Thought it’s probably fine after reading the title, but this shit isn’t fine. What the fuck.

An app store for linux.

Why would it be illegal, or unethical? I don’t really see any reason.

EU is way too large of a market to “lock out.” Didn’t happen with Apple, for example.

For subscription hell, we’re deeper into it than is healthy, but I don’t expect it to take over because of this. Steam, which is the biggest, most profitable platform out there doesn’t even offer a subscription and shouldn’t be hurt by this. For competitors, trying to suddenly force everyone into a subscription would lose a lot of business.

Edit: Anyway, doing nothing about it is a guaranteed bad outcome.

It’s not supposed to be a finished law at this point. The main take from the initiative is that digital games have a massive issue with anti-consumer practices, and that consumers demand something to be done about it.

How would this exactly backfire in your view?

Nice going. Maybe EU can beat some sense into digital “ownership”.

Guess I should give it a proper look, then.

It is actually useful?

In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.

Time to start max payne

I’m guessing these are all just very recent.

You can play non streamed games on steamos now?

Non streamed? You mean just running the game on the device? You could run games on steamos since it first released in 2013.

other companies can pay a steep price to have it on their handhelds, I bet.

Probably not, they still need market share. More likely it would be just locked down, filled with ads, and generally unusable.

Oh, that’s cool.

If it can’t be found online, could start poking with a multimeter.

It’s a legit fediverse software for sharing music. I don’t know anything about specific instances though.

For sure, but regardless of that.

If they make a device that doesn’t suck, will people not just install Steam on it?

Why?

It does, but the ui isn’t really designed around that. I draw in krita and edit images in gimp. Doing it the other way would suck for both uses.

edits

Krita is more of a painting program.