Comment by xzjis
17 hours ago
Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game. Oh well, if I didn't want that, I could just consider using a Steam Machine, which Valve just announced.
> run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles
Hey, that's not fair, won't this eat up GPU cycles? ;)
Not if it uploads all your data to the cloud and analyzes it there!
Both!
Honestly you don't need Valve hardware or SteamOS to make Proton work really well
You don't, but oh boy, the experience is worth it. Bazzite[1] has it quirks but it mostly works fine in desktops.
[1] https://bazzite.gg/
Imo if you just have a regular desktop PC, use Ubuntu/Fedora, not a dedicated 'gaming' distro. Bazzite's good as a stand in for steam os on non Valve handhelds, but Steam and Proton work just fine on a regular boring Linux distro.
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Isn't this opt-in? How does this hurt you?
Because at some point it won't be opt in
Everything about modern Windows is coercive, or ends up being coercive. You can't even shut down your PC without it forcing you to update Windows. It lets you skip for a while, then after some time, the only options are to Update and Reboot or Update and Shutdown. Totally disrespectful of who the actual owner of the computer is. You have to yank the power plug out to shut down your computer safely.
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> Isn't this opt-in? How does this hurt you?
Thanks. Added to canonical list of "Famous last words". /s
> Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game.
Wasn't that the whole point of Windows Update? To accustom us to have something burning 100% CPU all the time instead of the task you actually want to do?
for real