@reiddragon @fuchsiii personally, I find the #ExaArcadia doesn't look like a system worth it's painful asking price compared even to a fully-decked - out #NeoGeoMVS 6-slot board + Games to match!

• Like it's a $2,8k board with games that are 4-digits as well.
  • Now that's still better than the #AlwaysOnlineDRM - laced shitboxes like the SEGA ALLS, but in the end it's just a box with #WindowsEmbedded 10, a #GTX1030 and proprietary, encrypted SSDs to shove into...

And I do kinda question the value given that they literally shove a #PiPico on their JVS Adapter Board.

• I don't mean like a #RP2040 but like the box-standard board and that adapter PCB has up to 5 frames delay!

@mlanger ditto.

It's just that "#AlwaysOnlineDRM" is more of a malware and hinderance than anything.

• #CCSS vendors / publishers should not haggle me post-payment/installation, for it is none of their business how, when and where and what for I use their Software.
  • Their interests have to cease at the initial, one-time-only license check.

With #FLOSS this issue just doesn't exist. Worst-case a distro like #Debian will remind me to 'please get some updates' but not only can I tell it to 'shut up, and never ask me again' but I can even update it as an airgapped system from a burned disc, external drive or NAS.

• And believe me, folks like @fuchsiii who were stuck on #56k until the 2010s already faced that problem.

Similarly, I think #FrugalComputing has it's merits and I'd love to see more things like @violenceworks 's #VT69 terminal…

• Maybe something with like a #RaspberryPi, keyboard and an #eInk screen…
  • Just for distraction-free writing…

@__hetz @vantablack it really depends greatly on the specific Game...

Like @fuchsiii has a lot of issues with weird games that are i.e. #32bit but use a #16bit #Installer, require legacy versions of #DirectX / #Direct3D if not #DirectDraw or have other issues.

• For the most part, #GameScope is broken so many 1990s games without much fans are constantly getting broken much to her frustration.

Obviously this doesn't apply to newer mainstream titles like #Crysis where one just chooses an older version of #Proton / #DXVK and can just game fine.

• But for a lot of older games, shit's getting worse, and the rampant rise of #malware like #AlwaysOnlineDRM and "#ClientSideAnticheat" that is spitefully developed to not run on #Linux when it absolutely could be [i.e. #EpicGames *chose to not make #Fortnite work despite their entire toolchain, middleware, engine and "#AntiCheat" being capable of supporting it] really sours things!

Obviously #Valve ain't saints but even if I was a #Steam-absent #Developer or #Publisher I'd at least not go out of my way to cockblock people from gaming on it, when it's hardware is roughly on-par with the #Switch2 and unlike #Nintendo's shitbox it isn't a closed-off platform.

• It's just that sadly none of the big publishers seem to care - yet.

And with the expected retail price of the #SteamMachine closer to €1k than €500, it'll be kinda hard for most consumers to justify buying in and thus developers to do more than the bare essentials.

So yeah, #LinuxGaming has issues - I'm not gonna deny that - but certainly these are certainly not due to Valve, but rather:

• Publishers integrating malware.
• Developers of FLOSS breaking shit constantly and refusing to address things or even acknowledge issues.
• General #Enshittification and erosion of #ConsumerRights during #Greedflation in #LateStageCapitalism.

@bschorr doesn't change the fact that #Microslop is a shitty #Corporation and #MicrosoftOffice being #enshittified is a serious problem.

• Regardless if they add "#AI" garbage on top of their #AlwaysOnlineDRM:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220307120250/twitter.com/frank_rieger/status/999319383917957121

Nit to mention all the #AIslop is #WastefulComputing!

@Lydie I hope not ib terms of tight ibtegration, but I see the problem:

• Too tight bs…

My guess at that point will be that any performance losses due to lack of optimizations will be outweight by processing speed increases.

• Cuz that's what happens today anyway…

We'd rather see issues with #Enshittification due to #Malware like "#ClientSideAnticheat" or #AlwaysOnlineDRM, becauce *"#Client-side #Anticheat" and #CensorBoot-intertwined #DRM is the only thing that prevents the deserved 100% win of #Linux for #Gaming!

@ahrienby also #AAA #Gaming sucks, because the price/value transactions feel like shit.

• Games laced with #malware (like "#Kernel-Level #AntiCheat" and #AlwaysOnlineDRM) costing € 75-90+ for a worse experience than most #AA and #Indie titles (espechally when adjusted for the price!) are just not satisfying.

Even A/A+/B/C-Titles feel way better and I'm not even looking at rare examples like #Minecraft that get continous post-launch updates & free content expansions for over 15 years now…

• Like when was the last time anyone had bought a AAA Title and felt satisfied after playing through?

Cuz mine was still in the #7thGenConsole era…

@KaitoCross not really.

Similar to #SteamDeck, all it needs to do is deliver a good experience.

• And #Valve certainly knows how to do that, as they turned their #AlwaysOnlineDRM known as #Steam into a feature #Gamers actually want!

@cgudrian Oder dass #Microsoft kein "Nein" akzeptiert und wenn deren #AlwaysOnlineDRM nicht raustelefonieren kann, es alles bricked! (via @frank_rieger )

• So schon seit längerem mit #MicrosoftOffice!

Ich wünschte mir dass solche "Zustimmungen" als faktischer "#Sachwucher" nichtig werden weil jene Personen gerade eben nicht die Freiheit haben, Nein zu sagen und deren ökonomische Notlage ausgenutzt oder eine solche angedroht wird wenn diese nicht zustimmen (bspw. Jobverlust)!

#Spyware #Govware #DRM #DefectiveByDesign #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec

@heiseonline ja, weil #PhysicalGames dysfunktional (#AlwaysOnlineDRM) und unvollständig (Gigabytes an Patches & Updates erforderlich) verkauft werden...

• Bei #Steam kann mensch wenigstens vor Kauf sehen was noch an #DRM erzwungen wird...