• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    As someone who left Windows, I’m glad I’ll be able to play Deus Ex on my Xbox. And Switch? Awesome. My favorite game for many years, no longer tied to computers running spyware.

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      15 days ago

      I’ll be playing it on my spyware free Linux PC and/or handheld. Where I control my nextwork traffic.

      Any console that connects to the Internet is spying on you as well.

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        15 days ago

        Oh yeah, I have an Xbox Series X, I know it has all the bullshit Microsoft telemetry shit turned on in the background that I got away from when I left Windows.

        PlayStation isn’t much better, if any. Both are run by people who don’t get gamers except as a means to profit, but they both make decent gaming machines.

        I think it’s funny how one of the best gaming machines out there runs Linux, and it’s neither unpopular nor unheard of. Steam Deck. And there are others like it. I just wish we had Proton on macOS. Apple has Game Porting Toolkit, Linux (/Valve?) has Proton, I wish they’d work together because they have a common enemy in Microsoft, and both lending their assets to the other helps both of them — in the same way that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Even Windows/Xbox, because the increased competition may make them make better choices.