If an app has IMEI access, it could indeed make/manage calls
Yep, but it shouldn't, there's no reason to. That's what I mean by stupid.
The Make an manage phone calls permission is needed to read the IMEI so that's probably why they want it. Yeah, permissions in Android are stupid.
That's what you got on the one game you downloaded, you muppet. It's not the case for most games. Again, get out of your bubble.
I don't care about what he buys. I care that he's telling people who wanna play a game that doesn't work on Linux to play a different game or to go back to Windows. So the dozens of people who did switch to Linux are now being told Windows was the better choice.
Again with this. You can look up the solution, I can look up the solution. Mr. Regular Joe who just got off an 8 hour shift and just wants to play games for an hour doesn't know or care to know what Wine or Lutris are. You need to get out of your bubble.
You download it, you click it, and nothing happens because Linux doesn't run exes, like it was in the 2000s. What did you expect would happen?
It doesn't. But congratulations on showing that Linux gaming outside of Steam is at exactly the same stage as it was years ago: Most titles don't work.
Can I just go to gog.com, download The Witcher 3, click on the installer and have it install? Or do I have to configure some bullshit that's beyond the capabilities of the regular user before I can do that? You seem to be completely disconnected from real people. Real people also don't care about what kernel anticheat does and just want it to work.
Probably a good idea but I hate switching distros and generally try to avoid it until I break the one I'm using and then I go all in. I have a bunch of backups so it should be fine.
Other than SteamOS on my SteamDeck, no but I was considering making the switch to Kinoite.
People voting with their wallet creates no profit incentive. It's what I've been trying to explain to you since your very first comment.
Why care about the ideological stance of a company that holds a significant amount of your data?
I know exactly what it is, I also know it's what people want.
That quote doesn't mean what you think it means. And you haven't been saying it was done for profit, you've been saying it was done because "people voted with their wallet".
It could be 99% of games and it wouldn't matter if the remaining 1% are what people actually wanna play. Support for games outside of Steam is beyond the capabilities of most PC users. Most people don't actually enjoy playing Troubleshooting Simulator.
No need to support it for the general public
Unless the general public wants to play a game that requires it. You're living in your own world.
I don't think they mean necessarily handhelds but definitely console-like machines. Like the OG steam machines.
Yes, it does. Whoever wants to install the "spy backdoors" should be able to. It's called freedom. Look it up.
Lawsuits won't do anything to stop Microsoft in the short term, look at what happened to Netscape. Valve understands that "voting with your wallet" doesn't work because the majority of people will buy whatever the current monopoly holder tells them to buy.
wild conspiracy theories...
Do you live under a rock? Valve has been very clear about their intentions since the days of the Steam machines.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/valve-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-for-pcs/