 under the hood… oh boy.

Capcom is on a roll!

Pure black background makes it unreadable for me. When I encountered this on websites, i use the Firefox function to turn it into a black on white background theme, so my eyes don’t hurt reading longer text. Same logic applies to the terminal, especially when programming. I think pure black as a background shouldn’t be default. However I do actually appreciate darker tones as background, but its never pure black. It depends on the combination of colors for text (and on the rest of the system theme).

No, Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX like. MacOS is UNIX, based on a BSD system.

But we didn’t see any gameplay since then and no other announcements. I don’t think that a 7 year old teaser adds to exhaustion in the sense I was talking about. When we saw Crimson Desert the first time just recently, it was new experience for us to see, not a 7 year old game.