On the deep discounts page is The Hex. I haven’t played it, but it’s by the same dev as Pony Island and Inscryption, both of which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I’m going to get it. They’re all on a great sale right now.

I didn’t have any respect for him before, and now I guess I have disrespect.

Yup. I’ve completed hundreds of Steam games, I’ve played one EGS game. My library size isn’t that different between the two (like 600-700 on Steam, 200-400 on EGS), but I spend a lot on Steam and nothing on EGS…

Wow, are you me? I just finished my first EGS game a month or two ago, and that’s after years of collecting games. I played on Steam Deck with Heroic, so I haven’t even used their client (I claim on their website).

I have never spent a dime at EGS, but I have hundreds of games from their giveaways. I’m rich!

And a bunch I didn’t complete, but felt I got good value from for <10h playtime.

Same, but also add Fanatical and game giveaways.

Exactly. I almost never pay full price on Steam, and I add a lot of keys from Humble or Fanatical bundles where I only intend to play half or so.

So yeah, I’m guessing it’s actually 10% or so of that figure if we make a few rules:

• count bundles as a single game, and if one game is played from it, that counts for the whole bundle
• assume games added to Steam are part of a bundle (perhaps in groups of 5)
• don’t count games that were ever given away free
• assume all games were purchased at a discount

That would probably get us pretty close to the real number.

Well, if anyone points out a pedo in my neighborhood, I’ll do something about it.

… I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

But they do because they control their developer ecosystem.

I agree that consoles should allow competing stores, but that’s not the current reality.

Played a bit of Despotism 3k and it was surprisingly addictive. I forget when or how I got it (probably a bundle), but I enjoyed myself.

I have been trying to avoid buying new games, and I’ve really enjoyed digging through my library.

Oh no!

Anyway…

What could possibility go wrong?? :)

Obviously.

Eh, the Windows one is “but kind a okay for webdev?”

I’m less worried about it containing itself, and more worried about what the two girls holding the cup want to do with it.

I can lend a helping hand. 😘

Software development, particularly web development, on Windows is pretty good now. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/2), Windows Terminal, and VS Code make for a strong and complete environment. On a recent project it was easy to clone a repo in Terminal, run it in a docker container, and use VS Code’s Remote Development extension to edit directly in WSL or Docker Containers.

So basically it’s “good” because it can feel more like Linux? Linux terminals are way better, VSCode works fine on Linux, and Linux doesn’t need a VM to run Docker containers (provided you avoid Docker Desktop, which sucks anyway).

MacOS itself has best-in-class UI Design

Disagree, but I’m apparently in the minority here. I absolutely do not like macOS, and this is after more than 3 years of using it every day for my job. I dislike pretty much everything about it, but at least it has decent third party package managers (I use MacPorts, coworkers use Homebrew).

If you like Apple’s design ethos, you’ll probably love it. I don’t.

Ubuntu with GNOME

Gross. GNOME seems to try to be the macOS of Linux UIs, with everything being simplified to the absurd. It’s fine, but mostly because I ignore the GNOME bits most of the time.

I’m quite happy with KDE on openSUSE. I’m very much not a fan of Ubuntu (snaps is a major reason), so I think the author should try something else.

Isn’t that a good thing? The best job in the gold rush was selling shovels. Nvidia is already doing that, so I guess the second best thing is providing lodging, which is what Microsoft is doing.