And from ex-ubisoft devs no less; the undisputed king of mediocrity. It’s a testament to how utterly crushing the weight of shareholder influence and middle management bloat is on the people working there. Creativity cannot flourish within a publicly owned company that only seeks profit and nothing more.

What’s important right now is converting people away from windows. I expect Steam OS 3 to be much more beginner friendly than any other distro. If an average PC gamers first impression of linux is constant troubleshooting, they’re not going to try another kernel; they’re just going to go back to windows.

Even if valve stops support later, they will have still introduced many people to linux in a beginner friendly way and wrestled the gaming ecosystem out of microsoft’s grip that much more.

It’s normal for old versions of an OS to stop receiving support after a new version replaces it. That’s not unique to steam OS. if I install an old version of bazzite, or any deprecated Linux kernel, modern apps will not necessarily be made backwards compatible with it.

But steam OS will have more installs than any other Linux variant just because of Valve’s brand recognition alone and the FOSS community will target it as their primary platform for software compatibility as a result.

I agree but steam OS is going to be a hell of a lot more popular and have more support as a result.

borderlands wasn’t the first looter shooter. that was hellgate london.

Eventually even the cost savings this brings to them won’t be enough to appease their shareholder overlords and they won’t have the amount of users to sustain another major pivot so they’ll go bankrupt.

Wall street are a bunch of piranhas that destroy everything they touch just to build new billionaires. It’s a cult of sociopaths.

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Sure. Rich people don’t want to live anywhere where poor people also live.

Celery and peanut butter together are the best if you like both of those things separately

It doesn’t matter who the president is when the country is actually controlled by wealthy oligarchs. We cannot solve that problem by voting.

oh my fucking god

looks like me and the boys are going back to teamspeak

discord also uses opus

Idealogues getting mad that their ideology is becoming less popular is both predictable and uninteresting. It’s mostly astroturfing. Left vs right is a divide and conquer tactic to get the workers to not rise up against the oligarchs by convincing them to blame other workers for their problems.

There is no war but the class war.

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why is that?

They say stuff that isn’t true because it gets them engagement from people who come to correct them. We figured out how to generate profit from misinformation.

lalal AI has made some great innovations in taking songs and separating them into vocals and instrumentals. that’s a game changer for remix artists.

other than that niche utility and a handful of others, AI is largely bullshit.

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Mega corporations that only hire contract workers with no morale or investment in the long term success of the company (because the majority of their efforts are purely to appear shareholders) are not equipped with the means to put out decent products.

Passion, dedication, investment in workers, and long term talent are what create remarkable pieces of software. Microsoft has none of this because these things are incompatible with the directives of infinite growth shareholder appeasement. Want extra time for QA? nope, that would reduce profits. Want to pay higher salaries to attract better talent? Nope, that would reduce profits. Want to adequately reward employees in ways they actually connect with like raises and bonuses? Nope, that would cut into the boss’ annual bonus and he needs his new vacation home more than we need to afford rent.

There is an optimal level of profit chasing and company size within which excellent software can be produced, and Microsoft exceeded those thresholds years ago. There is also an optimal phase of capitalism that is conducive to quality innovation and development, and we’re well past it.