Didn’t read the article.
The idea of online only software irritates me. Of course multiplayer games have to work this way. When blizzard and Ubisoft started requiring an active connection for single player games that was just going too far.
Can you imagine sitting at your computer, doing literally anything. The screen goes strait to blue with the windows shutting down screen saying, “Internet disrupted, please contact your provider for support”.
I don’t really think votes mean anything when the community is still small. There tends to be so few comments, you can actually read all of them.
The problem starts in the hundreds of comments. I’m not going to spend an hour reading one comment thread. If a post explodes in popularity your voice is just a drop in a Olympic sized pool, there is a good chance it won’t be seen by another soul.
Once a post hits this kind of criticality, voting is the only way your opinion starts having weight in the discussion. Most communities I use are still small, so either decision will have little impact on me.
I still occasionally lurk on reddit, just a few obscure subs like r/fedora. Lemmy is the first social platform I’ve actually commented on.
Honestly I wasn’t to interested in the whole “movement” against the API changes. Being a nerd, the underlying tech behind activitypub is what got me interested.
Can you imagine being so tired, even CPR can’t wake you up.
This site is a bit more extensive.
“…causing worry about the space sim on PC, but a God of War…”
wat?
I played the first and maybe 3rd game back in the day. You could ground boost but virtical flight was more inertia based. The footage had no real walking around, so I wonder if you’ll even have a boost bar to deal with.
I don’t preorder anymore, even a game I’m confident I’ll like. Will probably pick it up before it gets discounted though.
I went with Fedora for my gaming desktop and I think the only controllers supported out of the box were direct input controllers. Personally I have a Xbox series x controller and wireless dongle. By default the dongle is used as a wifi adapter which kind of took me by surprise.
To get the controller working, I had to install the Xone kernal module from git. After that everything worked fine. Steam, Lutris and yuzu. Once you get a controller working on the system it pretty much works for any app that uses controller input.
Distributions can have a big impact on the effort and knowledge you need to get things working. For example Nobara flat out asks if you want to install xbox controller support.
I guess even a chromebook has some sort of offline apps and storage.