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so playstation isnt a perfectly good gaming console because it doesnt run all games including those that only come for xbox? no, linux is not "perfectly usable

so playstation isnt a perfectly good gaming console because it doesnt run all games including those that only come for xbox? no, linux is not "perfectly usable" for every single task imaginable, but you know what? neither is windows, or osx, or ios, or android. People are used to all the bullshit windows forces them to do, and since they consider that the default, thats just how life is for them, and nothing they can do can change that. Ask them to use linux? they will have all sorts of things they need before "its ready", but all the shit they put up with on windows does not get to go in same category, because they already accepted that thats just life.

alkonaut 4y ago
> so playstation isnt a perfectly good gaming console because it doesnt run all games including those that only come for xbox? There are games made for xbox. On Linux, the story is sadly that you are basically trying to mostly bend games made for windows to work on Linux. It's not the same to the xbox vs playstation situation.
soylentcola 4y ago
No, but if they want to play God of War or Uncharted, they get a Playstation, even if they may really dislike some aspects of the Playstation and would prefer an Xbox. Some people (myself included among them) have hardware or use software that is either Windows-only or works much better on Windows - even if we really dislike some aspects of Windows. Doesn't mean we won't complain about the things we dislike and call out for them to be changed/improved.
pxc 4y ago
> People are used to all the bullshit windows forces them to do, and since they consider that the default, thats just how life is for them, and nothing they can do can change that. Ask them to use linux? they will have all sorts of things they need before "its ready", but all the shit they put up with on windows does not get to go in same category, because they already accepted that thats just life. This × 1,000. Everyone has a tendency to do this, but I think it's especially prevalent for choices that we make essentially 'by default'. They no longer register as tradeoffs, and are naturalized and universalized as 'facts of life'.

alkonaut 4y ago

> so playstation isnt a perfectly good gaming console because it doesnt run all games including those that only come for xbox? There are games made for xbox. On Linux, the story is sadly that you are basically trying to mostly bend games made for windows to work on Linux. It's not the same to the xbox vs playstation situation.

soylentcola 4y ago

No, but if they want to play God of War or Uncharted, they get a Playstation, even if they may really dislike some aspects of the Playstation and would prefer an Xbox. Some people (myself included among them) have hardware or use software that is either Windows-only or works much better on Windows - even if we really dislike some aspects of Windows. Doesn't mean we won't complain about the things we dislike and call out for them to be changed/improved.

pxc 4y ago

> People are used to all the bullshit windows forces them to do, and since they consider that the default, thats just how life is for them, and nothing they can do can change that. Ask them to use linux? they will have all sorts of things they need before "its ready", but all the shit they put up with on windows does not get to go in same category, because they already accepted that thats just life. This × 1,000. Everyone has a tendency to do this, but I think it's especially prevalent for choices that we make essentially 'by default'. They no longer register as tradeoffs, and are naturalized and universalized as 'facts of life'.