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Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by ryandrake on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @06:33PM (#42639743)
Unfortunately, you're not going to change any minds here. I've tried and failed to take this principled stand here, too. People (especially gamers) are willing to excuse anything game companies do as long as they at least say it's in service of "preventing cheating."

These rootkits are now considered the cost of admission to playing games, because gamers won't fight the practice, and they hate cheaters so much they are willing to accept anything.

Also consider: HN is full of software developers. If it's a choice between "What Software Developers Want To Do To Your Computer" and "What Users Want To Stop Them From Doing," HN commenters tend to be strongly on the side of the developers.

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Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by matheusmoreira on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @09:36PM (#42641012)
Yeah. It's incredibly depressing.

Thanks for replying. It's good to know that I'm not alone. That's the real reason why I comment these things.

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Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by sadeshmukh on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:33PM (#42641341)
I was so confused reading those as well. I'm concerned how it's even moderately acceptable to anybody.
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Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by thawkth on Friday January 10, 2025 @09:20AM (#42655760)
You're not remotely alone here and it's sad how rare this sentiment is.

I completely agree with you.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because if you apply this situation to pretty much any other consumer product it gets ridiculous fast. What if a car doesn't allow you to turn off an approved road? What if it limited your speed to posted limits? What if you could only use fuel from one brand of station? If parts used DRM so the dealership had to do your brakes and any repairs?

All of these things would cause a massive backlash.

But computers are so hard people can't be trusted with them. It's just nuts.

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Re:Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past t... by ryao on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:33AM (#42646636)
Perhaps analogies could help:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42646266

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