mrbigmouth502

That applies to PC gaming in general, really. PC games haven’t had useful physical editions in about 20 years. Once Half-Life 2 started mandating online activation through Steam, all bets were off.

It goes even further back than this when you factor in CD keys. Big-name titles started requiring keys as far back as the late 90s, and some games even required them before this. Contrast this with console games, where 99% of loose copies were playable prior to 8th gen.

Not just Core Isolation (aka Memory Protection), Driver Signature Enforcement as well.

Not cracked, bypassed . That’s an important distinction.

The hypervisor bypass only works if you’re on Windows, and it opens up a huge security hole when you use it.

I haven’t watched the video, but my lukewarm take is that duopolies suck and having only two real players in the x86 CPU market has never been good. I was happy when Intel re-entered the discrete GPU market a few years ago (I say re-entered because they had the i740 cards in the 90s) because it meant we finally had a real competitor to Nvidia and AMD in that market.

I know ARM is supposed to be the CPU architecture of the future, but man, I wish we had a modern day equivalent to Cyrix or something in the x86 space. More competition is good.

The radeon driver wasn’t proprietary, just old and superseded by AMDGPU. AMD’s old proprietary driver was fglrx.

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Old Slashdot term.

It’s really undeserved, especially since the dev went out of their way to write a detailed install procedure for Bazzite. I just gave them an upvote on that comment, but I wish I gave them one sooner.

I see. I wonder, does any of this have issues on Wayland? I try to use it wherever I can for its security benefits, though I know it’s not as flexible as X11 in some cases.

Also, I don’t know where that downvote came from, but it wasn’t me. I gave you an updoot to bring you back above 0.

Is it theoretically possible for an on-screen keyboard to not need raw device access?

I’ve been wanting a better on-screen keyboard for my TV gaming box. The Steam on-screen keyboard gets cut off at the edges of the screen when I run KDE at 1.25x DPI scale.

Is there any chance that this would work as a Flatpak? The machine I want to use this on runs Bazzite, though it’d be helpful for running it on other distros too.

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I wish there were a Linux equivalent for what the Windows world had before Windows 7 went EOL, where you could have an older, stable base OS that was mostly forward-compatible with newer software.

You can sort of achieve this with Debian Stable and Flatpak, but it’s not as seamless as the forward compatibility old versions of Windows had.

Ubuntu 20.04 was the last good version. I wish it still got security updates, because I’d likely use it occasionally if it did.

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I never understood why people love Lutris so much. I’ve always found it extremely overrated, even before they started vibecoding it.

IMO, Lutris was already an overrated pile of junk before genAI became popular. It tracks that they’re vibecoding it now.

Since you haven’t mentioned it, are there any specific games you’re running into issues with? If so, are these Steam/Proton games, Wine games, native titles, or emulated games?

The whole dual control panels thing in recent versions of Windows has always annoyed me.