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It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta

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Re: It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta

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revolvingocelot wrote: post #106
ajvs wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people don't care about privacy much, so they don't notice that if you try to use Steam in offline mode permanently it's impossible. Valve like most other big tech companies wants all their user data too.

I don't think that's the reason. Valve is too small to really achieve anything with our user data, nor do they have any impetus to collect it. The Hardware Survey is technically optional, and my recommendations are so unbelievably poor that I can't seriously believe that feature ingests any individual user data. I suspect it's more to do with the fact that without requiring a new Steam Ticket every once in a while, I…

This is already possible if you just download a cracked version in the first place, and it is technically more demanding (of the users), and more inconvenient. So what is it achieving exactly?

Re: It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta

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arendtio wrote: post #72
edflsafoiewq wrote: post #65

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Going through a shim is better. It allows you to modify the open-source shim to analyze and patch the closed source game. This is why Proton can release fixes so fast. It also lets each party care about the natural thing for them: gamedevs care about windows and do a good job writing windows code; winedevs care about linux and do a good job writing linux code. Gamedevs don't care about linux so their native linux cod…

But in some cases it is also the reason why anti-cheat software is such a pain and for multiplayer it sucks :-/

“Cheating,” also known as modifying user facing software to better satisfy the user needs. Perhaps sealing the user is net-positive for games (I personally don’t think so), but any OS with such a capability will get abused (e.g., look at iOS).

Re: It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta

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Post by revolvingocelot »

Siira wrote: post #121
revolvingocelot wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that's the reason. Valve is too small to really achieve anything with our user data, nor do they have any impetus to collect it. The Hardware Survey is technically optional, and my recommendations are so unbelievably poor that I can't seriously believe that feature ingests any individual user data. I suspect it's more to do with the fact that without requiring a new Steam Ticket every once in a while, I…

This is already possible if you just download a cracked version in the first place, and it is technically more demanding (of the users), and more inconvenient. So what is it achieving exactly?

Can it really be that you're arguing that turning off wifi is "technically more demanding" than locating and installing a cracked version?
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