Gaming

Yeah, I... ok, I haven't read the entire actual post, but uh...

Yes, Steam is not perfect, but... just run it on linux.

Via Proton.

A project massively spearheaded by Valve, that functionally has resulted in, among other things, extremely significantly improved game support on older hardware.

Also....with... a great many older Steam games... at least on linux, sometimes even on windows... you can just download the actual game files, and then move them out of the Steam directory, and ... back them up, run them outside of Steam.

Its usually much, much trickier to do this on Windows, but still.

Yes, this doesn't work if its reliant on hooking into Steam for whatever various services... but like... you can do this, I've done it many times for fucking around with more intensive attempts at modding a game.

And you of course can setup Proton without using Steam... at all.

I am honestly baffled that Kaldaien, who has been modding PC games for quite a while... seemingly doesn't know or realize this.

I guess they just don't have much linux experience?

... fucking MSFT doesn't even support Win98, XP, or 7 or 8.1, and 10 is basically on its last legs.

How can Steam be reasonably expected to work on OSs that aren't even supported by their own publishers?

Ok, I've now read his post.

Like don't get me wrong, I super understand the frustration of being a modder and running into unending stupid edge cases where you need something to work that just does not have an actual 'responsible party', because it lies at the convergence of systems that 2 or 3 or more entities built to work between them, at that point in time... but that just is the nature of this beast.

A whole lot of this screed seems to be frustration with stuff like that, and... weirdly being angry that deleting your steam profile results in your posts being deleted?

???

I think Kaldaien needs a big fuzzy hug from a penguin.