Ehh not shit. Just different.

Also really depends on the distro you want to go with.

Tried a few different ones, but mostly they suffered from the thing linux has suffered since i first tried it 20 years ago - poor hardware support

That and Steam linux support... just isn't there yet

Better than it was the last time i tried it, but still not there yet

ive been using linux so long i made my own distro back in the slackware days. i dont use it because i have to use speech recognition software and it behaves better on windows

To be fair, most computer users aren’t running Linux.

dont use it at home*

that and the unholy hell which is current desktop offerings. what a damn mess

one of those times 'everyone doing their own thing' just hurts the platform

I found it frustrating as the last thing I wanted to do after a day at work is come home and have to fuck around trying to build drivers and edit config files

THat's very much a thing for teenagers and bright eyed young idealists like Coolitic

not really, my girlfriend is computer illiterate, i built her a desktop machine, she just uses firefox and some awful flash games

it just works

everyone doing their own thing hurting the platform, you say?

yes, that can be a thing

kinda like everyone making their own gaming launcher to make their titles exclusive and unnecessarily difficult to obtain and manage, all the while running continuously in the background to mine data?

golly gee if only there was some platform that took a relatively hands-off approach as a game vendor and aggregate

thats the worst analogy ive seen this week

But it applies all the same.

you're likening applications to frameworks that support applications

You say that as if it can't be applicable.

it isn't even in the same ballpark.

But it is

no it isnt, you dont need game 'launchers' at all, you just require a way to download the installer. now if someone decided to write their own html version and you needed a special vendor specific browser to download it, then you'd have an analogy to work with. that isnt what i suggested or anyone would do though in the case of steam

and its a million miles away from basic shit like "oh, my entire windowing toolkit doesn't work"

Sure you don't *need* them, but in this current age of PC gaming, they are necessary to actually play said games.

Often times you can't play games without some form of DRM, which is bundled in that launcher.

I'm not talking about the ideal.

I mean realistically.

Steam is like a water or electric company. Having 5 or 6 different water companies in a moderately sized town will only serve to confuse and agitate the average consumer. They sell a product, a commodity, in this case water. The only thing they do different is the methods and the chemicals used to treat the water. Online vendors sell games to play. They might have different methods of achieve that goal but at the end of the day, a copy of For Honor sold on steam, is just as playable as a copy sold from Ubisoft or EA or whoever the fuck sells it.

only ones you bought via that proprietry delivery system. you can still buy games on dvd. you can still buy software from the makers on shop sites, etc. is steam your entire gaming life or something? its the only way you could come up with such a myopic analogy

definitely strayed into 'lol whatever', ill get back to my game

It's not my entire life, no.

But it certainly is the most dominant presence in my gaming career.

And frankly as much as I hate a single company having a monopoly on the market like they do, it's kind of necessary to be feasible. Lest you have to go through the hassle of swimming through bookmarks to get updated versions of games or some other method to get updated, especially if those games don't include a launcher in the install (a game launcher, not the storefront). All I'm saying is that steam brings convenience to the table, and just like Eccles doesnt want to fuck with Linux all night long, I don't want to have to spend all night manually installing updates for the games I want to play every time Christmas comes around.

Only beef I had with Steam was their EOL methodology. As a time-poor boomer and sperg, it should be obvious to understand why. It's a shame you and Coolitic were so antagonistic

But I still use Steam, and am reasonably content with it

Yeah forgive me for that.

I sometimes fly off the rails. It isn't healthy for me

I'm sorry for shoving a EULA up your anus