Because they don’t have to. This quarterly report is good! Copilot use is up (because it was shoved into yet another app) and costs are down (because they layed even more people off). Businesses are locked in for the near future, so sales remain high.
It doesn’t matter desktop Linux use drastically increased. That doesn’t affect this quarter. This quarter is all about cutting costs and pushing AI.
Yeah, it sucks. Windows used to be dependable and solid, the whole point of the OS was IT JUST WORKS. They had some downturns in the past (Vista, 8) but you could just skip those. XP, 7, etc. Now though? There is no skipping 11, not if you want security updates. They could have made Copilot it’s own app that you can ignore, but no, even notepad needs AI for some reason. The start menu has ads, the notification center has ads.
Finally pushed me to switch to Mint this past year. My SO followed too. Been happier with it. Feels like I’m in control of the OS again, and it is there to do what I wish. Never going back.
I think they did 3D sonic better than Sega did!
Currently happily using Heroic to manage GOG games. But, I still welcome GOG putting in effort to make it a smooth experience.
You don’t need GOG galaxy to install and run GOG games. In fact you shouldn’t if you care about keeping your games.
Disagree. The fewer barriers to using a game the better. GOG offers full DRM free downloads regardless of Galaxy existing.
Call their customer support. I realize they don’t publish a number, but you can often go in a round about way through any phone number they have. Any time you hit a computer voice, ask for an agent or mash 0. You are going to lose hours of your life doing this though.
The real suggestion: Stop giving Ubisoft money, cut your losses, and use a storefont that doesn’t actively hate you, like Steam and GOG.
Yeah, you need to install the Heroic launcher. Download the game, then in steam, add it as a non-steam game. This will let you access it from the nice UI.
And yet, they still beat out their competitors on this front.
Every other platform is simply worse. The only one who even tries to be better is GOG, of which they do a good job for DRM free, which gets sales from me.
My question to you is: why would anybody buy something other than on those two platforms? There is not a single advantage to Epic’s or Amazon’s game store I can think of. They don’t have good Linux support, they don’t have a good review system, they don’t have forums, they don’t have mod delivery systems, they don’t have any better sales, they don’t have family sharing, they don’t have in-home streaming.
Edit: And don’t get me started on the Microsoft store…
Every time I logged into an account, I swapped it to my proton address. Very quickly everything I use was swapped over. Anything left was just junk anyway.
Not good for: Tasks requiring human judgement or design decisions
So, like 99% of programming after you have been a professional programmer for longer than a year…
Was going to say, what will happen next month is he will be broke.
That is one of the really nice things about the Steam Deck. It gives companies something to target. And once you have a Steam Deck app, well, you already have a Linux app, might as well release it as such.
The Steam Machine will do the same thing.
no feeling like other people have
Most people don’t really have much of a feeling there either. You just are. If you are cool with who you are, then there is nothing to worry about.
Don’t overthink it.
It’s very weird that Linux is broken up into Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Linux (non-WSL), Fedora, etc, etc. but none of the other OSes are. Example: Windows isn’t broken into Server 2022, Server 2025, Windows 10 home, Windows 10 iot, Windows 10 S, etc, etc.
It’s very hard to tell what the total numbers are as you can’t just add these together, since an indivdual might use several.
Damn, 20 seasons just since Aug 2023.
Honestly, I had forgotten Overwatch 2 was a game that existed. Whole thing was a shitshow on launch and have yet to feel the desire to play it.
OpenAI put in an order for 40% of RAM supply at two of the three companies that make RAM.
This is most certainly a supply/demand issue. See linked article for more details.
Pretty much. Gold is a time-tested store of value. But it is not a solid investment. (stores of value and investments are not the same thing)
Gold is a solid store of value. That’s about it. It isn’t a terribly good investment as it just doesn’t gain value very fast compared to inflation. But, as I said, it is a solid store of value, so if that is what you are looking for, it isn’t a bad option.
If you want to invest, you are better off with index funds held over the long term.
invested a lot in gold under the belief that in the event of like complete societal collapse
If that happens, a better investment is to make yourself as self-sufficient as possible. Have a way to generate power (solar + batteries), acquire water (well water), sewage (leech field), stored food (just extra cans of food you normally eat), acquire food (a rifle and somewhere deer exist), security (that same rifle).
None of that is unreasonably expensive or hard to get. But all of those are what you would want if you are worried about societal collapse.
Well, they won’t be doing any invading for awhile, or ever. Being submerged in winter is lethal without an extremely timely heat source to warm you back up.
A memorable short story: https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/to-build-a-fire