Yarny

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[–] Yarny@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What makes you so upset over people "attacking" the AAA industry? Most of the big AAA players release literal garbage, games filled with anti-consumer practices. Not only do they tend to release "unfinished" like No Mans Sky did, but they also have DRM, microtransactions, third party launchers + accounts that take your data. Who cares if they get attacked? I honestly wish people would do more.

I don't really understand what it is you have a problem with.

[–] Yarny@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

"and Hello Games never actually apologized for lying." Good. I don't want a corporate apology. Apologies from companies literally mean nothing. What matters is your actions. They have updated the game, for free, and still have no microtransactions. No third party launcher or account needed. Can be played offline. You buy the game, you get the game. That is RARE these days.

Should they have released the game in the first place? No. If you don't support that, then don't buy it. I don't really like that, so I bought it on sale for like $30 instead of its full price of $60, which in my opinion was worth it.

There are plenty of problems in the gaming industry right now, I think NMS's "redemption" arc is the least of your worries.

[–] Yarny@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

They are currently working on Deadlock, which me and my friends play pretty much everyday, so yea I would consider them a developer.

[–] Yarny@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I use POP!_OS. Works pretty much perfectly for me, although they just came out with a new cosmic desktop which I am not using (but looking into), so you might have a different experience than me. I have some issues like FPS in deadlock slowly degrading (I think if I use steam overlay) or sometimes games with third party launchers (like Mass Effect) just wouldn't work until I tinkered around. These aren't dealbreakers for me though. Most games work out of the box for me. If you're really worried, you can always dual boot it with windows just to be safe, that's what I did. https://ostechnix.com/dual-boot-windows-and-pop-os/ here is the guide I followed. If you don't want Pop OS, I've heard decent things of bazzite as well for gaming.

[–] Yarny@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I barely knew what linux was before I watched pewdiepies video on it a long time ago. Just knew that some people on steam would complain about games not running on it, so I never bothered to look into it, since that is basically all I use my computer for. However, over the past 2 years I have been becoming more aware of my individual footprint. Something I noticed was that I will complain about things I think are "wrong" with the world, and then not do anything about them. One of those things was Microsoft (or big tech companies in general). I hate them, yet I would be using their product/service. Literally giving money to something I don't like.

I honestly have never enjoyed learning about computers and coding, I've tried and it's never felt fun to me. I'm definitely not the "target" of linux I guess. When I turn on my computer, I just want to play some games or do homework/work with no fuss.

However, Linux is at a point to where I, someone who has no want or need to learn computers, can switch and mostly use it out of the box. So I just switched, because if I'm gonna sit here and shit on Microsoft for not doing what I think is right, then I need to stop using their product. Capitalism means as long as they make money, they aren't gonna change a damn thing.