IMO, third party exclusives isn't why PS5 dominates, it's not the primary motivator for customers. It's firstparty, Sony invests a lot in their in-house studios, which make some of the best titles. I realize this isn't news.
Microsoft understood the critical importance of firstparty when the...
My hope for the PC world is Valve finding a reason to leverage the massive work that's gone into evolving the software stack for SteamOS on the Deck, and releasing a SteamOS for general desktop use. I know they've hinted at the possibility, but they don't do stuff unless they see a big upside...
One of the freeing aspects of moving most of my systems to Linux has not been in any illusion that linux updates can't break something, but knowing that a financial incentive in an oversight vacuum isn't influencing or steering the updates. Meaning if something does break and a rollback is...
And that is a heavy lift for sure - years of accumulated code like a rubber band ball of fixes on top of fixes, tweaks and optimizations that have to be pulled apart, re-examined and refactored.
But they seem to understand they would only benefit from an open-source driver model, along with...
The "ZFS for everything" religious phenomenon has been an interesting one on the timeline of modern computing. Off-topic, but ZFS is pretty much inescapable for anyone that's tried researching improving or expanding their storage. Just about every online guide, forum...
Elon is always working an angle - usually in service to some ulterior, master of the universe type powerplay in his head. I used to like the guy - Tesla and SpaceX seemed cool, his "working for the betterment of humanity" shtick seemed genuine. But in more recent years am finding him dangerous...
From what I understand, the vast majority of freebie hoarders don't ever play the games. The game is the dopamine hit you got adding a free game to the library; after that it's forgotten about in most cases.
Not that that's a bad thing, but "bribe people to come to my party" isn't great...
I do, it's great, but respectfully, I'm not sure how it would change what I mentioned.
Two things can be simultaneously true: Epic has talented and competent developers, some of who are linux users and run their development environment atop linux; and their CEO can be short-sighted, flippant...
Sweeney will once again just hang back, let Valve and others take all the risk, make all the investment, do all the heavy machinework boring a tunnel through the linux gaming mountain. And then he'll show up and decry "Steam's outrageous and unfair linux gaming monopoly" as he announces EGS for...
An overflowing toilet is impervious to scorn. And manufactured rumors is a dedicated Industry now with teams of employees and production budgets. I used to think MLID, AdoredTV etc were causes, but no, they're symptoms. Just like the degeneration of cable news (Right and Left) catering to and...
None of these are legit. The "resellers" here are keeping 100%. Zero goes to MS. Might as well just use KMS activation at that point.
The rot in this market goes far deeper than merely opportunists capitalizating on pricing disparities between regions, and it"s not what's happening with these...
This particular case with the app store is a head scratcher and seems like overreach, but to the EU's credit, the list of actions against MS, Google, Apple, etc that actually made these megacorps bend into slightly more consumer friendly positions is pretty long.
This thread was relevant to the early days of RTX 4000 when the cards had just launched and some needed a BIOS update for the issue described in OP. If your card has been sitting 14 months, all you can do is try running it and if it doesnt need the update, the update won't proceed.
Unclear why...