The people who block HDMI for Linux are also the people who make TVs and other media stuff. So you may not be able to use displayport or hdmi just because some rich people decided so to make more profit.

There’s nothing evil in Steam monopoly. Their evil thing is gambling.

It seems you fly a lot. Are you a pilot?..

You don’t even need to pay them, this service is free.

Why the heck is everything stripped to them

You need some CDN to hide your server IP from DDOS. Cloudflare is the only free one. AWS and Azure are the big ones with many additional services and seemed pretty reliable. So here’s 95% of the Internet probably.

You are right. Thank you for replying.

world where every household has rechargeable AA batteries

What do you need AA batteries for? And why do you think the whole world also does?

Exclusives don’t benefit anyone.

just running great on any distribution

Just running great on some Bob’s distribution for which Bob made sure no game will ever run on it…

He will likely introduce them to gambling anyway.

Saving what?

Any data to back that claim? I thought most of their income is from Steam and games(including those with pushing gambling on children) is a very small share.

Wonder how long it could run standalone on decent fps.

I think it says that pressure triggers can be mapped as buttons too.

I think malicious is the correct word for it.

Is it not?

Well they are being criticized for this in every relevant thread so I wonder if there’s something else for your critical thinking claim.

What criticism of Valve do you have?

Well they are pretty open on that you should not use it.

MS still depends on sales of licenses

It’s not 2014, their business was selling cloud Linux and opensource since 2018 if I remember correctly.