It would be nice if I could quit making proprietary software for a living. Maybe some day I will try making some commercial libre software and will see how it goes.

https://xkcd.com/2228

That’s sad. I hope that the company fails and they get hired somewhere else.

Good point, they can’t change who Linus is. But then I don’t understand why Luke and others would stay there for years and continue working with that guy, continue to take part in unethical behavior. It makes me think that it just didn’t bother them enough.

Linus is not the only one to blame. The people who work there could have done something to stop the unethical behavior or quit. But some of them stayed there for years and enabled Linus. I can’t look at those people and not think that they aren’t incompetent or corrupt.

What they did should be the standard. Serious reviewers should check on each others work and point out errors on regular basis. It’s the only way to stop corrupt/incompetent reviewers from misleading people.

But Steve didn’t contact Linus to give him time to prepare an explanation in which he would blame everyone else and say how sad he is! It’s just a poor $100M company, they are just humans and they make mistakes. :D

They have been misleading millions of people for years and getting away with it. I hope this company is done. There have to be consequences for this kind of behavior.

What Gamers Nexus did should be the standard. Serious reviewers should check on each others work and point out errors on regular basis. It’s the only way to get rid of corrupt channels like Linus Tech Tips and I suspect they were just one of many.

Didn’t know about this, thanks!

There is also Tor Browser.

That’s cool! So there aren’t any issues with phone calls anymore? I think people complained about audio quality, but I guess my PinePhone also has some issues like that.

But if you do, I would recommend to use megi’s u-boot fork to improve your battery life.

Doesn’t everything use Tow-Boot now?

Freedom requires sacrifices. I research if a game will run before buying it. I don’t but the ones that won’t, because freedom is more important to me.

This is why I’ll still use Win 11 as my daily.

I think your goal should be to do the opposite. Run GNU/Linux as your daily and switch to Windows only when you have to. Eventually you will become better at solving issues and will be able to run more games without using Windows. Maybe in a few years you will even decide that you no longer care about those remaining games that don’t run and ditch Windows entirely.

That won’t convince a lot of people

That’s fine. Most people don’t care about freedom, security and privacy, so they aren’t willing to spend the extra effort to get those things. But it also means that publishers don’t have a good reason to stop abusing their users with DRM and spyware, since people will buy those games anyway. They don’t have to publish for GNU/Linux, because people are fine with running Windows and not being in control of their computers.

For GTA VC for example people list some workarounds: https://www.protondb.com/app/12110.

You could also try using WINE: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18567

Edit: Usually the only hardware that matters is the GPU. The software is also important: GPU drivers (mostly for Nvidia users), version of Proton/WINE, Wayland vs Xorg, dxvk and extra libraries that a game might need.

We have GNU/Linux on smartphones now. There is PinePhone and Librem 5. Some Android phones can run GNU/Linux too.

We have PinePhone and Librem 5 now.

I disagree. Most phones can only run proprietary operating systems and the modem runs its own proprietary operating system, which very likely has access to system memory. Your phone carrier tracks you everywhere you go and can listen to your phone calls.

How is PinePhone Pro now? It’s been over a year since its release and reading on reddit a few months ago it still seemed behind the original PinePhone. I would like to upgrade to the Pro version, but I’m worried it will be another year for it to be stable.

No algorithm designed to keep you addicted or run experiments on you.