LurkingLuddite

You know why: Easy money.

ELIZA effect in full swing… Humans really are gullible.

If you want Debian plus some nice tools, I’d recommend MX Linux. It’s based on Debian stable and mosrly just has a few convenient extras. Like installing nvidia drivers with one click, or being able to create a bootable ISO of your exact system. It has a few other neat tools, too.

Wouldn’t be surprised if you could just nab those tools ad hoc as desired for normal Debian, though.

Fully agreed with that.

In fact, such regulations really need to go a lot further and make illegal straight up unnecessary subscriptions, too. If something doesn’t need actively maintained things outside of the actual product for it to function, then it doesn’t ‘need’ a subscription model.

I mean the question got an answer, so either feeding the trolls, or popcorn moment.

… Either way I’ve got my popcorn.

Given all the fun I’ve had over the years with far less powerful systems, it’s not exactly a deathknell to gaming if it turns out that way.

It just better be the deathknell for terrible mobile game microtransaction structures and p2w schemes if mobile devices become the new norm…

“with foresight”

My brother in christ, they put an “AI” shithead in charge. They practically by definition cannot have foresight.

Gaming is in a great place. AAA gaming is not, because of-fucking-course corpos don’t understand art.

WoW is 22 years old.