• funkajunk@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Buy an OEM key next time, I’ve never spent more than 20 bucks for Pro.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, I mostly use Linux. Unfortunately, certain games only run on Windows and you’re stuck using it if you want to play those titles.

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          7 months ago

          Ah, anti-cheat problems? Feels like those are nearly the only ones that won’t play nice with Proton nowadays

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            7 months ago

            Some work surprisingly well. Elden ring for example. The funny thing is when I close Elden ring in windows, the anti cheat splash page stays and I need to close it from task manager. In Linux it just closes by itself as it should.

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          Pretty much only ones that use an invasive, kernel-level anticheat. I don’t want that on my system regardless.

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        7 months ago

        Microsoft owns github. I wonder if there’s going to be a purge of this kind of software from the platform coming down the pike.

        I’m sure if they did that it would spark a mass exodus and the development of a viable alternative, but I’ve never seen those kinds of inevitable consequences stop a corporation from enshittifying.

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          There are viable alternatives to GitHub already, especially if you need to host your own code.

          Gitlab comes to mind.

          Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub

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            7 months ago

            Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub

            Ah. That’s the “embrace” phase.

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              Luckily for us their are viable alternates out there already. If GitHub disappeared we’d have alternates.

              Git itself is not owned by Microsoft.

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            It’s impossible to imagine that they haven’t talked about nixxing something like Microsoft Activation Scripts though.

            The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These things happen over the course of many years. They haven’t turned it to shit yet, but it’s basically inevitable isn’t it?

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              Microsoft is a services company anymore.

              You pirating their desktop operating system as an end user is something they don’t care a lot about if we’re being honest.

              Inevitable, idk. Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t trust them but they’ve acted in good faith so far as it pertains to GitHub.

              If they enshittify they have competitors.

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                “good faith” is a human concept. Corporations aren’t people, they don’t act in any faith. They haven’t yet fucked it up, but that means literally nothing. Trust is an irrelevant concept here.

                All it takes is a bad quarter, a new exec wants to prove their worth, a news article makes Microsoft look bad for hosting piracy software. Anything could trigger the change. Whatever or whoever is stopping them from making this mistake isn’t going to be around forever.

                Sure, they don’t rely on consumer sales, but that creates a contradiction. They have an anti-piracy system, so they nominally care about it. That creates tension that will never be resolved in favour of piracy. They will eventually crack down against their own interests.

                I don’t even know why you’d argue about this. Maybe lightning will strike on this issue and it won’t get removed, but if it makes a difference to you you’re better off assuming it will happen.

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                  Sure. You’re right. It could get worse at any time. Great talk.

                  To answer your question as to why I’d argue, I didn’t realize you were having an argument.

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                    7 months ago

                    Oh yeah, you don’t disagree with anything I’m saying but I’m getting a lone downvote on every comment you reply to.

                    Congrats on being so above it all.

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        7 months ago

        Haha, I didn’t see your comment until now, but I already knew about that and shared the link with another user.