The game doesn’t require steam after that and usually this means the game is available elsewhere

Means you can also zip the folder and archive it for later.

Steam being proprietary DRM, and games being closed-source.

Better not tell anyone about DRM-free open source games on Steam then. Wouldn’t wanna burst anyone’s bubble.

Comment OP appears to have drank the Epic Games Kool-aid.

The world’s biggest video game, Fortnite, is only available on Epic Games Store for most platforms. Epic’s market share is gigantic, other video game developers just don’t benefit of it because Epic promotes their own stuff first and foremost. If Epic had a storefront monopoly, it would be classified as anti-competitive behaviour.

Last I heard you could buy games from GOG or Epic and install them on a Steam deck produced and subsidized by Valve.

Or get them on PlayStation, Switch, or Xbox (Earth Walker claimed Steam has a monopoly on video game distribution in general).

they have a monopoly on video game distribution

People who claim that Valve has a monopoly on PC games are already wrong but you claim that they have a monopoly on video game distribution in general is outrageously false. The 2022 overall video game revenue was a bit over US$180Bn. The PC game revenue was US$45Bn. In 2023, all of Steam was responsible for US$8.6Bn in revenue. The biggest PC games (Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox) aren’t even on Steam and neither are any console or phone games.

Criticize Valve for actual things to criticize them for. Don’t spread misinformation.

Oder von den handelsüblichen Vorurteilen gegenüber Autofahrern aus dem Nachbarkreis.

Also dass BM / Bergheim / Bereifte Mörder scheiße Auto fahren, ist ja wohl Fakt und kein Vorurteil. 😈

I don’t get it.

Da hat ja selbst Friedrich Merz eine stärkere Brandmauer…

Yeah, it’s widely believed to be a trial run to replace Perez in the big team.

Daniel Ricciardo, probably. He has a contract for the entire season. Not being put in the seat doesn’t mean his contract is no longer in place.

I tried Alpha 1 and it was completely unusable

You mean like an alpha version?

Yeah, now idea how news sites and people claim this is somehow news.

I wish some company that wasn’t a giant asshole was working on these type devices.

The research behind such tech will proliferate no matter ho invented it first. People will be hired by other companies, they’ll apply whatever they learned, using different techniques. Specific techniques can be patented, the experience people gained cannot.

Orion combines the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses

Ah yes, “the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses”:

There’s more hardware in a notebook than just the CPU. It’s pointless without network and GPU drivers, for example. Also the ARM DeviceTree stuff is BS.

I want to understand where the price justification is

The justification is that people should be yearly subscribers when they can more easily forget to cancel it.

A few minutes at 70°C is enough to kill germs. The dough stays uncooked. Obviously that needs to be controlled. Somehow I doubt they stuck a thermometer in there.

Oh no

Max swearing like New Kids all the time, then no longer permitted to attend press conferences.

Max:

Internet surfing

Forget web browsing with 4GB RAM. You can completely disregard the comments recommending a “lite DE” when merely opening a modern web site will put the whole PC into crawling. The 150 MB more or less for different desktops are completely irrelevant then.

The best “newbie friendly” distribution is just plain Fedora Workstation but with only 4GB RAM it will be a pain to use no matter what.

Edit: If you’re a KDE user yourself, you’re best equipped to answer KDE-related questions.