We were? I wasn’t

bad translation btw. In portuguese we say “sistema operativo”, thus the error

Ahh my bad, bad translation

It’s the thing that lets you do the things in your electronic thing

My dad has a bunch of old friends that elected me to be their tech support, which makes me have to explain the basics of the basics most of the time. Trust me when I say that a lot of people in these forums have no idea how tech illiterate some people are.

I had a situation years ago where an old guy asked me to reset his android phone. I - unfortunately - complied because I made the mistake of trusting that he knew what he was asking, so I just made sure everything was backed up on his cloud. Result: he lost access to his photos, numbers, etc because he had no idea that he had a gmail account associated to his phone. Fortunately, his daughter knew and remembered the password so he recovered them.

Another situation I had with another guy was having to explain why stremio wouldn’t work on his iphone while his friends (with androids) could use it. Without going into details, he didn’t know what an “OS” was.

Let me repeat it because it’s relevant to this post: the guy didn’t know what an Operative System was. And he’s hardly alone.

In these kind of tech forums, I found that a lot of users don’t truly grasp how tech illiterates can be (and sometimes confuse that for lack of intelligence, but that’s another discussion). It’s hard for them to understand how most people don’t care what OS they are running. A lot of people will continue to use Windows 10 and not care they don’t receive more updates, as far as they are concerned, it still works and lets them do their stuff.

In Portugal, it appears as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”

Long story short, there were two main issues that people had with Epic:

• they made exclusivity a thing inside pc platform (this was the main issue for most people)
• Tim Sweeney is generally disliked

The first issue speaks for itself. The second needs a bit more context.

Tim Sweeney has an history of being arbitrary. One year he says one thing, the next another. Relevant to this case, Tim was openly against PC gaming back in the day, while Valve was pushing for PC gaming. We’re talking around 2010, where console gaming was predominant, most publisher favored consoles against PC. Valve at the time was one of the few companies betting on the PC platform.

Now, he’s suddenly pro PC gaming. People see this as him doing a 180, and trying to take the spoils from Valve’s work.

Then there were also some comments that he made that aged like milk, but generally speaking this is why people take an issue with Epic but not Steam

This sub is delusional

This meme says:

• windows 8 somehow is more beloved than Windows 10 (lmao)
• linux is just one single OS, instead of an agglomerate of hundreds of distributions
• and implies that every single one of them got better with time (lmao)

Who made this meme forgot about android lol

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I’m not involved with the original drama - nor do I want to entertain it to begin with - but good on you guys for being transparent

When I saw the thumbnails, I legit thought that this game was some kind of spin off from guardians of the galaxy

Rage bait

Respectefully disagree. Reasonable would’ve been making it opt in, not opt out and justifying it with “would be too difficult to explain”.

It already exists: ₿

He was caught with loli porn during a stream by accident. It didn’t help his optics.

Complacency does that to you

Nokia knows