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100% agree, it's so refreshing to finally get a device that does it's best to be both a great out of the box experience but also respectful the user, reminds me
by worble 4y ago
100% agree, it's so refreshing to finally get a device that does it's best to be both a great out of the box experience but also respectful the user, reminds me of the olden days of computing, despite what gnome and apple proclaiming such a goal is impossible.
It's also kind of sad this only really exists because Valve are wholly independent and have "fuck you" levels of money.
- guhidalg 4y agoAnother view point: if you want to compete in the big leagues, you need to have "fuck you" levels of money. You can be happy building indie games for desktops as a career, but if you want to compete with Nintendo, Sony, and Meta then you need to take out your checkbook and write lots of zeros. So stop trying to compete with them if you don't have the capital! Build great games that aren't AAA-style FPS, BR, Minecraft/CoD/Halo clones.
- dmonitor 4y agoThis is about hardware, not games
- sublinear 4y agoYup. I'm pretty sure the indie games we all know about made good money. Enough to have continued growing a business without copying any AAA games and avoiding getting bought out or aped. The dev(s) just chose not to go that route. It makes a lot of sense why not. They don't want to betray their audience and they want to keep having fun making games. Success is not necessarily "competing" with the big companies. There's always room for more types of games.
- account42 4y ago> Yup. I'm pretty sure the indie games we all know about made good money. Enough to have continued growing a business without copying any AAA games and avoiding getting bought out or aped. That is only true if you have't heard about most indies. The are plenty of great indie games that just didn't manage the marketing gamble and faded into obscurity without much financial success or even making a loss, especially when you consider the developer's opportunity cost. Then there are even more where the developers gave it their best for years but ultimately failed, either releasing a mediocre game or nothing at all. Indie game dev is absolutely not something that you should be getting into when your primary interest is financial return. The ones that make it big are a tiny minority.
- moojacob 4y ago> despite what gnome and apple proclaiming such a goal is impossible. GNOME? The great out the box experience... that also allows power users to deeply customize it? It is dishonest to lap GNOME (extremely popular free software) in with Apple (king of proprietary software).
- skeletal88 4y agoGnome and customise? The DE that hates giving users any options to change stuff because they (Gnome) knows best?
- 2III7 4y agoThat is why there is the Gnome Tweak tool and Gnome extensions. You get a great out-of-the-box experience for regular users and good customizability for advanced users. If you want extreme customizability just don't use Gnome. IMO Gnome gets way too much unwarranted critique here.
- JohnFen 4y agoI don't use Gnome because I find its out-of-the-box experience to be pretty horrible. I couldn't figure out how to fix it, and didn't know about these tools. But it's fine, I'm really happy with the DE I use.
- wkat4242 4y agoThe problem with fixing all its problems with extensions is that they aren't always updated in time for new releases. And the tweak tool, sure but really the options in there should have been standard settings from the start. This is the core problem with this product.
- anticensor 4y agoSadly, the settings app crashes if you choose the performance power profile... Tweak tool, otoh, works fine.
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- scns 4y agoSince being a pessimst turned optimist (by years of working) i'd replace "sad this only really" with "great this". Sorry for being obnoxiously posive.