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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 100 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • Video-only link.
  • No transcript, synopsis, or even point of view in the post.
  • Provocative click-bait title.

No thanks. I come to discussion forums for discussion and legitimate news, not to spend my time slogging through some influencer's video to bolster their view count.

When they don't respect my time enough to at least outline their key points in text, and there's no obvious reason why the content must be video, I find that it's vanishingly unlikely that they have anything interesting to say.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I thought the whole point of it being off youtube and on a non-income based platform meant they didn't have to use such scummy tactics like clickbait

[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

This channel is mirrored from youtube one to one. Better than being youtube only, but its influences remain the same.

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a transcript in the description and this is on tilvids, a FOSS fediverse platform which does not financially benefit the uploader

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An off-site transcript is no substitute for posting something of value in this forum. Lack of direct financial benefit from clicks makes no difference to any of the points I raised. (But as an aside, since you brought it up, "SUPPORT THE CHANNEL"!)

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

This video is a mirror of the YT channel. It is clickbait. On YT not only it works, it is mandatory. The Linux Experiment is that kind of channel, where the host has some interesting things to say once in a while, but is a poor communicator. He still thinks he has to abuse superlatives and be radically sensationalist just to get eyes on the video and earn an audience. I have watched a couple of videos of him but it was tiring hearing him speak idiocy upfront then try to add nuance to said idiocy. It is annoying and the worst kind of content.

This person(?) does seem to like filling my front page with blind links :-\ I don't really like blocking people(?) here but ugh, I'm not gonna go check a dozen pages a day just to find out what they are. ... Actually this one seems to have taken over posting a link to every post from a particular news site after I blocked the last one. Dunno why any community needs that, the site itself surely has them all better presented.

Whatever, let's see if another one pops up 🤷

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Dunno, seems pretty good to me.

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

It's really just games with kernel level anticheat that are a problem.

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is such a shit take its almost still steaming hot.

Like what the fuck, just because asshead AAA and AAAA publishers brick their games on purpose (they work worse on winass as well) thats not a Linux thing. We need to shame the assheads responsible not shittalk Linux.

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This guy repeatedly has shit takes. Furthermore, literally all his vod titles are clickbait. I just tune him out now.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 year ago

We need to shame the assheads responsible not shittalk Linux.

This battle starts with your wallets folks. Deny the petite profits.

No tux, no bux 🫡

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been daily driving Linux for a few years. I've had exactly one (1) game that wouldn't run because of anti-cheat, and dozens that run great. And the Steam deck gaining popularity is only making things better and easier.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Been gaming on Linux for over a decade, definitely some stuff is a bit h but it's surprising how much works flawlessly. Bought a steam deck a month ago and I'm very impressed with the polish and compatibility. I'll be happy to see it keep selling. It's a nice piece of hardware.

What? I've never seen it better. I just played Veilguard all the way through without any issues on Linux

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The current state of gaming is that many games perform better on linux than on windows. What planet is this guy on?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Planet Microsoft.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not being able to play the world's most popular games, means most gamers aren't ready for Linux yet.

  • FC25
  • GTA V
  • LOL
  • Fortnite

And more.

I hate those games, but my kids want to play FC25, and for that... I still have a dreaded Windows PC.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I too would like to know this.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not even an acronym, it's a sportsball game by EA.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soooooooo what's the "FC" mean? Do you know?

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Football Club. EA can't use FIFA anymore.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks. That's interesting. How come they can't use FIFA anymore?

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The theory was FIFA wanted some batshit amount of money for the franchise which EA decided not to cough up.
This hasn't been confirmed as far as I know, but either way it's greedcorp vs greedcorp.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If that's true, then, well... Dumbasses... Never make an ultimatum unless you can't handle it being rejected. That's like the oldest rule in negotiation. I know that, and I'm a social dumbass. Those fuckers have no excuse.

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why don't force your kids to play actual games like open TTD?

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Further context for anyone interested.

FC25 is the world's most popular Football (soccer) game, made by the world's shittiest gaming company, EA.

Open TTD is an open source transport tycoon sim.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I play GTA V on my steam deck

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I haven’t tried, but looked it up and see it doesn’t work.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's the point. Online play on linux is limited.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

More and more games are compatible every week, so um... no?

I got games that run better on proton than windows

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Y'all realize that you are doing exactly what these creators want, right?

They create stupid/outlandish shit, because they know people, like everyone posting here, will spread the video to the 4 corners in indignant outrage, and give the creator more spread and exposure than they would have ever gotten on youtube alone due to algorithm.

And if you don't do that, you'll make tons of comments on the video/youtube channel, massively spiking their engagement and skewing the algorithm in their favor

It plays everything I need it to.

Kernel level anticheat is garbage that shouldn't be on anyone's system anyway.

[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm at work so I can't really watch a video about this...but I don't think I've had a problem running any recent game at all. The only one that comes to mind was the beta for monster hunter wilds, and I think that was sort of it's own thing because the game was a mess for windows users too.

Also the new Derail Valley update is awesome and they're working with valve to make it work even better on the steam deck.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It works perfectly for me, but I don't play online games. I hope they can get those games running in Linux so those folks can switch over.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I have problems getting really old games to run. Especially Windows 95/98 games. I don't care much for online slop. Most games I want to play work.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"Oh, look! One(1) game has been busted by the devs themselves and because of that, Linux gaming is dead as ever!"

lmao what

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Indie games and single player games and multiplayer games with devs enabling support still supported.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i play mostly Roblox and sober cane so not for me.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't count sober as roblox windows build running on wine. Count it as a android emulator using roblox apk which tweaks and patches.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah just saying that sober is just a android emulator