Perfect example of the Streisand Effect. I would never have seen this photo if it weren't for this article.

This is definitely something that has been coming for some time. Yes, I am a little surprised it has taken this long for a major channel know for hardware reviews for gamers to take this step... I would have thought that the popularity of the Steam Deck, and all of the handhelds that are now running Linux would have been a motivator.

But it seems that Steve is really seeing that there is more of a progression of people not wanting to go to Windows 11, and the issues surrounding Microsoft's insistence on adding creepy features that no one asked for (like Recall) as the push they needed.

And I agree, Bazzite is probably one of the best choices that they could make. The immutability of the system will allow them to have consistent images that won't change on them randomly. That is a definite requirement when dealing with this type of benchmarking.

What's insane about this is the reporter literally just asked reasonable questions given historical context. Leavitt is a fucking joke.

What timeline are we living in where MTG is actually starting to talk sensibly about some of the bull-puckey that Trump is pulling?

Don't get me wrong - she still is not a good person, in fact she is downright despicable on many levels. But crap, she's actually talking against Trump on two issues now.

But, honestly, I doubt her sincerity on the tariffs issue. It's most likely that she's concerned that the businesses that have been stuffing her pockets for years won't stuff her pockets anymore.

Well, this is definitely a tactic that is a new form of bullying. Sounds like they've been trying this all along, and are using the subpoenas to try to quell dissent. Hopefully the recipients understand this and push back on them. It sounds like the DHS knows that these court orders will not stand up to scrutiny in court and folds at the slightest legal challenge.

But, shame of Meta, Google, et al. for folding so quickly. Another reason to get off, and stay off the commercial media garbage.

I don't know if you were joking or not... But in case you weren't: the Intel guys typically have information about upcoming / unreleased products before the details are out in the open. Yes, the drivers can be maintained by the community when the information is available... But, day one driver support won't be there (since they are generally developed in-house by Intel, and then pushed up to the kernel for release), and community development would (likely) take significantly longer....

And on the Enterprise customer side, there might be some hesitation about adopting newer Intel products that don't have drivers officially supported by the company...at least in environments where Linux would be the (logical) choice... That might lead Enterprises to look at Windows instead of Linux.

I'm just really glad that I don't play any games from EA....

Ahh, yes... Trump's Mar-A-Lap-Dog strikes again... Or should I call her his Judicial Kitty?

Not only do I think this will generate a fair number of CVE's, I think there will be a lot of optimization of the code going on.

Look at what happened with OpenOffice a few years back -- the Oracle buyout of Sun Microsystems forced the forking of OpenOffice to LibreOffice -- during which the new Dev team took the time cleanup and refactor the code. This resulted in a suite that was about 10 percent smaller, and removed a bunch of redundant things (like multiple copies of icons).

I bet we see something similar with Minecraft -- even if it can't be an "authorized" version.

You can hate me for saying this, but there's no way Minecraft shouldn't be on that chart. If this data is right Minecraft Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025), the sales between 2020 and 2023 would be ~100M.

Um, no, this is a cheap Chinese knock off - not something reputable like a Visconti, Waterman, Kaweco, etc. on the site you reference.

Oh! This is just the beginning... Just watch the first Tuesday in November, when a lot of special elections happen. ;)

But, the real stuff won't happen until November, 2026 -- which will be the mid-terms where a bunch of our Senate and Congressional seats will be up for elections...

I would love to see an independent research team go through all the data from these 800m accounts, and determine which ones were actually state actors, and which were just accounts that Musk personally disagrees with.

Worse, there's an outright un-democratic coup in our government right now. It's corruption knows no bounds now... Accountability is just another word that has no meaning.

The rule that use to be the guide was that technology turned over 5-7 years (IIRC). These days, it seems that these companies are working hard to make it three years or less (look at Apple & Google releasing new phones every year or two).

Great to see Steve and the rest of the Gamers Nexus crew supporting the reuse of computers that shouldn't be out of commission.

If we ever wanted more evidence that we're allowing the racists to run ICE, we have it right here:

“After I was violently dragged from my car, I was put in the back of a car with three federal agents, where they laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Rahman said.

I'm just starting to get into Angine de Poitrine.

At this point a shutdown might be for the best -- keep them from changing a bunch of stuff in parts of the government where we aren't looking at.

That's one of the things that really has me nervous -- we're seeing so much crap that they are doing publicly that I am really concerned about the stuff we aren't seeing.

If that's what they are counting, then the graphic should say that...

My question is: how many more people are negatively affected (in a concrete manner, such as this case) by this proliferation of forced garbage?

I would really like to see a study of exactly these kinds of situations done so the larger social impact can be measured. But, it's not only social impact and there may be financial impacts -- such as the need for this woman to go to a hospital, and now the examination of her medications. All of that costs money, and it's likely money that the taxpayer is shouldering the bill for...no matter what country it is happening in.