nekusoul

nekusoul , vor 13 Stunden an linuxmemes in Guess how I spent my morning...

(like do I seriously need No Man’s Sky installed all the time for the once every three months that I play it?)

That sound's like the data is in semi-regular use at least. For me it's more like "Do I seriously need the sequel installed for that other game I haven't even started yet, but am definitely going to start any day now, after years of having it installed?".

nekusoul , vor 18 Tagen an linuxmemes in Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box

Cries in nvme1n1p6, which is my current OS partition.

nekusoul , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

The topic is bloatware, not games.

The original post includes two gaming examples, so it's actually about both, which is a bit unfortunate, because as you've said, they're two very different things.

nekusoul , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

I think the examples given are just poorly chosen. When it comes to regular applications and DRM, then yes, that's ridiculous.

On the other hand, when it comes to gaming, then yes, give me all the raytracing and visible pores on NPCs. Most modern games also scale down well enough that it's not a problem to have those features.

nekusoul , vor 2 Monaten an linuxmemes in 2nd hand ThinkPad go brrrrr

All they had to do was to allow me to move the taskbar to the side and I'm only partially joking.

nekusoul , vor 6 Monaten an linuxmemes in Year of the Diagonal Linux Desktop, y'all

Not sure how standard this is, but on Pixel phones the default is no auto rotation, but when the phone detects rotation it will display a tiny rotate button in the corner of the screen for just a few seconds. Best of both worlds IMO.