But then again, since there is a quite revolution with Steam...and their shit just seems to fucking work....maybe they have some magic, or maybe they understand the target market for the device, and most play fucking super mario and shit like pitfall. Not [insert first person shooter latest title here]. I mean I know there are a fuck ton of folks that play the shooter games, but they likely have lots of internal data to show that steam deck can target like 50-70% of most games played, so its a way to get steam in more houses without nerds building a "gaming pc" If they were smart.....or shit if we were smart, we'd build a XSteam Linux that rolls everything in there to make a functional desktop and installs steam, so a simple one click IOS, answer a few questions, and the box is running with Libreoffice or the likes, some video players, spotify, etc, and steam installed. Then ask for a $1 or $5 donation (not required). Use a Linux that is not cripped like ubuntu, runs on lighter systems and just fucking works.
I mean how many might download it and donate? Fuck send all the funds to Poal...this is an idea.
I am not in this scene, and don't know if there is such a thing already....also, too lazy to look as I was more just talking outloud.
I think quite a bit of steam's popularity is manufactured. What's happening is people are accepting digital "ownership" (sic: you own nothing goy) because Gabe is so heckin awesome! I will never buy a game I don't own, that I need to connect to some server for, that can be taken from me. Otherwse, who are often much younger, have a different view of life and are fine paying for the ability to rent a game. Now, that isn't to say I've never dipped my toes a bit in steam. I own a few games (so like 120 or something because games come with so many additional bonuses), but it's like the Half-Life bundle, the Portal Bundle, a Civ bundle I think, and things that, meh. I"m not, never have, and never will pay $80 for the next slightly upgraded Counter Strike, modern warfare etc.
I agree with you here. It was an attempt to to drive a knife into windows, move users to linux...fuck just said this.
I too belive in owning the game...but even then, so many ownership games require the validation server to work. If that goes down, you have a shiny mirror hanger.
Remember when...who was it....loadrunner by borderbund just hole punched a fucking hole in the floppy, and went to read that sector, if could be read, then HONK, no play. Based all on if it gets a read error in the right place it works. That was an awesome copy protection point...as the game had no data around that point....good shit.
It's a thought. I have built extremely customized Linux OS's and a full package pipeline. Though, there are a lot of groups out there doing it already. It would be better to focus time/effort's on something that is already established than to start something new.
But the focus is multi-fold. Move genz and gena users away from windows. Get them on Linux, make it easy, let them game. Then we have broken them from the kike operating system that windows is. Marketing would just be enough to get an article written, and some tictok posts or insta on the "new os to run steam, simple install, with this simple hack you can play games and not be dependent on windows an bill gate's genetic modifications on humanity"
Seems like that knida shit would explode.....but then again, I don't tickfuck, or instawhore, I can't to the slipstream install, so what could I do....
I'm an idea man dammit, I COME UP WITH THE IDEAS AND TAKE THEM TO THE ENGINNERS.
I have been trying to do this for decades man. I have taught (college level) *nix.
You don't need to preach to me. I get it. I also get your frustration at a deep level.
In the end, I still use windows garbage from time to time because of games. It is a over glorified game os now. Nothing more. (at least not to me). everything else, for the most part, *nix.
Right now I am building a pipeline to build a reproducible image (easy) for my RPi setup's that is heavily customized for what I do with them. Maybe ill upload it publicly at some point. I still have not brought my old websites back to life. Christmas project maybe?
As a after thought. Most of these people don't realize they are barely ever actually using Windows. Android and iOS are *nix based.
Most servers in the world are *nix based. The "future is mobile" crowd is using Linux without ever knowing they are. They don't give one fuck what is under the hood as long as it works.
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