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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Oh, Paul Marketing, you crazy fellow.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly

As compared to consoles? Windows is pretty free.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Other than the Windows tax, ads, bloatware, constant intrusive up-sell attempts…

[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Again

COMPARED TO CONSOLES? That's basically paradise.

Modern, unhacked and unmodded Consoles are:

  1. Completely locked down, not only do they not let you install applications not approved by the manufacturer, in reality you can ONLY buy them from the manufacturer and you pay a hefty tax for that "privilege".

  2. Feeding you ads and upsell attempts whenever you turn them on, as the UI has basically been redesigned to try to sell you more shit first and make getting to your actual games take a few extra steps

  3. Any undesired feature in a console's OS is something you just have to accept and move on. Powerusers killing Windows bloat with third party tools is a time-honoured tradition that goes back to Windows 3.11

I'm not saying Windows is good.

I'm saying that for someone coming from a PlayStation or a traditional XBoXSeXxxx (I love making jokes out of this name), this whitelabelled ROG Ally machine would feel like finally being able to breathe. Just for the fact that you can use more than one storefront and install applications from wherever you want.

Let me put it this way:

Linux is an anarchist commune. True freedom.

Windows is an American Style Capitalist Republic. Freedom*********** with a thousand asterisks more. BUT for someone coming from the North Korea that is playing on consoles (or using an iOS mobile device or...), it DOES feel like finally breathing free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Also, compared to something like the Switch? I don't see MS remotely bricking these devices if you run "homebrew" on them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

That's a really good comparison

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Freedom of Windows" "Power of Xbox" Good stuff. We should make some more. "From a brand you can trust" "Pro gamers choose ... " "Powered by Copilot and Game pass"

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the Zune is fucking amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

You can Google it. The zune was far superior to iPods but software was absolute dog shit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

i had both. the zune was a gigantic plastic piece of shit with a bigass color screen and a bad ui design. the 500gb ipod was better in almost every way

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The Zune was at-best an adequate copy of the iPod lacking a click wheel and having an awkward user interface.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I saw that it's a trimmed down version of windows so I'm interested in giving it a chance. Who knows, maybe we will be able to install said trimmed down version on regular hardware which would be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

You can always use a debloat script to fix a lot of issues. Nothing will help with Windows broken, ancient architecture, but the scripts do help.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

Players on either device will be able to tap into Gaming Copilot ...

...yeah

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what I saw, it's more or less just a new app that starts when windows boots up. Plus some improvements like "the controller now works in UAC prompts" - which tells me that they didn't really learn anything.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (14 children)

it's more or less just a new app

You know a reason why Linux with Steam runs just way better than win? Because they use game scope, therefore not needing to render and run all of the desktop.

So what does Microsoft do? They release a new app on top of the already bloated desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This got me thinking that Valve is the best competitor to Xbox. Instead of getting to release some walled garden, single store handheld they have to open it up to other stores because otherwise people would just buy a SteamDeck.

But everyone who cares about handheld gaming already has a steam deck and this is going to be more expensive so I don't see the point anyway.

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