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Re:I forked SteamOS for my living room PC by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:11PM (#38826115)
> What is productive is calling out hostile behavior

Okay; anti-cheat is user-hostile.

> “Oh you do X, that’s stupid you should not be using the product like that”

Okay, the thing I want is to use a game that I paid for, play it on the machine I own, and run it without giving it any special privileges (certainly not modifying my kernel). I trust that you will support that and not be negative about the way I want to use it?

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Re:I forked SteamOS for my living room PC by infecto on Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:15PM (#38826144)
What are you even arguing? I am not here debating if drm/anticheat is good or bad.

I am saying it’s hostile to tell someone who wants to run software but cannot because of a limitation in the OS that it does not matter because it’s garbage anyway.

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