The meme about Valve/Steam “does nothing, keeps winning” is mostly true (I don’t think the average gamer knows about Valve’s contributions to FOSS).

Because of Fortnite EGS has a very big installed base. People added their friends on Epic because of Fortnite. And yet gamers buy other games on Steam instead. That may have something to do with the fact that the main page of EGS mainly promotes Epic’s own games, whereas Steam promotes third party games first.

“In May 2020, it was reported that the newly elected politicians in Munich, while not going back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux wholesale, will prefer Free Software for future endeavours.”

So you lied. You claimed that Munich said “Hell no” to Microsoft Migration but here you spell it out yourself: The politicians did sell out to Microsoft and only newly elected politicians partially reversed it.

They use Windows and MS Office on desktops to this day and use Linux on servers and some FOSS tools ON WINDOWS DESKTOPS.

I was right, you lied.

People who still use WinRAR kinda deserve that. Seriously. WinRAR in 2026? Like WTF.

Fuck their monopoly!

Interesting monopoly when the world’s biggest PC games – Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite – aren’t even on Steam.

You first

Are you afraid to provide any reference to your claim? Do you need extra time making up stuff?

“Die 43 000 städtischen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter nutzen also mittlerweile wieder Word, Outlook und PowerPoint […] Einfacher sei die Software-Frage bei den Servern im städtischen Rechenzentrum zu beantworten. Zwar haben man durchaus auch Windows-Server, aber die meisten laufen mit Linux, so Gernhardt.” (29. Juni 2025) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-verwaltung-open-source-it-microsoft-li.3256886

So Linux on servers, Windows including MS Office on desktops. The migration to Linux on desktops was completely reversed.

So where is ““hell no!” (prob in German) and continued the Linux rollout”? Where has it been “garbage misinformation”? Where are the exact stats about opening tickets? After all, you claim “Linux users filling only 40% the number of tickets the Windows users did”. That’s pretty specific.

Citation Needed

they have loads of patents that are hard to avoid

China doesn’t care about patents of outsiders.

Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back.

Look up LiMux and the massive Microsoft deal that followed.

By that logic 90% of the world would use preowned iPhones. People use Android because they like Android more than iOS.

Android powers the vast majority of the world’s phones and yet Google is still aping Apple.

you seem to be looking to argue for the sake of arguing.

I provided backing to your point and now I’m looking to argue with you? Yeah, whatever…

I’m not sure why you are sharing that with me, personally. My comment was aimed at people who are complaining about the prices.

Are comments only allowed when one disagrees?

All physical

Not all Switch 2 upgrades get physical releases.

I mean the people who have bought the Switch 2 knew beforehand that the prices are ridiculous.

And I knew prices would only rise. That’s why I bought the console day 1.

Because a PC tells the OS what hardware is present. Phones do not, that’s why there is no hardware detection.

Nobody forces phone makers to support the standard that would just do that: https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/systemready-compliance-program

DeX is more often used on Samsung tablets with attached keyboard. I didn’t check but I assume it’s being merged with Android’s upstream desktop mode.

The term “desktop” has more than one meaning and in the context of which operating systems are used on desktops, it certainly includes laptops. 😉

Samsung DeX = desktop Linux. You heard it here first, folks.

Maybe OP is annoyed?

There is only one piece of software named Linux and that’s the kernel. Android is as much a legitimate distribution of Linux as is Alpine Linux.

Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.

The differentiator is glibc. That’s what defines binary compatibility. Ubuntu still used glibc, Android uses Bionic.