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Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod…

For first party stuff, Nintendo launches finished games

This wasn’t true for several Nintendo games. Mario Kart 8, Animal Crossing and Zelda:Tears all required day one downloads.

Unfortunately there is a fair number of games with a physical release that require downloads to be playable as they are not complete on the cartridge.

Not always true: Not all physical copies contain full copies of the game and will require downloads before the game can be played.

Animal Crossing being a prime example. Mario Kart 8 requires 4.4 GIGABYTES to be downloaded before the game is playable. There have also been cart revisions where earlier versions of the game were complete on the cart… and newer versions of a cart were partial and required downloads as a cost saving measure.

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Right. What’s stopping anyone from maintaining the ONE PURE SYSTEM-FREE DISTRO ™? If it’s -that- much of an issue, surely there’s enough of a userbase to justify maintaining such a distro and suite of apps? We’re running an operating system whose very foundation exists due to forks and splits… some of which went on to be extremely popular defaults. Instead we get an insufferable rant blaming millennials for everything. Literally. Author blames millennials for Firefox, Librewolf and Thunderbird apparently expediting the death of non-systemd setups.

And then we have a spiel about Chrome… “which is a violent security violator bootstrapping itself deep into the base system”… oh lord. Yeah. Someone forgot to take his meds. We’re about one step away from someone asking him where on the Android plush doll the author touched by the Big Bad Google Man in a Trenchcoat.

Angry old man angry that the world hasn’t remained exactly the same for his benefit alone.

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I first ran xUbuntu as a main on a Chromebook that loaded it as a ChrUbuntu install so that I could use Linux on something dedicated and full time while also keeping my desktop intact.

Once I got used to the workings of the system, I came to prefer it in every way.

Want vlc? Install it from the software center gui or use apt. No need to download the exe from a shady download reposting site. Same for every equivalent app that was (exactly or close enough) available for Windows. Never had to worry about the integrity of the apps in the repositories.

Then the Windows 7 updates happened. Forced telemetry, Win10 installer preloaded. An accident later and Win10 was on my system. It pissed me off so much that I wiped the SSD and installed xUbuntu on my desktop. Had already been running it on the Chromebook for a few years so the switch was painless. Didn’t miss the games I could no longer play, not in the least, just for the added stability (no random restarts due to updated, especially not when rendering a multi day job) and ease of being able to install nearly everything I wanted from the repos.

I grew up on windows. Used dos, win 3.0 through NT4 to 2000 to 7…

I wish I had started using Linux sooner. It’s just easier.