There won't be a HL3, but yes they are still making new games. Valve released a teaser for a god damn Card Game based on Dota2 universe, that will be available in 2018.
Valve has no interest in releasing HL3, and that's why they never, ever spoke about it.
I hope I'm wrong, but probably not.

You do realize that most people don't need to create complex spreadsheets, right? LibreOffice Calc, or even Google Spreadsheets will do just fine, then.
You know what is a real piece of garbage? Notepad.exe

Yes. Otherwise Dell wouldn't be selling them.

Both will play the cat video, right? So, your point is...

Which both can access... email, social media and messaging services. Which is what most people need anyway.

Let's face it, Windows is becoming less and less needed, which is good :)

Because Microsoft is good.
Linyos Torovoltos is the evil.
Proof: http://www.adequacy.org/public...

Indeed, that's what I did on my laptop :)
But unfortunately lots of people don't even know what "Linux" is...

> Seeking compensation for lost wages and the cost of a new computer

And the new computer will come with... Windows 10.

GG

All started because of this bug report, back in 2010 (!). Mark Shuttleworth itself replied many times there explaining why moving the Unity Launcher was never going to be a thing, because of design goals. And now we finally have it.

All internet providers in Brazil started blocking Whatsapp (I don't know why). It's back online now, because another judge got it to revoke the other judge's decision. Welcome to Brazil, I guess.

> the service of course remains accessible through Wi-Fi.

Wrong. The service is only available in Brazil if you use VPN or if your multinational company's internet goes trough an overseas firewall.

> One of my primary suspects for the difference is the video card - how well optimized are the Linux drivers?

One million times better (for games) than 2 year ago, thanks to Valve.

Yeah, because there's only one version of Windows.
Nope.
Just an example, when Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released, Ahead Nero had to release an emergency update because their CD burning software simply stopped working on XPSP2, which worked just fine on XPSP1.

Developing for Android is as easy as developing for Windows. Maybe even easier for Android.

> the cheerleaders will still not care. ;-)

But the Korean cheerleaders will care. A lot :-)

Dota 2 pays more (15kk USD on last international tournament).
Dota 2 is more balanced.
Dota 2 is truly F2P (all heroes available from start).

I don't think LoL is suitable for a competitive environment.