I barely use Steam to be honest. Gosh, I need to get off Windows...
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TBH operating systems are like tools, and if windows isn’t too intrusive and neutered, it can be OK.
I use Windows for gaming/media, for performance reasons, and (CachyOS) Linux for GPU compute stuff, dev work, office, pretty much anything else.
Well, yeah, I get that... Still, there's quite a bit about Windows that annoys me, and there's really nothing I do on Windows that Linux can't handle. I've already looked it up, and the little gaming I do does work pretty well on Linux too, reportedly.
So I find myself thinking... Why am I on Windows? I could be on Linux and ditch Microsoft. It's just some anxiety, fear that things'll break. At the end of the day, I have more confidence that, if something goes wrong, I can fix it in Windows, but may not be able to fix it in Linux. Hope I'm making sense here.
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I still don't understand why the company is so highly regarded. They enable underage gambling. Life must be easy for a company. You just have to be a little bit better than the others and you are regarded as a hero.
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Pretty much.
I wish more companies took the approach like steam where it seems to be they are content with the amount of money they make and limitless profits are not the end goal
Gaben is a billionaire, Valve isn't content with the amount of money they make, they just have good PR
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I also wish more companies took the approach like steam and peddle heroine to kids and recovering addicts in order to make money.
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While I have deleted Amazon, Meta accounts along with restricting what Google gets in terms of data. Steam will be the last and by far the most hardest thing I have to give up (if I ever do tbh)
I'm using Steam cause of the SteamDeck. If Gabe dies and they start fucking things up I'll install bazite and sail the Seven seas once again.
Why do you have to call me out like that man
I'm literally installing windows right now. I feel disgust, but I need it for one application that I know will never have a Linux version. I got tired of the slow as shit virtual machine I used for it before. I can't replace it with an alternative either, for business reasons.