3/2/2023 0 Comments Ps3 media server ps4![]() ![]() Imagine if the can of soda I'm drinking could only be used as a drink. We'd never stand for arbitrary restrictions on other everyday items. I'm offended by having a computer sitting right there that can't be used to do some task that it might otherwise be capable of. Yes it was advertised as a gaming console, yes it came with some games installed and it's very good at that, but it's also a whole-ass computer with the potential to do whole-ass computer things. I pay for the power that lights it up, I pay for the network it connects to, I get to say what it does and when and how. Not to Nintendo, not to Sony, not to you, and not to a court of law. I shouldn't have to justify what I do with it after that. ![]() I have to say it but the last years linus-linux challenge needs to be appreciated and we need to do more tests like these and keep fixing those small and big issues.īecause I bought the hardware, end of story. ![]() unless there is a hardware issue, out of the box the system works. I have installed windows 7 thousands of times, it always works. i am a full time linux user so i am a part of this community but its not prime-time ready yet. the problem is, if i cannot set up the machine in say half an hour without any tinkering, that is a win and i expect someone else to follow the on-screen commands but we do have a lot to cover and that is not in a bad way. Long story short, the printer is still not installed on that machine, it works but i had to install some alternate software like system monitors instead of supplied ones.ĭunno, maybe that one was a dud but i definitely feel the pain points as are being described across the spectrum. Like memory leaks and printers wont install because apparently sane-devel cannot be found by HP install utility. Last week i installed the same OS on an old machine for a relative, on a "fresh SSD" so no dual boot nonsense and it had problems right out of the box. i have been running debian derivative on my machine for like years now and and only had to reinstall once because i fucked up a driver install. Two very different companies with two very different histories of deal making with game publishers having latitude to do two very different styles of hardware control. I'm happy that Valve isn't locking down Deck to customization in anticipation of shifting winds to get folks to target the platform, but we really can't call this an apples-to-apples comparison. As a result, they can much more easily advocate for Right to Repair, modding, software customization, the works, because their existing market dominance as the biggest PC games distributor gives them that weight to throw around. Valve isn't incentivized to lock down the Deck any more than a PC is locked down, which is to say not very much at all. Valve took their distribution platform, which already runs in lawless country on the largely unrestricted platform of PCs, and made a console experience for that with Steam Deck. This puts the game publisher and the console manufacturer on the same team in ensuring that sales are protected, and as such decisions are made to tightly control what software can run on these otherwise incredibly powerful, compact machines.ĭo want to clarify, I personally don't think it's the right play overall, but it's the play Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have been making for years. Most consoles are sold at a loss, with revenue being made up largely through title sales. ![]() Part of the value proposition with releasing on a console is that the platform provides a reasonable duty to protect sales, and they incentivize that themselves by the sales structure. Something that I don't think folks consider the perspective of is that the big console manufacturers often act in the same vein that third party DRM/Anti-Tamper firms like Denuvo do in establishing relationships with publishers. ![]()
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