I don’t see how RIF could potentially confuse anyone at all. WP Engine, maybe, but I’m not convinced. I mean, the US trademark office did allow the latter to be trademarked.

Valve is the city. Indie devs can easily use itch.io or GOG instead.

Are you saying that creating drastic usability improvements don’t involve work or effort? You’d rather get a CPU 2 generations newer instead of a federated social media platform?

I just heard of Frog today, and I don’t really like it. It just seems like bypassing review. I like the competing proposal of experimental wayland protocols (merged into repository as “experimental” and iterative if 2 weeks pass without anyone opposing) much better.

Well, not all indie games become that popular.

I agree, but could you elaborate on the indie dev part? Why would they have distribution on PlayStation/Xbox?

The point was “People more readily appreciate things that obviously directly affect them.” The only ways that directly affects users are improved execution times and footprints that users won’t notice. So no, we should not all praise MS and IBM like we praise Valve, especially when Valve also contributes to the Linux kernel.

We hate rent seeking. We’ll hate Steam if they raise the profit margin. We’re not talking about rent gouging. Piv’s point is that large publishers dominate the landscape and won’t bulge their prices. This is compounded by Steam’s anticompetitive clause against having a lower price on other platforms. That part is bad. However, the washing machine is well oiled and speedy. Epic’s is the clunky one, unfortunately. The only Steam alternative I’ll happily use is GOG and itch.io, where indies can still publish.

I’m interested, yet that is also obviously unsearchable.

That may have been earlier than Steam’s DRM. Nowadays you need to copy a steam emulator (a few DLLs) into the executables folder as well before sharing.

I’m pretty sure the main selling point was being cheaper.

Userspace affects users much more. I value getting Wayland color management support much more than the following kernel gobblygook lifted straight from https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges:

Summary: This release includes suppor for x86 FRED, which is a new way of transitioning between CPU ring privileves; it also includes support for creating pidfds for threads; support for BPF arenas, which is a sparse shared memory region between the BPF programs and user space; and BPF tokens, which allow delegating functionality to less privileged programs; host support for AMD Secure Nested Paging; support for weighted interleaveing memory policies; support for a FUSE passthrough mode that makes regular file I/O faster; and a new device mapper VDO deduplication target.

So now you’re pro landlord rent gouging?

No, they’re anti Starbucks price gouging. It’s like all those companies taking advantage of a little inflation to drastically increase retail prices.

It might be old and clunky and never repaired

It’s the opposite.

No.

Anyone is free to access purchases given the user chooses to give that info, they just don’t. Skill izzue

…wait, what does it say about EA?

IDK then. spinning up an entire game engine just to do what Electron does seems unbelievably wasteful though.

Not being able to transfer purchases seems like an other-platforms problem. Steam has authenticated API for users’ game libraries.

Sure, a small disclaimer wouldn’t, and a large, prominent, tobacco-style disclaimer wouldn’t get rid of everything but will make a dent. Anything else? Where is the endorsement? Where is the modification?

To be fair, Epic Store was marred by exclusives and having way less features back then. Even now, their (Electron) launcher boots up way slower than (CEF) Steam, and their sales are way worse.

While I agree with the politics part (especially the notorious suspend-then-hibernate thing), I do see why a lot of devs would ask for systemd-init: to just bundle 1 kind of service instead of a gazillion. Same thing with Flatpak and not needing to build a gazillion binaries for every distro that hasn’t packaged you, even though FLatpak’s sandboxing away from native libraries is something I just don’t like.