Same “logic” that expects me to watch ads for a streaming service I pay for at home.
I can get ads for free, capitalists. You’re not even playing your own game anymore. You’re playing some bullshit home version and hoping we don’t see the difference.
In general, I actively try not to go to the doctor. I would need to be very sick to do so. It is expensive – even though I have insurance.
Being able to see your actual performance versus your framegen performance is really quite cool.
Nice. Saves a step.
Now I wish there were a way to force Proton games to run in Gamescope. I usually add it as a launch option because it makes some games play nicer with the window manager.
I know it can be done with steamtinkerlaunch, but that is still kind of a workaround.
by hollowing out its tax base
As if the wealthy pay taxes. GTFO with that BS.
Here’s something a lot of folks supporting the tariffs as some bass-ackwards way of returning manufacturing to the US don’t understand: in business, uncertainty is even worse than higher costs. Even if you end up paying a little more, it’s worth it if that payment gets you stability.
Trump’s instability in policy easily outweighs any benefits – and that’s assuming there were ever any benefits at all.
Those Firefox figures are abysmal. Argh.
I bet breaking the giant up into much smaller pieces would be a more efficient way to make them do less evil
Because expensive headphones tend to have drivers with higher impedance, meaning they produce less volume at the same current versus a lower impedance set.
That’s true for wired headphones, at least. For anything wireless, they have a secondary amplifier not in your phone, so then the phone really really has no idea.
In case anyone is curious what a screwworm infection can do to, say, a human…
These things are terrifying. Watch at your own peril.
Well now… TIL!
I mean, $100 bucks at Best Buy is like $35 at actual market prices. I’d need at least a $200 gift card.
Fair – what I meant was more about the Teams binary kind of not being needed at all (you can use the web version without it). So having a Linux binary explicitly just seems a little weird, marketing aside.
I think MS assumes no one will use it. But having Linux builds of some of their software enhances their “MS loves Linux” marketing.
Teams is another example.
Kicad is up there with the paid options for electronic schematic drafting / PCB design. I don’t use a lot of KDE stuff since I also don’t use KDE, but Kicad is absolutely essential for me.
Actual journalists would have the easiest time in this timeline
Methodological issues aside, I don’t find this result surprising at all. I expect this result as someone who has gamed exclusively on Linux for years now.
On the Valve side, SteamOS is about as close to a purpose-built gaming OS as you’re going to get. The Proton compatibility layer works so well that some games perform better on Linux than on Windows – I assume this must be due to unnecessary Windows overhead, but can only really speak to the result.
Nitty gritty aside, I think the key issue holding back Linux gaming now is adoption. It’s free. If you haven’t tried it, try it.
In my experience as a Linux-only gamer for a few years now, equal performance is pretty easy most times. Sometimes you even get better performance on Linux than on Windows – this was the case of Elden Ring on release, for example.
Now I’m definitely sticking with LaTeX. Thanks.
My 8BitDo Pro 2 has been my go-to controller for months… But it already worked with Steam.
I am hoping this means I can map the few extra buttons that aren’t on an Xbox controller.