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I’m really excited by this. I sold my nintendo switch a while ago and I miss handheld gaming while going on trips. and also the fact that alot of games will probably be ported to linux because of this. what do you all think?

  • Helix@lemmy.ml
    32·
    3 years ago

    Okay, compare that to the dozens of thousands of proprietary games which are a lot of fun. Steam doesn’t even have intrusive DRM. It’s easily circumvented. I applaud that many games are available DRM free on GOG.com nowadays, but you wouldn’t play them either, because they’re pR0pRiEtArY™.

    Art is usually proprietary. If you go to a museum, you pay an entry fee to a proprietary gallery of art. The art itself is proprietary most of the time. You can get it printed, if the copyright ran out even while only paying the print and no license, but it’s still not copyleft or libre.

    I like to view, consume, use art. I think artists are entitled to sell their art however they like. It’s sad that you dismiss everything which isn’t proprietary software.

    And I don’t even think you only use Open Source Software, as I’m very sure you probably didn’t buy a PC without any proprietary software. Usually at least the blobs in your NIC, the BIOS/UEFI, GPU firmware or similar things are proprietary.

    Do I think that’s bad? Sure. But it’s how things are run right now. Let’s change it instead of creating our own little bubble of useless software.

    • Werwolf@lemmy.ml
      41·
      3 years ago

      You’re wrong. I don’t even like open source software. I exclusively use free software. And yes, I have a librebooted laptop which is my daily driver with a free, as in freedom, BIOS.

      I respect artists and I think that they deserve to get paid and make a living with their art. I love visiting art galleries, reading and listening to music.

      The problem with games is that they execute code in my machine. I don’t want any code to be executed in my machine if I can’t know exactly what it’s doing. This gives me freedom and digital sovereign. This is how things should work. This is what I believe in. So no code will be run on my computer if it isn’t free software.

      And the software I use isn’t useless at all, since I can get my job done with this software. So I guess that it’s pretty useful. It isn’t a little bubble, you have thousands and thousands of pieces of free software you can use. At least you need something really specialized, I bet that you can do it using free software.

      Edit: fixed some typos