Because they haven't been affected by Manifest v3 yet. As soon as they realise just what Manifest v3's all about...They'll give a fuck.

I got Death Stranding...

...It was free. The Epic client runs under Bottles in its own isolated sandbox, so it can't spy on me.

If it's free it's for me, if you have to pay no way.

Considering that Netflix are planning on dumping their popular midrange plan in favour of either the more expensive and less popular 4k plan, or the ad ridden cheaper plan - This almost sounds like an attempt at swaying the masses, by making them believe that most Australians are somehow 'happy' to pay for the cheaper ad ridden plan.

Bend over Netflix, I'll show you what you can do with your ad ridden bullshit, and I'm not paying more for the 4k plan.

Firefox + uBlock Origin + PiHole = I'm wondering what all the fuss is about. I haven't seen a single adblocker warning on YouTube yet.

Stop using browsers based on Chromium people, it's not that hard.

Hell, as a small business owner providing third party IT technical support/repair services, I'd simply like to be able to advertise my actual technical support services in any form whatsoever on Google's bullshit platform.

But for some vague and obscure reason, third party technical support and repair services are banned from advertising under Google Ads - Something that most definitely was not always the case.

At minimum they could provide a realistic and fair certification system for businesses that are obviously legitimate, assuming that providing 'the best experience for the consumer' really is Google's main focus - They seem to be able to provide such a system for questionable online dating services boardering on human trafficking not a problem in the world.

But the shameless unspoken reality is that Google are only interested in maximizing the marketing presence of their own certified partners for the service and repair of Google's own range of products, while burrying the little guy.

You can't even configure the word 'apple' as a keyword search term in your advertising - The customer can't see the keyword, it's just a search term - But you can't use the name of a piece of fruit in your advertising.

Fuck Google.

Furthermore, I've personally dealt with a number of elderly people scammed out of their life savings because they unknowingly gave scammers full remote access to their phone - The phone that contains the banking app seniors barely understand, the same phone their SMS based MFA codes are sent to.

To add insult to injury, the banks are refusing to reimburse any funds lost as they state the client allowed an outsider to access their account and transfer all available funds.

May I recommend KDE Neon. Canonical have ruined vanilla Ubuntu with their Snaps agenda.

Microsoft have Microsoft accounts, Canonical have Snaps...

Benchmarks also highlight a number of titles actually performing better under Linux than native Windows, especially where Vulkan is concerned. My gaming performance under Linux is fantastic, the advancements in the last five years alone have been astounding.

The popularity of Windows is largely due to the fact it's pre installed on most PC's when you buy them, people literally think Windows 'is the computer'. Such popularity has little to do with Windows being a great OS. In many ways Windows is like McDonalds: It's not the best, it's not the worst, it just fills that hump in the bell curve.

Due to the fact Linux has no marketing department, it's unlikely this will ever change.

Survey says...No.

The only games that don't work are essentially the ones using DRM/anticheat implementations that don't support multiple platforms. Meaning more like 75% of all Windows titles work under Linux just fine.

Games don't always run perfectly under Windows on release either.

I specifically remember one of the CoD games running just long enough to use up all my vram, whereby it would promotly crash. Took about about two weeks to sort that one out.

My tinkering under Linux consists of downloading a game under Steam, ticking a compatibility checkbox, and playing the game. For other launchers, I simply open Bottles and install the launcher of my choosing. Been playing Diablo 4 under Battle.net just fine since launch.

It blows my mind just how bad file system performance is under Windows compared to Linux. I mean, you literally have to have an SSD in order for the OS to be responsive. Granted, most have SSD's these days, but performance on spinning rust shouldn't be that bad.

I've encountered issues swapping a Windows install between machines equipped with an Intel processor to one equipped with a current AMD processor.

In the meantime, my KDE Neon install has been swapped between four different PC's now without a single issue.