Yes. Valve (Steam) spent more than a decade building and refining a translation layer called Proton. Nearly 80% of the vast Steam library is now compatible with Linux to the point they are releasing actual Linux consoles (Steam Deck and Steam Machine).
For your regular PC, you can install a gaming-focused distribution like Bazzite to get everything sorted out automatically.
80% is really impressive, but another way to state it is that 20% of the games you try won't work. I don't think I'd put up with that if I was a gamer. I guess maybe it's not evenly distributed. Do a higher percentage of the most popular games work?
That 20% is mostly covered by competitive online multiplayer games that use kernel-level anti-cheat systems which will only work on Windows. There's not a whole lot Valve can do about that, other than continuing to push Linux for gaming and hope that it gets popular enough to create an incentive for anti-cheat providers to start targeting Linux as well.
I never understood why game devs don't just segregate players based on their anti-cheat status. Have a setting in the game like "only play with anti-cheat verified players" that defaults to yes.
That way Linux gamers can still play with other Linux gamers if they want (and cheaters).
Not an ideal situation but probably better than nothing.
I think that would make Linux players into second-class citizens who could only play in a pool that is 90+% filled with Windows cheaters.
Segregating into two pools: Windows-verified, or Linux-unverified, would probably not work for Linux users either. It'd be the same problem (on a smaller scale) as not including kernel anticheat in Windows. No fun for the non-cheaters.
I'm not a gamer though, so I may be missing important details.
I think it's largely to do with the whether the games are PvP multiplayer or not. I.e. many such games have anti-cheat systems that embed in the Windows kernel (or something like that - my Windows internals knowledge is... slim).
I assert that most people who're happy running Linux on their desktop (for games or productivity or development) do not overlap much with the people who're happy to take kernel patches from UbiFuckingSoft. And this includes those people who're willing to take closed-source NVIDIA drivers.
Games with kernel-mode anti-cheat consistently don't work and probably never will (barring them having it removed or made optional). Titles released more recently are more likely to not work simply due to not having had fixes applied to them, although a rather large amount of newer games work fine out of the box if they aren't doing weird stuff. Other than that it's a toss-up, since while it's usually the same few things that prevent games from working properly on Linux, it's not something you as Jonothan S. Gamer will know about unless you go and do research and check ProtonDB and whatnot.
A good rule of thumb is that single player games generally just™ work and that older games generally just™ work.
You didn't mention a reason, but why wouldn't you just switch to Firefox? It will give you back control of your own web experience and allow you to fiddle with everything you can imagine in the settings and/or about:config.
Or maybe try one of the any Chrome derivatives that may have less dark patterns like De-googled Chromium or even Brave?
That page is awful at explaining the subscription and I'm not surprised you were confused by it. The subscription is actually for teachers using the projection/emulator software, not for normal users of the calculator.
That's usually how these things go. No one is going to everyone's house to remove their stoves, regardless of how accurate the claims of their dangers.
Instead, they abolish the sale of new gas stoves and, as the old ones stop working with age, eventually they disappear altogether.
I believe that's how there's still old buildings with an asbestos treatment or old water pipes made out of lead kind of all over the place. It was widespread at first, then the issues became known, then they were forbidden from being sold, and eventually the existing old ones are replaced as opportunity allows.
Since low income people don’t occupy new construction, and given that gas stoves last for many decades, this is legislation that won’t have any impact for another 20 or 30 years? Besides the impact on wealthy foodies who want good stovetops in the kitchen remodels?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with tables when properly used for data.
The problem being described is that, in the early 00's, there was no easy way to make column layouts with CSS due to IE6 and CSS's own lack of good column handling rules, other than float: left and (later) display: inline-block. This led to most people in web development to produce their page layouts by stacking tables within tables within tables because the end result would visually work properly in every browser. This was, however, an awful way to produce semantic content not to mention the inherit accessibility issues.
Thankfully, by 2006, nearly everyone had already been exposed to the likes of CSS Zen Garden and learned how to workaround with CSS issues to make layout with block elements instead of tables within tables.
Yup, no grid, no flex, the only way to ensure your chopped up photoshop design would work was with tables.
Now we don’t use images for everything, we use CSS/iconography/typography/styles. Back then though we didn’t have a whole lot of options in CSS so we used images EVERYWHERE! Drop shadow, that’s a transparent png image. Gradients, jpgs. Animations, gifs. Want to play a video? Real player or flash. It was crude, it was hard, and it was a compatibly nightmare.
I was explaining how we used to add drop shadows on web pages to one of the younger members of our team a month or two ago and they found it hilarious. An image sliced up into several bits, a table (often embedded in another table) and various other hacks to make everything line up nicely versus a single line of CSS now.
It was rough early-on. You could do complex layouts with hacks but they worked inconsistently on each browser, CSS itself was inconsistent across browsers, vendor prefixes all over the place. Remember the 'holy grail' layout of three columns, header and footer? Trivial in CSS Grid of course, but practically impossible without tables before.
It's insane to think now that including your good reasons to avoid them one was also that apparently they slowed down the browser doing the layout. Never experienced it but I'm certain some important figures explained it.
Now everything is so slow with all that latest js fad that it sounds like a meme. Things being clunky and slow are accepted.
>There's absolutely nothing wrong with tables when properly used for data.
No, the most annoying thing with front end is new front end developer trying to convert data grip that is obviously meant for tables to divs. Seems like young people trying to be cool to not use tables. Use freaking tables when it is looks like grid, div for other stuff.
> His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.
Because Byuu, who later went by "Near", tried to scrub as much personal information from the internet in the hopes of staying ahead of constant doxing attacks by an awful internet community called KiwiFarms. It didn't work. In the end, Near/Byuu committed suicide months ago to escape the constant harassment.
The free speech Alamo. It often leads to funny results, like lesbians finding it to be the only place they could complain about some psycho in Canada targeting women operating small businesses - Youtube and Twitter banned several people over it before the Canadian media started covering it. Sometimes it leads to not so funny results, because that is the cost of agency - its kinda crazy that even has to be pointed out... but we seem to be at that point.
Holy shit, I didn't know. I'm sorry, I'm shocked and just don't know what to say. Thanks byuu for all your work. Hope you find peace. You will be remembered.
What were they thinking? That most people wouldn't know or understand the implications over centralizing all things to better collect information. For Google, they turned an old adage into becoming one of the wealthiest companies in the world with the full understanding that besides government regulations, nothing's stopping them.
"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility."
--Robin Morgan
Ah, yes, I too use Bing to search for images of a specific nature with some frequency. It's quite likely the best search engine available for the... higher arts.
I do not know if they have done it on purpose, but kudos to the Bing team either way.
For your regular PC, you can install a gaming-focused distribution like Bazzite to get everything sorted out automatically.