They are not a company.
They definitely are.
FreedomAdvocate
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Nothing changes for anyone that isn't HOSTING a plex server, and most of those people would already have a Plex Pass due to the benefits it gives.
but for regular shit at ~40fps and 1080p
it would be perfectly fine.
That's not "perfectly fine" to most people, especially PC players.
Gotta remember that some of us are reaching 40 years old, with kids, and don’t really give a shit about maxing out the 1% lows.
Already there myself. I don't care about maxing out the 1% lows, but I care about reaching a minimum of 60fps average at the bare minimum, preferably closer to 100 - and definitely higher than 1080p. Us oldies need more p's than that with our bad eyesight haha
Factor in having to instruct everyone to download the app and create an account rather than just go to a URL you can access from any device anywhere and put in your show/movie/song and in a few minutes you have it.
You don't have to download an app for Overseerr to add things. It's just a URL you can access from any device anywhere (assuming you've got a domain etc like you must for your web app) and put in your show/movie and in a few minutes you have it.
Overseerr doesn’t monitor my services either, or whatever else I want to do.
It does when you set it up.
No skin off my back, don't use it for all I care - I was just pointing out that a fantastic ready made service already exists for that.
Most Call of Duty games work on linux, you’re gonna have to be more specific as to which particular one of like 25 you mean by ‘COD’.
I was more specific - I said COD MP as in multiplayer, as in the current COD Multiplayer that people play, which all have anti-cheat that doesn't work on Linux. Warzone, again, doesn't work on Linux.
The ones that don’t, they don’t work because the devs are too lazy or incompetent (or specifically told not to by their bosses) to make an AntiCheat that isn’t a rootkit with full access to your entire PC.
Because without full access to your PC, anti-cheat is essentially useless and easily bypassed by cheaters.
I used to play GTA V Online (and RDR2, and FiveM, and RedM…) on linux all the time, literally for years… untill they just decided to ban all linux players.
Because of cheaters.
Kernel Anti Cheat that only works on Windows?
Yep, that’s just a complicated way to enforce Windows exclusivity in PC games.
It's also one of the only ways to try to stop cheaters.
The idea that all linux gamers are malicious hackers is a laughable, obviously false idea
That's not an idea that anyone is saying though, other than you right now. The idea is that without that kernel level protection you can't even hope to stop a high percentage of cheats.
You are right that you can’t run games with rootkit anticheats on linux though, so if those heavily monetized and manipulative games with toxic playerbases are your addiction of choice, yep, sorry, linux ain’t your hookup for those.
So like I said, the most popular, most played games on every platform (apart from linux) every year.
Again, this is another game platform freedom advocacy issue, and also a personal information security advocacy issue, not a ‘something is wrong with linux’ issue.
It is a "something is wrong with linux" issue if Linux doesn't allow/provide for something that game developers - and game players - want, which is anti-cheat that does the absolute best it can to stop cheaters.
Also every Playstation (and Xbox) game eventually comes to PC, so unless you’re so impatient that you have to play the latest games right fucking now, there’s no reason to own a console.
This isn't true yet (the games thing). Playstation haven't brought or even suggested that they'll bring every game to PC. Microsoft are, sure, which is amazing - but Sony very much still want to protect their walled garden of consoles. Playstation, more specifically the 30% cut they get of all game sales, and their online subscription fees, are the only thing keeping Sony afloat. If sony were to go full PC like MS, Playstation and Sony would go down like the Titanic.
As for the "there's no reason to own a console", eh I see the point and I agree to an extent but I also disagree. My Series X's UI is just so much better than any PC UI, not to mention the features. Quick resume for one is an absolute game changer, and it's not on PC. Everything that you could ever want to do while playing online is just so much easier to do on a console than on a PC. I say this as someone who plays more and more on PC these days, and wishes I could boot my PC into a Xbox OS type UI.
So, forced Bitlocker, forced obsolescence of otherwise still viable hardware, forced online accounts, and having Copilot/Recall shoved down your throat for the versions of that OS that a normal consumer can legally and readily obtain, make Win11 the best PC OS?
Forced security, oh no.....Forced obsolescence? No hardware is being made obsolete, it will keep working just fine. Forced online accounts that are only needed once for login a single time? Oh no, the horror. Not to mention that the "forced online account" saves your bitlocker encryption key on it, so you can recover your data if your hardware gets destroyed. Copilot and Recall aren't the same thing. They are OS features that you can turn off if you want. Some people actually like them too!
Those aren't the things that make Win11 the best PC OS, they're just things that you don't like that you think make it bad - but you're overlooking everything that make it good.
Highest rated != most played or most popular.
COD MP.
Warzone.
Fortnite.
GTA Online.
Not on Linux.
Running out of support windows is nothing new. The point was that people would rather do that than switch to Linux. People aren’t leaving to Linux instead any great numbers.
Cheaper is attractive to consumers. Linux instead of Windows isn’t.
Of course windows 10 isn’t going away anytime soon. The point is that people aren’t leaving windows for Linux.
Literally nothing changes for me, the plex server host, or any of the people streaming from my server though. Nothing at all. Nothing is ruined, nothing has started to be ruined. I don't have to pay any more money, none of my friends and family have to pay any money.
Until Jellyfin no longer maintain it and change to a closed source product that they want to make money from.
Plex's own "cloud" that they "force" on you is part of what makes Plex the success that it is, and it costs them money to maintain.