I think that'll still be the problem with it being in the storefront at all. Some parents org makes large enough fuss about porn games on Steam and payment processors demand stronger moderation rather than have their brands associated with Steam and whatever may be released on it

I don't think there's a way for Valve to avoid this. Like I don't think it would be enough to mark games as only available for purchase without support from the major payment processors/rails. Like disable those and add crypto payment support and only use those for those games. Those games being on the store that major payment processors support, they'll not want those on a store they support

This is a case where probably should be another store that doesn't use major payment processors but until alternative payment rails became popular, it'd be a low sales volume store. I know cryptocurrency has negative connotations because of the community, but I think those currencies are the only long term solution for people making porn games or whatever type of content that may have rich/powerful groups wanting to suppress

ARM and x86 are both proprietary but ARM licenses ARM out willy nilly while x86 is Intel, AMD, and watever VIA does these days with their license.

Steam as an ARM store just means Valve built a version of Steam that runs on modern Mac machines which are all ARM processor based. So any game that releases natively for Steam on Mac now means the developer has support for building ARM versions of their video games

ARM companies. Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung, Xiaomi, Nvidia, Amazon, Alibaba, Broadcom, ..., a bunch of companies

Budget PCs? Maybe. There's a lot more ARM CPU vendors out there. Just if they decide it's worth targeting the desktop/laptop/handheld PC market with proper software support. Your TV probably has an ARM chip in it.

I am interested in ARM handheld PCs to see what they can manage in the sub 10w TDP range. Past that I'm even more interested in RISC-V devices. It'll be many years for solid support though. ARM for Linux has been around for decades and ARM for Windows since at least Windows 8. It's been a slow grind for high end ARM on desktop/portable PCs. My impression is on Linux box64/86 and FEX are pretty good and the MS one for Windows seems solid. Linux Qualcomm said they'd be fast on support and they're definitely not AMD/Intel/Nvidia fast to support Linux machines

I'm sure RISC-V vendors will be better with Linux. ARM ones, Qualcomm has been mediocre. Mediatek+Nvidia, at least Nvidia is well experienced with Linux deliverables for hardware drivers.

Excellent. The umbrella of KDE is home to a bunch of my favorite applications. Kdenlive, Krita, Digikam. I've been hotly anticipating the day I get a phone running Plasma Mobile

This may be better eventually than Plasma Mobile for what I imagined as an ideal gaming frontend that isn't just Steam Big Picture

Maybe someday Waydroid and Android Translation Layer will make Linux as a HTPC+gaming great

Last game was mediocre but over 20 years they've been very consistent. I wonder how stable Playground Games have been with Fable reboot. I wonder if they've managed being a 2 game pipeline studio or it's all hands on deck for Fable. If it's all hands on deck for Fable and no Forza Horizon game on the horizon as a studio silver lining regardless of Fable performance, the pressure there after the last couple of years of MS Xbox slashing must be heavy

Forza Motorsport being cut when it has been a pillar for 20 years is insane.State of Decay 3 so far dodging bad news year after year while being publicly absent

Pitchford is the only person in the industry that seems to love the smell of their own farts as much as Tim Sweeney

Mobile and I imagine Google Docs really did a number on Windows necessity. In my experience, large companies and government rely on Windows and O365, smaller organizations use Google Docs. Even universities I've seen start with classrooms a decade ago using Google Docs and hangouts to eventually using Google Suite or whatever its called these days for student/faculty email

At least word documents saved as PDF and shared is way more common today than a decade ago. A decade ago I mainly remember seeing nothing but Excel and SPSS in classes, now I see professors showing how to do stuff in Google Sheets. For a long time computer science and math professors have been geeky and idealistic so you'd regularly see Libre/OpenOffice used in lectures

Another is Blender. In like 2008 ~2.49 Blender, professionals would scoff. A decade later Blender 2.8 releases and by today I hear way less vitriol and more opensess as another tool in the toolbox or recognition as great for at least learning or professional use for smaller teams. Flow was a successful movie made with it

Davinci Resolve is getting better and a lot more mainstream today than a decade ago. And stuff like Kdenlive is more powerful than the vast majority of people need. People were doing great stuff a decade+ ago with iMovie and basic Windows Movie Maker

Video games are a lot easier now because of Valve with Linux

Mobile, adults used to have laptop that pretty much excited to login to their credit cards and pay them, use TurboxTax, print out MapQuest directions, etc. Phones have made a laptop redundant I think for most people now. Work provides one if needed. TV for movies and phone for everything else

To me there's nothing Microsoft can do to stem the decline of Windows. Mobile first is standard now. Microsoft has no presence in smart TVs because they failed with Windows Mobile and Xbox hardware is on life support and they never made the stripped down Xbox Windows available for TV makers anyways. The loss towards mobile will continue.

Then there's national security concerns for countries around the world to be reliant on American software and hardware. Diversification of operating system has picked up heavily. It started like 20 years ago but it didn't seem to really pick up until the Huawei sanctions and driving Huawei to their own OS and Chinese government to invest even more into domestic Linux distro a. Then the recent American trade wars renewing interest in European countries in Linux and LibreOffice. My understanding has been that Linux had had strong adoption in India for some time now

Desktop Linux in the US, I say just keep focusing on prosumer/professional users. Software developers and other IT professionals are already Linux heavy. Some commercial software is available like Maya and Davinci Resolve. Krita and Blender are great. Kdenlive is good. Seems like GIMP and Inkscape development may be picking up momentum. Darktable is great. Valve keep focusing on SteamOS and community distros keep supporting more handhelds making every year easier and easier for gaming. Steam Deck 2 is hopefully a way more available in retail than the first deck. First product work out the kinks and prove viability. Second product and possibly AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, etc are way more interested in low power gaming than before as well as first class Linux support

Outside of the US, I feel like Trump both term one and now term two has really given Linux and open source software a global boost in appeal.

100% numerous people in the US military know that they're sitting on extremely expensive ships/aircraft/vehicles that are with modern enough weaponry, easy to destroy. A question of whether they have the power, for enough time required, to fix the bloat

Difficult and expensive to develop, manufacturer, maintain. Trapped in service contracts with completely single source suppliers, no alternatives. If it wasn't so expensive to maintain, even just the ammunition, maybe it wouldn't be such a panic situation but well after pretty much constantly being at war since the countries inception, the US is sitting on an albatross of a military. Not just all the equipment but how much employment is tied to supporting the albatross. Albatross multiplied hard with Iraq and Afghanistan paired with all the tax cuts since Reagan. Without Afghanistan and Iraq, probably wouldn't be so wallet concerned for for a good amount longer

Good. I saw an article the other day that kept referring to protesters against Palestinian genocide as “agitators.” They already lost conservatives to thinking mainstream news media was corrupt. Maybe they shouldn’t operate in a way where leftist also abandon them and possibly get hostile like conservatives

I've gone from almost certain a 9070xt and Switch 2 to probably nothing this year. Maybe not next year. Helps me stay disciplined I guess. I rarely play games that don't run a Steam Deck level hardware anyways

Always felt like this needed to happen for long time now. I guess now better than never. Got to figure out a business model. Reselling Mullvad as Firefox VPN was a start. I feel like everything that Proton does, Firefox should be doing but with a Linux file manager application