I’ve been using both for a good while by now, Linux is good but damn I know that’s a sacrilege but I still like Windows.

Granted, I heavily customized my Windows install, made all the adjustments I wanted and threw out most of the nagging garbage and my locked down work computer is definitely worse.

Windows just… works most of the time, and it’s fluent and does what I want.

At the end of the day, most of the direct user interaction with an OS “directly” is task bar, start menu and file manager. And for all of these things, there’s a lot that annoys me on Linux. In Windows, I’m very happy.

Just to give one example. I like the individual entries in the taskbar to fill the entire width dynamically. If there’s one entry, it fills the entire taskbar, you get what I mean. On Windows, that’s a registry tweak. On KDE, that’s basically impossible. Like, I’m sure somewhere in the source code for the panel there’s a way to rewrite that, but frankly, that’s close enough to “basically impossible” for me.

It’s funny that this “slightly different viewpoint” when pressed for details basically always ends up being hardcore racism, homophobia or other great things.

We’ve seen this spiel a few times, companies want to move to the cloud and then don’t because it’s ridiculous and plenty of things are just fine on local machines.

I don’t lend this any more credence than all the “we’ll all be gaming in the cloud in 10 years” crap when stuff like GeForce Now was popping up.

I don’t think that always holds water, some games are just made to be played with others. Nobody is going to accuse Counter-Strike of being bad just because playing against bots isn’t the most thrilling experience. But for games like Borderlands definitely. Point being, the logic goes it’s bad and only saved by playing with friends doesn’t stop it from being a bad game, not that a game is bad just because it’s more fun with friends.

You don’t die in one hit to most things unless you run with very low health and armor. That’s a solvable problem.

And while sometimes bonfires can be a bit far apart, especially in the earlier games, people also seem to forget that you can literally just run past enemies. That said, I think it’s part of the journey and the struggle. Dark Souls is basically a rythm game in a way and that takes experience. Basically, you don’t need to kill everything but it’s good exercise.

Also there has always been an “easy mode”, cheesy build and multiplayer. If you think the game is too hard, play different.

My best guess would be that the engine just has vast amounts of technical debt. Skyrim (pre-LE at least) had a savegame corruption bug that has been around since Morrowind. And while I’m sure they have rewritten huge parts of the engine over the decades it’s not rare to see bugs persist over generations, and modders complaining loudly about it. The engine has never been great about asset streaming either so no surprise here.

Dang, my thing was basically collecting cars and modifying them, only real reason to still play this. So I very much cars about all cars, even the “crappy” ones.

They could have just made another store to sell all the old stuff. Would still “streamline” things and take nothing away.

This looks really cool. SupCom wasn’t quite the same for me so I’ll have to check this out.

This is just blatant “fuck your concerns it will blow over anyway”.

It’s basically the “secret” behind Windows compatibility and part of the reason ReactOS takes so long to develop.

I just wrote a post on duck game over here:

https://feddit.de/comment/222116

Play duck game!

Everyone should know Duck Game. Duck Game is great.

It’s kind of a 2d sidescroller where you fight each other as ducks with different weapons from pistols to grenades, sledgehammers and laser guns. You can wear hats, there’s tons of content and even more made by the community and it’s very easy to pick up. Supports up to four people, works great on a TV with controllers and is a ton of fun.

Also, there’s a quack button and you’re obligated to quack as much as possible.

And it’s usually really cheap on steam.

Sometimes specific input method simply work better, there’s a reason most shooters on consoles have heaps of aim assist, those are inherently easier to play with a mouse, and those souls games with a controller.

Exactly. They just get mad because their hate fuelled opinions get shat on.

I mean, they aren’t treated well by other users, they don’t deserve to be and shouldn’t be. Paradox of tolerance and all that. They have their echo chamber and leaving it means a bad time. They are still treated well by the platform itself.

Yeah I don’t get it either. I don’t even get the nostalgia aspect, there are just so many new Pokémon that I feel they completely drown out the ones I grew up with, the first like 250 iirc, I have no desire whatsoever to play the new games.

But I suppose it’s still very popular with kids all around the world as well so there’s that.

That’s a very common complaint for the last, hell I don’t even know, 20 games or whatever.

Yeah me too. I don’t know if the new one is any better but BotW just wasn’t very fun, but I’m also not the biggest fan of these sorts of super “empty” explory games.

No wonder you don’t like the feel of the combat. It’s just not something that really works without a controller, nothing you can really do about it, besides using a controller.

Yeah basically. It’s a loot shooter, it’s very fun in co-op but not good enough to carry itself in singleplayer.