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    I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It can run all the telemetry and jankyass untested updates, too

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I would have know this when i said this on Lemmy + linux community. I would actually consider my phone running android/ios to be a greater threat to my privacy than my gaming pc

    With a powershell tweaks you never have to worry about those broken updates.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I run grapheneOS for that reason, though that's besides the point. One thing being bad doesn't make another less bad. And you'd still have to worry about janky updates, you're just minimizing the risk, and mitigating the risk of bad updates by putting in a delay and only doing critical and security updates comes with a compromise to increasing vulnerability.

    Bad OS is bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Just like Linux! But sadly Windows doesn't deliver 3rd party backdoors and viruses automatically yet.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    ..yeah, Windows prefers delivering 1st party backdoors and viruses.
    Jokes aside, what are you referring to with that, where are you pulling your packages from not be vetted?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Thanks, that's actually valid!
    I think one of the commenters there said it best:

    It's almost like the maintainers who curate a distribution repository have an important role preventing such a thing...

    Repositories where anyone can release packages to the end-users may be convenient for developers who want more control over what the user gets, but it has a host of negative consequences for the user. It always ends in malware and anti-features getting distributed eventually.

    (link)

    And it looks like it's being handled decently by Canonical. I don't like Snap, but I gotta say they're doing a good job overall