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epicsninja , in Here are the winners for the steam awards 2023

Starfield getting Most Innovative Gameplay is hilarious.

Klanky , in Here are the winners for the steam awards 2023
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These things make me realize how out of touch my tastes are - I haven’t played any of these and there is only one I am interested in playing.

Grass ,

As long as it isn’t starfield then you probably aren’t out of touch.

Klanky ,
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Haha it’s Dave the Diver. I’m just not interested in any of the other games.

Grass ,

It’s excellent and hilarious. I lost it at the lyrics(?) of the knockoff anime song. The actual gameplay is quite enjoyable. I still have to go back and do that free dlc update.

heygooberman , in Here are the winners for the steam awards 2023
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Hogwarts Legacy is the Best Game for Steam Deck? Really? I should think a game like that would run better on a console like PS5 or XBox.

Seraphin ,
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Some of these category winners are starting to make less and less sense each year. Red Dead 2 for Labor of Love? wtf?

I voted for Risk of Rain Returns for best on Steam Deck. Been playing it on the ROG Ally and it’s a damn near perfect handheld game.

Hello_there ,

Look at the Steam news section for rdr2. They pushed out a few minor updates with timed bonuses for online play over the past year.
That's it.
Pretty sure Deep Rock or No Mans Sky has had more and more impactful updates

hal_5700X , in Here are the winners for the steam awards 2023
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Starfield wins Most Innovative Gameplay. If that doesn’t prove game awards are a joke, nothing will.

EDIT Also Hi-Fi Rush didn’t get Best Soundtrack. The music is part of the gameplay. If you time your attacks to the beat. You will do more damage.

Dyskolos , in Steam breaks another annual record, launching more than 14,000 games in 2023

… And like 5 were really good 😁

BlanK0 , in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024)

Just install Linux mint and install flatpak steam. I think minimal distros are better in general but they do require more familiarity with terminal usage which can be harder for newer users (I personally use void). So mint is a very solid distro that has a good amount of support in older hardware and stuff, no need to think hard basically

pivot_root , in Steam breaks another annual record, launching more than 14,000 games in 2023

And not a single one of them involved NFTs.

ReakDuck ,

Because they dont allow NFTs or Crypto in general. Your game gets removed for violating the rules afaik or smth.

schmidtster , in Steam breaks another annual record, launching more than 14,000 games in 2023

Kind of a useless stat when there’s very few rules to what the “public” can launch on your ecosystem.

Be different if they were curating and publishing each themselves.

mdd ,

I can’t check right now but curious how this compares to titles on the Play store.

schmidtster ,

A quick google says they release upwards of 90k titles a month for Android apps.

corsicanguppy , in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024)

Didn’t win7 support end already?

Allero ,

By Microsoft, not by Steam

spirinolas , in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024)

I do tech support in a school that still has Windows 7 on all PC’s. These are old relics from 2008 and just this week I was informed we’ll have to manage with them for a few more years. There’s no way I can upgrade those things to Windows 10 not to mention we don’t have the licenses. They can barely run 7. I’m thinking of throwing a user friendly Linux distro in those things. The principal liked the idea but I’m not sure the users will like it. But Windows 7 is becoming a liability.

corsicanguppy ,

PC’s

Consider taking a class.

fishsayhelo ,

why?

Muffi ,

Because he wants to feel superior by correcting an irrelevant detail

FractalsInfinite ,

Words change meaning, the acronym PC has become a shorthand that refers to all computers now, not just personal ones.

testeronious OP ,

I don’t know much about linux, but maybe try those debian stable distros (mint, ubuntu, or debian itself).

When we use linux for basic things like browsing the web, opening pdf files, editting a picture (on gimp) and so on, I don’t see much of a difference on the experience.

By the way, I once installed linux on a old laptop with 2GB ram, the performance got so much better, I was even able to play simple 2D games (kingdom rush) at 60 fps, this wasn’t possible on the old windows 7 it had installed.

alphapuggle ,

Everything I did on the school pcs would’ve been just as easy and likely easier to do with Linux. Our 7 PCs were slow as hell and that was when those PCs were new.

ChromeOS flex could also be a way to go for education. You can manage them through Google admin if you have Google workspace for the district.

spirinolas ,

Our school does have Google Workspace. Could it be integrated with ChromeOS?

alphapuggle ,

I believe so, I’m not an IT admin but I believe that’s all my school just had for their enterprise enrollments. Would give you more restrictive control over the students than you would on linux

aBundleOfFerrets ,

Second ChromeOS flex. Its what my school put on all the shitty aging macs

chicken ,

I feel like ChromeOS in schools is a big part of the current problem with students reaching college in a tech-illiterate state

aBundleOfFerrets ,

I agree. School admins don’t care. They want the most control over the hardware issued to students and google’s stack is admittedly much better than what you can do on windows and mac.

Muffi ,

I got a bunch of old Thinkpads for my classroom at the school i work at and installed Ubuntu on all of them. They run smooth like brand new laptops, and I have been surprised to see my students having an easier time using Ubuntu than Windows 11.

kalistia ,

I would go for Zorin! It’s based on ubuntu and quite close to the windows experience so easy for beginners!

BlanK0 ,

Just put linux mint and its basically the same experiente imo. Also much safer, since now to download stuff they are going to have to rely on the graphic app store application which is much safer then downloading on the internet.

RebekahWSD , in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024)
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I’ll miss you, Windows 7 that I ran into the ground in a machine that ignored the fact by all accounts it should have died ages ago.

But hey! Solid state drives are cool now that I’m in modern times.

Mandy , in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024)

I expected five miliseconds of scrolling to find someone with a megaphone hammering on about Linux.

It took none.

Im one myself but this is just as bad as the circlejerks on the Teletubbies website.

taggart_mccallister ,

I opened the thread to see the same thing. Yup. Anything Windows and it’s LINUX BETTER immediately.

YoorWeb ,

I mean, got a better idea for fixing win7 problem?

Outtatime ,
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I’ve seen people bring up Linux on non-tech related posts. It’s a weird flex.

naticus , in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024)

Funnily enough, today I was going through old shit and found two copies of Vista Ultimate. Pretty sure those are ready for the bit bucket in the sky.

Carighan , in Starfield's recent reviews have gone to "mostly negative"
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Fitting, the game is also “mostly negative”.

That doesn’t make it trash, but it’s mostly a regression from previous games. Shame that Bethesda seems to be have absolutely zero desire to improve anything about their formula at all.

And as expected, Obsidian’s already-subpar Outer Worlds vs now Starfield really just proved who made all the good open-world RPGs that released under Bethesda’s name.

FlappyBubble , in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024)

Understandable but bad since all newer Windows versions are really heavy on telemetry and privacy hostile practices.

Of course I use Linux but I don’t live in a bubble and see that most people won’t switch in the near future.

testeronious OP ,

according to the latest steam hardware survey, only 0.91% of the users still use Windows 7 ~ 8.1.

…steampowered.com/…/Steam-Hardware-Software-Surve…

I know it doesn’t have much to do with your comment, but what you said got me curious.

Halosheep ,

The day every game I play can be played on Linux is the day I swap. I used to have a dual boot setup but honestly it was just easier to only use one OS and the one I use the most ends up being the one that supports my main hobby the most.

It’s unfortunate that such a compromise has to be made.

GoOnASteamTrain ,

Not sure why this made me look but it is cool that Linux as a whole has a bigger user share than Windows 7 and 8.

I am relishing the idea of switching, I just need my last few creative outlets (mostly music software) to work on Linux fully, and I will jump. 😊

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