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Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I do continually find it baffling that companies repeatedly replace existing products with something worse

I literally can't think of one time some service or software was retired in lieu of a like for like* replacement and it wasn't actually worse for a very long time.

I'm actually struggling to think of any example actually

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You could maybe make an argument for Counter Strike or Team Fortress or something like that… maybe.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    aren't current iterations of both basically 'live service games' now, with microtransactions driving their continued existence?

    they are not the same games as the hl mods i started playing way before steam came along.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's worse for the end user, but better for shareholders.

    The best software in many categories is open source and it's astonishing how few people use it. I mainly blame governments in the 1990s and early 00s for embedding Microsoft into their own systems, administrations and most of all: schools. We could be living in a much nicer world right now.

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