Am I? Proof? Srsly, it you have some hard fact’s (beside a single ruling some years ago because of geo blocked keys), let me know.

I bought my games on Humble, and GOG for a very long time. Since humble offers specific packages now only through a fucking Windows only Launcher and GOG likewise, I am FORCED to use steam…

But I prefer DRM free content.

That does not change the fact that I think valve is the most consumer friendly company on the market currently.

But this does not make me a fanboy or someone who must have steam the the good guy

That was Charlie. He was a good boy. Died a year ago :( still muss him

Ok, so answering after reading the first line and the again you are to young you have no ideas.

Even if I was that young, that is just a stupid line of argument.

But, considering the fact that I am in IT for over 20 years now, it is just hilarious.

Just for reference, the first picture with me and a PC on it. Maybe you can calculate my age from this…

Downloading capacities where a major issue. Distribution required still discs. Doom was published 1995, not 2005.

Dwarf Fortress and cave story where “small games” considering the total binary size. But, games started to take up multiple hundred megabytes, leading to massiv traffic costs back in the day. I was working my first it job at this time. At a hosting company. Having 100GB of downloads a month was rare, and the price for it was massive.

Dude, I wish I would be under 40 again, but I am not.

Since you’re clearly too young. I’ll give you a history lesson.

I am clearly not to young, let me chime in.

20 years ago, publishers had the full Control. Indie publishing was not possible.

The big studios controlled what you can play, and on wahr price. They took a big big share of the profits.

Now, with platform like Steam, self publishing is a thing, and more.

Yes, of course they tried to get some traction on steam. Epic games, Sony PlayStation, Xbox, all do exclusivity deals!

Yes, valve takes 30% of every transaction on Steam. Publishers take up to 60% … And so you play games published by auch publishers? Yes? And you don’t feel bad about yourself?

Yes Steam is a defacto monopoly. But not through the actions of Valve but through the actions of it competitors.

Valve does not behave like a monopoly, and it takes its money to improve gaming for all.

I would get it if someone here would be really simping for Gabe. But may I remind you all, this is a shitposting community and this is a meme.

If not for Valve and their openness towards Linux, Microsoft would long have followed Apple and made a walled garden out of Windows.

If you want to make sure that gaming is not getting a walled of eco system be Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, that you need Valve.

Just look at that release: NO AI bullshit, no walled garden, no vendor locking. No locked bootloader’s, repairability and consumer rights are in the focus.

If course you can point out that this is a profit oriented company and everything they do, they do to make money. And I would not argue with that.

But this? What is this? Why?

You know, Valves decision years ago investing into the Linux eco system and literally pumping millions of dollars into open source development, contributing, hiring the sole maintainers of stuff like dxvk and more.

This brought Linux and especially the Linux desktop a lot further than without it.

We all gained through it.

And those new products are, like your Fairphone, designed with repairability and consumer rights in mind.

You talk like Fairphone does earn nothing in their phone’s and their are not in it for the money. Well, bad news. They made 54.400.000€ euro net profit last year.

So, go and stick your pseudo elitist behavior up your ass

You are more the “the Glas is half empty” kinda person, aren’t you?

Finally, some benefits for all of us. How many CO2 is not getting blown into the air!

There is currently one major Usecase that does not work yet with Wayland. Multiwindow positioning through the application.

In science, and some stuff like KICaf or Gimp use this feature excessively. And as someones that relies on KiCad, it is a fucking pain.

But, solutions are being discussed and implementations will follow

Then, build your own replacement! If it is do dinpley, fork Wayland, add what you need.

Dude, I am using Linux since 25 years.

Just because you like it so much does not mean that anybody will maintain Xorg for you. Feel free to do it yourself.

I chose Wayland. Not because security, but because I have a primary HDR ultrawide and an old secondary monitor.

Running variable refreshrate does not work with this configuration on Xorg.

HDR does not exist in Xorg.

And never will be.

Just keep in complaining just because someone points out that Xorg is dead.

Xorg is dead! That is not gaslighting, this is a fact

If people would actually READ articles instead of just looking at the headline and pictures.

And if people would believe articles that do not reflect their view, then and only then, they could do that job

Social Media was a mistake.

I agree. Just as a little reminder. Methadone was initially invented by literal Nazis. It was designed to Combat Opium shortage in field hospitals.

Nobody would say: hey, let us not use this extremely helpful drug because Nazis contributed a lot to it.

On the other side: I would never give a Nazi company money to produce it. Two different scenarios