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Comment Re:you missed Bill Gate's memo (Score 1) 12

yep, rich people think like that...
if i had their money, i would probably also not be much concerned... even if some mansions burn up or get razed by some hurricane, they have lot money and mansions, they just move the the next one. The billionaires also have enough money to buy food, even if the price increase 100x. So yes, the billionaires can thrive in the worst effects of most things... as long as their money have any value.

Comment Re:Using a very loose (Score 1) 83

while several of important multiplayer games fail to work due to the anti-cheat, saying that the most big games do not run is false, many big games do run fine

https://www.protondb.com/explo...

top 50 played games in steam, 8 do not work in linux, at least 2 of them are actually windows apps to mess with the background

yes, the games that fail are big, but there are many other big games that work. play those instead and inform the owners of the games you failed to play their game because of the lack of linux support... is up to them to fix this

Comment Re:Using a very loose (Score 2) 83

actually most big games actually run too... the problem in those are some companies that do not allow anti-cheat to run... so you can play single player, enter a multiplayer for some seconds and them kicked out due to the anti-cheat detecting something not allowed (ie: linux)
almost all anti-cheat do work in linux (some new kernel level ones do not, but they can also not enable that awful feature), companies have to choose to allow or not linux... and some actually choose to not allow it, for weird reasons

Rainbow Six works perfectly in local matches... enter online and the anti-cheat will kick you out

enter https://www.protondb.com/dashb... , select top 100 games and you will see that you have 7 borked games, 5 bronze and if you want, 5 silver... in 100, so the other 83 run perfectly in linux

so if you want a game that doesn't run in linux due to anti-cheat, nag the game company to allow it

Comment Re:Using a very loose (Score 1) 83

if it runs so slowly, it would not get that score, that is borked!, silver in best change
while there are some exceptions, speed is not a issue anymore in proton, many games even run faster in linux than in windows! most are within the +- 10%
important games even see special debug and optimizations, being common in the changelog to see "10% increase in performance for game X by solving some minor issue" (usually races, errors, game assuming some behaviour, etc)

Comment Re:Greed Grows Like Cancer (Score 1) 91

is already doing that

for USA, profits above all, even if it cost quality or market share
for China, build a stable market is above all (ie: can run without or low profits for long time, as long as it growing or have constant demand, profits can come later when there is less competition), cheap low quality was the beginning, they slowly are getting higher quality and getting more market

unless the company goal returns to be happy customers, leaving behind the goal of happy shareholders and stock market, USA will spiral down quickly. right now almost only the big tech companies are the ones still winning, everything else is dying

Comment Re:Good move (Score 1) 146

i do not know the wps format, but the opendocument is a zip with xml files inside with the schema published online... being easier and open than this is hard.
They probably don't use opendocument for the same reason MS don't use it... to try to push their own software... but wps did open and save opendocuments the last time i tried it (long ago, so if it can't, maybe i'm confusing it with other software)

for pdf, use pdf-a format, that will solve most of the pdf issues directly

Comment Re:Why not OpenDocument Format? (Score 4, Informative) 146

Notice, i'm nor USA nor Chinese, but you must learn that saying things when looking to only one side will make you look stupid!
Now lets turn the table, with some minor changes to your text:

Yep. USA is employing economic screws to promote state power ... as has every city/state/nation since Gobekli-Tepi. It's all good ... and China should return the favor by rejecting ALL/ANY USA manufactured products or raw materials. Shut-down trading that has never been in China interests. If required China can go to a temporary war-time footing and refuse to sell everything to the USA or to "affiliated" partners. USA workers would see huge inflation and no good to buy and SA/Canada would finally get the USA attention they deserve as middle men to buy required Chinese products to keep their country to work. Some chinese economic sectors would suffer: no problemo, the state can cope with those losses. To repeat ... USA screws us we screw them ... all's fair.

go view this youtube and learn how impossible what you said would be, all because the USA profit margins are more important than the country and population and in the end, you may end dig your own grave...with a chinese build shovel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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