I think it's the open source nature, but please somebody correct me if I'm wrong. On Windows, they have you install a closed-source rootkit in a closed-source OS. I think cheaters counter this (or at least used to) by running the game in a virtual machine. This allows them to control the virtual hardware the game is running on. Flip the right bits and suddenly the rootkit reports that everything is A-OK despite whatever fuckery the cheater is doing. This is why many modern games refuse to run in virtual machines at all.

With Linux on the other hand, you don't even have to virtualize all the hardware. You can just modify any of your drivers or the rest of the kernel to change or export data that it processes. Game makers don't have a way to ask an OS if the kernel or drivers are unmodified as the concept almost doesn't exist in the Linux world. That is to say that there is no one true unmodified version of a driver or kernel that games could verify. Even if game makers specifically tracked popular distro's release versions, a cheater could always modify and build a kernel to just lie to the game process.

It's always been this cat and mouse game between cheaters and game makers, because the way that almost all games work is by giving all the game data to the player and then relying on the game client to appropriately hide this game data from the human playing. I'm hopeful that one day game makers will figure out and put in the effort into building game servers that only tell their clients the bare minimum information; so a shooter won't tell you anything about opponents you can't yet see and hear. The problem with this is then cheats will get the audio information about where the enemy is and then your hacked client will fully draw them behind the wall.

Why would the government care if you got hair transplants?

Apple already extracts those and offers to fill them in, so I don't think that will be an issue.

No other OS injects popup ads on top of the browser begging you not to switch. In other places they insist their default choices are better for you.

You must not be getting what amounts to a full-app popup for a quality survey after every other call like I do. I have surveys turned off yet they still come. The surveys aren't even created well. Now I go and check the box that audio issue was that the other person couldn't hear me which is true because they didn't answer and I got voicemail.

"bricked offline functionality" get the fuck out of here. Do I have to explain what a brick is? Removing some functionality is not bricking. The summary even later says that the machines will actually be bricked if the company disappears.

My company tried to buy them out. They responded:

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• Too Broad: Your offer attempts to encompass infrastructure, talent, branding, and existential philosophy in a single transaction. Please narrow the scope to a specific, answerable acquisition.
• Duplicate: This is a duplicate of several prior offers we've already declined. Please consult [closed: Why hasn't Stack Overflow sold out yet?].
• Opinion-Based: Statements such as “We think we’d be a good fit culturally” are inherently subjective and not suitable for this kind of transaction.
• Needs Reproducible Example: You’ve failed to provide a line-item financial breakdown, term sheet, or any working prototype of post-acquisition community support. We require a MCVE.
• Unclear What You’re Asking: “Let’s talk synergies” is not a clear action item.
• Off-Topic: We do not currently accept offers relating to the acquisition of community-driven Q&A platforms. This belongs on corporate-takeovers.meta.stackexchange.com.
• Contains AI-generated Content: While parts of your proposal were cleverly worded, we detected traces of ChatGPT hallucination. Please edit the offer to reflect your own due diligence.

If you believe this closure was in error, feel free to [edit] your offer to meet community standards and flag for moderator review.

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“Not every problem belongs here.”

If you hadn't stopped at docker you'd see the non-docker install instructions directly underneath.

It's at the bottom under System Requirements:

Even the Strogg had personnel present and running the automated stroggification surgery equipment. Are we the stroggies?

Are there any deals for computing devices that don't type angled quotes? Asking for a friend.

Please don't tell them how to fix this. It makes it easy for me to know whose opinion to ignore at a glance.

Maybe they wanted to broaden their palate. Try some foreign cuisine.