They won't kill side loading (the fact we even call it side loading instead of simply installing software is a problem). They'll just shoot it in the knees a little. No big deal.
Ship of harkinian (OOT) has all kinds of features like straight up adding buttons to the game and modifying the HUD accordingly, so I assume there will be things like that. Some of those features like adding right stick camera even make the game feel a whole generation newer.
not leeching, Valve mostly lucked into this monopoly because of how grossly incompetent competition was at the time.
Just to be clear, the majority of the current competition is not only incompetent but actively malicious. The ones that don't suck already have a toehold and I would like to see flourish because competition is good for everyone, but this picture you paint of steam is honestly ridiculous.
Thank you. I'm not against any of that, except maybe some definition needs to be applied to what is infra and what is store. For instance, a big part of what people like about steam is that they have reliable reviews. That would need to remain true with this split. I think there is a fine line to walk between enforcing interoperability and compromising or letting other companies leech on steam for no reason. You also seem to be implying that regardless of what store you purchase something on, you can access it from any other store because steam manages the licenses? Seems strange to me.
I want justice for victims and to stop trafficking as much as anyone, but everyone pinning their hopes on the Epstein files being a backdoor to dismantling this fascist takeover are delusional.
Small sample but everyone i know dropped it on the increase to 30 bucks. One of them had been primarily playing PlayStation and xbox for the last decade but has gotten and primarily plays steam deck now.
I’m watching people in my industry (software development) who’ve bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they’re producing the shittiest garbage I’ve laid eyes on as a developer.
Yes. Then I come on Lemmy and see a dedicated pack of heralds concurrently professing that they do the work of 10 devs while eating bon bons and everyone that isn't using it is stupid. So annoying
I epic hasn't done anything but the bare minimum plus trying to buy their way into the market. Additionally, I don't trust them a single bit. If they actually managed to get market share they should enshittify before you could blink.
I have even less nice things to say about all the other publisher run marketplaces.
GoG is cool because of their DRM policy and preservation. Steam provides labels for anticonsumer practices so consumers can be informed and does the cool stuff for Linux compatibility.
What exactly are you wanting regulators to do that you think will make people want to use EGS?
They're trying to leverage their windows platform to seek rent (sell premium cloud services like LLM access) for shit people don't even want because they aren't satisfied making very respectable money on licenses.
They should also be opt in. Having a subdomain that almost no one knows about and requires adding a search engine to browsers to make default which most people don't even know you can do is not good enough.
Yeah the DE is your desktop, launcher, window manager, setting manager etc. So Gnome, KDE Plasma, mutter, etc. It is what most people will notice.
The distro is basically a package manager and assembly of packages. So if you were to use ubuntu for instance, there is a default DE, but you'll notice there are a bunch of "flavors" available. These are mostly different desktop environments and default applications, but all of the stuff in any of them are in the package lists and available to install regardless of flavor.
The main differences between distros are
release cadence
fixed. They release a major update on a regular schedule and only backport bug fixes and security patches
rolling. One package set that every installation always updates to latest
package management
some are able to manage packages purely by GUI and some you must use the command line (or if you can use GUI at some point you might have to fall back because it doesn't have first class support)
Many distros you don't even have to do anything but install packages to switch desktop environments, which are really what people are recommending when they're trying to say what is similar to mac
Why would we?