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  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlPro Linux hacking
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    13 days ago

    I remember watching the first episode and he brought up a terminal and thinking “here we go” then…“holy shit… Those are real commands”

    That and the explanations I was ready to laugh at for being terrible, then… Wait, no, those actually make sense



  • That sounds pretty bad, but 1) the article is 3 and a half years old (not that big of a deal really, but an update on the current status would be useful at this point), and 2) I see plenty of commits to all five of their pubic facing repos.

    I’m not saying they’re wrong…I’m not going to presume to understand it better than them… But I’m not seeing how that translates to them hiding things from public view, or if they were that they’re still doing so. If you’re aware of something I’m missing there, I’m very much interested in hearing about it.

    But yes, trust should not be implicit, it should be verified.




  • What they said, exactly:

    If that happens on Steam, I can reasonably expect a refund if it was previously Verified, and because of the verification system, they also have an incentive not to break compatibility.

    Emphasis mine.

    They didn’t say it won’t happen. They said they have far more confidence that it’ll be much less likely to happen. And that they have a reasonable expectation of refund if the developer pulls that.

    There are no guarantees here, but Valve has put a lot of time and effort into making Linux games work, and Epic has not. No, they can’t stop developers from pulling those stunts, but they’re no more happy about it than we are and, from everything I’ve been seeing, are actively working on getting developers to stop doing that.

    Also, the anticheat excuse is mostly a lie, the ones Destiny 2, Rust, and Apex Legends use are compatible with Linux, and just require, as I understand it, checking a box and including a file in a specific spot, so those are just outright anti Linux for the sake of hating Linux and Linux gamers.