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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That's a typo, it's supposed to be an R in the middle there, not an F

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Shouldn't it be "Freedom From” ?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

penny arcade? Wow, are they even still around? I havent seen anyone talk about or reference them for..god.. 10 years?

[–] Valencia@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Penny Arcade Expo is one of the biggest gaming conventions in America (and Aus) so I'd say yeah. I think they still make the comic too.

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honestly

As compared to consoles? Windows is pretty free.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Other than the Windows tax, ads, bloatware, constant intrusive up-sell attempts…

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Again

COMPARED TO CONSOLES? That's basically paradise.

Modern, unhacked and unmodded Consoles are:

  1. Completely locked down, not only do they not let you install applications not approved by the manufacturer, in reality you can ONLY buy them from the manufacturer and you pay a hefty tax for that "privilege".

  2. Feeding you ads and upsell attempts whenever you turn them on, as the UI has basically been redesigned to try to sell you more shit first and make getting to your actual games take a few extra steps

  3. Any undesired feature in a console's OS is something you just have to accept and move on. Powerusers killing Windows bloat with third party tools is a time-honoured tradition that goes back to Windows 3.11

I'm not saying Windows is good.

I'm saying that for someone coming from a PlayStation or a traditional XBoXSeXxxx (I love making jokes out of this name), this whitelabelled ROG Ally machine would feel like finally being able to breathe. Just for the fact that you can use more than one storefront and install applications from wherever you want.

Let me put it this way:

Linux is an anarchist commune. True freedom.

Windows is an American Style Capitalist Republic. Freedom*********** with a thousand asterisks more. BUT for someone coming from the North Korea that is playing on consoles (or using an iOS mobile device or...), it DOES feel like finally breathing free.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 15 hours ago

Also, compared to something like the Switch? I don't see MS remotely bricking these devices if you run "homebrew" on them.

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 hours ago

That's a really good comparison

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 18 hours ago

Oh, Paul Marketing, you crazy fellow.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Freedom of Windows" "Power of Xbox" Good stuff. We should make some more. "From a brand you can trust" "Pro gamers choose ... " "Powered by Copilot and Game pass"

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, the Zune is fucking amazing.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 30 minutes ago

FM radio when you wanted it, big color screen that you could watch actual videos on at a solid playback that you could do video out to a TV with. WiFi song sharing. Great playback and no fingerprints in my semitransparent case that glows.

Zune was amazing.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You can Google it. The zune was far superior to iPods but software was absolute dog shit

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw that it's a trimmed down version of windows so I'm interested in giving it a chance. Who knows, maybe we will be able to install said trimmed down version on regular hardware which would be interesting.

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[–] rdri@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

Players on either device will be able to tap into Gaming Copilot ...

...yeah

[–] cron@feddit.org 86 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From what I saw, it's more or less just a new app that starts when windows boots up. Plus some improvements like "the controller now works in UAC prompts" - which tells me that they didn't really learn anything.

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 day ago (16 children)

it's more or less just a new app

You know a reason why Linux with Steam runs just way better than win? Because they use game scope, therefore not needing to render and run all of the desktop.

So what does Microsoft do? They release a new app on top of the already bloated desktop.

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[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This got me thinking that Valve is the best competitor to Xbox. Instead of getting to release some walled garden, single store handheld they have to open it up to other stores because otherwise people would just buy a SteamDeck.

But everyone who cares about handheld gaming already has a steam deck and this is going to be more expensive so I don't see the point anyway.

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