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  • Do you realize the difference is that a console will generally give a known quality and they usually just work without tweaking and tinkering?

    The problem with this argument is that it only applies to PCs that you buy and build from off the shelf parts like any other computer you get where everything can be different. It does not apply to a pre-built console type PC manufactured using a custom IC pre-configured operating system dedicated to run games in a console-like experience, where every single one of those models are the same, especially in a case like the steam deck where it’s made by the same manufacturer.

    But not everyone wants to do more than plug in, update, and play.

    Pretty sure you don’t need to if all you want to do is play games, a good majority of games work out of the box already. Maybe it wasn’t the case in the beginning when proton was younger (which is where this mentality comes from) but it certainly does now.

    Edit: Hmm Downvote with no response, that plus your username tells me all I need to know. Have fun.



  • I think that ignores the fact that things like Big picture mode already exist and make the experience, well basically the same as playing on console for games that have controller support or a default controller mapping (which of vast majority already do).

    If Microsoft were to shift their model to PCs and PC handhelds it’s likely they would bring their own big picture dashboard, maybe even just port the Xbox dashboard itself. So the experience would be the same, with the exception that you could jump to a Desktop mode if you wanted to (not that you actually have to, or would want to if you want that clean console experience).



  • Doesn’t surprise me, they had the crypto issues, auto whitelisting facebook trackers, now this. People just have really low standards I guess, Brave is a case of the open source piece of software that attempts to use being open-source as their reason for being good when in reality it just means they’re transparently as bad as Edge or Chrome, they just don’t require the user to understand x86 machine code and know about disassembly to figure out what they’re doing.

    At least some people read the code which probably wouldn’t happen at all if it was closed source (reading machine code is a pretty big barrier) so that’s at least better than chrome or edge (although no one is pushing Chrome or Edge as “Awesome best privacy browser unlimited money download below”).