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Oh, so you know how to source something and still refuse to back your claim that Linux is more secure.

Everyone’s experience is different. It’s how I remember it. -But I consulted an AI, and it agrees with you. -Thanks for the insight!

Yes, first developed by Philip “doitsujin” Rebohle. It’s a shame that Linux evangelists constantly praise Valve / Proton when the groundwork was laid out by others over decades.

It’s no wonder there’s a large history of FOSS developers quitting and selling out.

Good for you, but how much playing do you do vs fiddling with the OS? I got far enough to see texture issues, frame timing issues making games unbeatable half way through, issues with rhythm games, and anti-cheat issues. The main reason to even PC game is for mods, and modding sucks on linux.

What would the world would be like if Linux users used a search or co-pilot.

Not everyone uses Steam, and Steam does a lot of stuff that Proton does not.

Gaming on Linux wasn’t really that much worse back then. This is just reaction to Proton propaganda. Proton didn’t even fix the frame timing issues that caused rhythm games to be near unplayable or racing games with time trials to be unbeatable (imagine spending hours on an impossible to beat track). -Wine devs fixed that so very recently that many probably aren’t even on that fix yet!

And Microsoft is constantly coming out with newer technologies that Linux will never keep up with or come out with on their own from ‘volunteers’.

If you want to play modern games, there’s no reason to not use Windows. There are reasons to not use Linux.

I would love it if LiGNUts could use a search engine. -But nah, they’ll wait hours and lean on others for an answer they could obtain in seconds. “cite your source” -Is the internet not at your fingertips?

Obviously not, and no one with a job and life is completing that many modern games that quickly.

Compared to what? You cannot honestly argue that Linux has better security. It’s not even a priority of Torvalds and he gets angry about too much security infringing on userspace. Everyone also knows BSD is more secure by default. We’re also talking just the kernel with Linux. Add all the ‘hobby’ type garbage that comes with DEs and you’re no longer using a kernel as your propaganda. Windows has improved vastly since the 90s when people just played mild pranks and no one was banking online.

Windows has a lot more security than Linux (which lags). Every time Windows comes out with a new technology like secure boot, Linux users will scoff and down-play it until they catch up. And this happens with more than just security.

Also, Linux has way too many toolkits. If you want all the best apps; you need to add many whole toolkits which dramatically change the footprint. All new icons, dependencies, fonts, etc. Initial installs make a great first impression, and the rest is blamed on ‘your fault’, ‘pebkac’, ‘skill issue’. -Because it’s a religion.

Valve does it: It’s ok. Sony does it: Fuck Sony!

Some severe cope you have here. I only tend to play 1 or 2 games at most in any time frame. -Maybe 3-6 a year. When one of those doesn’t play on Linux, that’s a huge impact on my view of Linux. -But that’s minor compared to the games that couldn’t be completed halfway through due to frame timing issues. Also, pacing games that experienced input lag. It’s worse to be stuck with a game broken midway on a shitty limited OS than to just have it not play to begin with.

Maybe if you played games enough to experience problems instead of constantly having to fix your Linux; you’d see these things.

Without Windows you wouldn’t have Windows gaming. The Linux Kernel is unfavorable to game developers because of its instabilities (ABI/API) -and that’s not counting all the fragmentation after the fact. Linux users are cheap (more likely to pirate), more likely to cheat in online games, more likely to review bomb over stupid things, and more likely to demand refunds. -They don’t even develop for Mac ffs, and they have far more market share than Linux. Developers would migrate fully to consoles and full stack devices (like phones, Haiku, Mac, iPhone).

Windows market share will decline because normal people are moving to devices. A smart phone is far safer to do banking on, especially compared to Linux. The change in % (if real) will simply be a decline in Windows, not an increase in Desktop Linux adoption.

Proton isn’t solving those problems. What you’re experiencing is Valve quietly patching, shimming, overriding and replacing broken Linux code for Steam. (Not ‘helping’ Linux: they’re helping themselves)

It’s a disservice to Windows users to also charge them 30% when they bend over backwards coddling Linux gamers who are more likely to complain, review bomb, and pirate. -But they make it up in the word-of-mouth sales (the vocal minority) that saved that Steam Deck from being the total disaster it should’ve been.

Valve is helping to destroy native Linux gaming, and the relationship they have with the Linux evangelists is fragile.

Sorry, I’m not available.

Skill issue

11 is fine. I don’t miss XP, 7,or 10 at all. 11 is an upgrade.

If you continue wasting your opportunity here, I’ll just block you here too. I’m not into wasting time.