It shouldn’t be when they were talking about making that shit retroactive for games that were already released. Unity proved they cannot be trusted. Besides, developers should move to other engines for the sole reason of sending a message to the other guys in the industry like Epic’s Unreal Engine. Pull shit like this and you’ll lose out on the developers. Make them realize that Unity was a failed experiment and no one wants to be like them.
True, at the end of the day, he did irreversible damage to Unity’s image with this move.
In his defense, he likely wasn’t alone in making this decision or approving of it, so there’s that.
Did they really encourage it? Genuinely curious as I never heard that before, but that’s wild if true.
Half Life 3 confirmed
You should “distro hop” when you make a decision like this.
This is similar to having a Chevy truck and getting tired of all the problems it has had over its time with you. So you decide to look into Dodge, Ford, Toyota, etc. Of course no one wants to “hop” from vehicle to vehicle; you want to find the right truck for you now! But that’s unrealistic and your best bet is to go to different dealers, look at the different trucks, and take them for test drives.
You should be doing the same to figure out what you like, what you need, and what you want in a distro. Since 99% of them are free, install them and boot them up. Go for live installs on a USB first to give each one a try without having to go through the installation to your machine. But do know that some times, you may experience different results on live USB vs install on SSD. I experienced this with Zorin and its Nvidia drivers that allowed dual screens on live USB but didn’t when installed and I never got it set up correctly.
You’ll get a lot of recommendations here and you should take them into account and the pros that people suggest and see if they fit your specific needs/wants in an OS.
Despite what I said about my experience with Zorin, it was a pretty nice setup and a good one for someone that wants that Windows feel still but without the added Microsoft bullshit. My display issues seem to be a rarity and even despite that, I enjoyed it and have it currently installed to a Chromebook I have for any little Linux needs I need from time to time on the go.
I found out about GOG because I was looking for a really old game and found it in a torrent. The torrent mentioned it came from GOG and I checked it out and ended up buying the game from there.
The game is Mob Rule and I got it well after its original release but this was still some time ago I happened to pick it up at Big Lots when they used to have obscure PC games. It was a ton of fun but I lost the CD and couldn’t find the game anywhere, not even torrents, for many years until one year I searched for it again and found it.
Very thankful to GOG for bringing it back and giving me the chance to have it digitally now so I will be less likely to lose it again. Thats what game preservation is about!
My brother bought this for me for Christmas last year and it’s a ridiculously fun game. The mods are a lot of fun as well.
That was fun realizing why my multiplayer sessions kept getting shut down on Ghost Recon Wildlands. Finally realized it was that shit EAC not playing nicely with SteamOS on my Steam Deck.
A big fuck you to Ubisoft. I just wanted to play a session with my brother.
I’m not sure, to be truthful. Never looked into it! But even if one exists, I’m sure what Windows is doing during an update is grabbing its own bootloader and either installing it or just hitting the switch to set it as the default bootloader.
I say all that to say, that even if there is a grub made specifically for windows, it likely wouldn’t fix this problem. To ultimately get around this, a user would have to change the features in the Windows update, which I believe is possible since I know some installations exist that remove features from Windows during an initial OS install.
But I do believe that Windows’ default bootloader can boot into a Linux OS too. It’s been a while, but I have seen where you can choose different versions of Windows if you have them installed dual boot on the same machine. Where the bootloader will ask whether you want Windows 7 or Windows 10 to boot into. I believe Linux OS installs show here too, but I could be wrong. The problem is really that the bootloader doesn’t show by default so the user doesn’t know a second OS exists on the same disk. If Windows’ bootloader showed by default and let you choose your OS to boot into, I don’t think we’d have the issue OP’s meme shows except with it hiding grub or another non-Windows bootloader.
I definitely get that.
My comment was more so that if you have two things and a problem arises, you should get rid of the one that causes the problem you’re having.
In this case, the problem of Windows replacing the bootloader and Windows deserves to lose out because of that.
But I bet a lot of people incorrectly assume it is Linux that has caused the problem, and they’re not necessarily wrong to assume that since Linux takes a bit more to learn and can be confusing to the layman.
But the underlying issue in OP’s meme is Windows replacing the default bootloader with their own, taking away the choice to choose the OS the user wants to dual boot into.
I’ve never personally experienced that. But it’s been Windows replaces the bootloader which is typically grub with their bootloader and Windows’ bootloader doesn’t default to letting you choose your OS like grub does.
So when you update Windows and restart, it has reset the settings for the bootloader as their own default bootloader which defaults to Windows. You then need to go in and replace grub as the default bootloader so you can once again select your OS.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
I bet a lot of people have gotten so frustrated over it that they have removed Linux and kept Windows. And it has happened less where someone removed Windows, but that is the more correct response of the two considering the problem is exclusively on Windows’ greedy side.
This so much. I have so many users who include a screenshot and cut off parts of the screen. Sometimes the time is relevant, sometimes the URL is relevant, sometimes the web browser is relevant. I get if you have confidential stuff, you can block that out, but leave everything else in.
It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.
That and devs have just one machine to design their game for versus trying to make their game run on hundreds of machines with very different specs.
Some devs, especially first party devs who work closely with or directly for the manufacturer also have insider knowledge of the system they’re developing the game for. The Crash developers did this in the PlayStation 1 era by tapping into resources that other games weren’t using to push out even more performance from the hardware.
Or take an existing lane and charge people to use it and call it the “express lane”.
Apple is the second cheapest option. Damn, times have changed, for sure.
Use F12 instead. Brings up the classic Save As and doesn’t (currently) default to OneDrive.
If only they had other alternatives to it. Nah, they’ll get it eventually.
I would love an addition of first person like they did with GTA V and RDR2. A new way to experience RDR1 would be amazing and first person is my go to in the other games because of the immersion.
I wish those little PCs would make a comeback.
But smartphones have changed that, largely.
There is a desire to go back to dumb flip phones, though, and I wonder if that could help bring small form factor PCs back.