It's not just no tracking — It's no surprises.

This is hilarious. Next year, the PC gamers will be saying "The best Windows gaming experience is win32 on Linux on macOS Containers".

The fastest (Geekbench 6) Windows laptop in the world is actually an M5 Max Macbook running Parallels running Windows.

I think there's one too many layers of graphics driver indirection for this to work

Wine works fine on macOS, there is no need for a Linux layer.

I mean at this point literally anything works better than Windows.

Except game development, hence Proton.

it always gets a sad chuckle out of me to hear that some native linux ports run worse than the windows version under proton. i think valve games are like that (l4d2 for example) and recently I think Hollow Knight: Silksong was like that

I think at this point native linux ports are somewhat a thing of the past. The problem was that the ports were usually contracted out to a 3rd party and rarely updated or cared for that much. There was also the issue that they often relied on dynamically linked libraries provided by the distro rather than static linked libraries bundled with the game. So stuff that did work would break on distro updates.

The proton model has the benefit that bugs on linux can be fixed by Valve and the Wine community. While bugs in an official linux port can only be fixed by the game publisher which rarely happened. There also seems to be virtually no downsides to running a Windows game in Proton. These days I don't even bother checking the Wine DB or proton rating because unless the game is deliberately blocking linux via anti cheat, it will just work.

The irony that without Windows there are no Linux games, eventually Linux folks will learn about OS/2 history in regards to Windows compatibility features.

Linux will stay forever a headless operating system great for embedded, server rooms and containers.

We have all limited time on Earth, and eventually Valve won't be around as it used to be, might even be acquired, sold, whatever, then what in regards to Linux gaming?

Wine existed before Proton, Valve made it better but the project doesn't rely on Valve. Currently Linux is the best gaming experience. Zero bloat or nagware, everything just works. It's just ironic Wine/Proton ended up being the best platform for gaming on Linux. I don't think anyone expected it to run so well with virtually no performance impact.

Now with the Fex project, it might end up that running Windows games on linux on a modern ARM processor could be the best way to game going forward, especially for mobile platforms like the SteamDeck.

The best gaming experience are Switch, PlayStation, XBox, iOS, Android, the very definition of everything just works, and no kernel drivers to worry about.

You just listed concrete hardware (with the exception of Android). That's a category error, of course a fixed hardware with specialized software will have less inconsistencies.

You would be happier if I listed the respective OSes instead?

microsoft.com/devbox

Nor f.lux, the warm light software that got Sherlocked by every major OS.

https://justgetflux.com/

Nor the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future.

Nor the famed Good Will Hunting and Argo actor and director, Ben Afflux

Nor the Cartoon Network show (and later movie) Aeon Flux.

I think it originally aired on MTV.

Nor the streaming service Net Flux

Nor the continuous delivery K8s tool. https://fluxcd.io/

Man that’s a blast from the past; used to be one of my fav apps.

Sure, corporations would _never_ get into the real estate market...

Could I use Cloudflare's free nameservers instead of Amazon Lightsail?

Cloudflare only supports managing top level domains on the Free plan.

Running Android, not Gentoo.

Not quite Android: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112299

They weren't feeling "book.google"?

They bought that TLD and then never did anthing fun with it. I can forgive them for not doing https://google, since that's discouraged apparently, but not even fonts.google? docs.google? mail.google? Apparently once upon a time you could do com.google for an April Fools prank but they didn't even keep a basic redirect. The only thing they ever permanently used it for (afaik) was domains.google, and they sold that to Squarespace. Why even spend the money?

They have several.

https://blog.google

https://ai.google

https://about.google

https://environment.google

https://safety.google

and a few others

the pattern seems to be that all of these don't use your google account, i suppose their system (through cookies or something similar) depends on the domain google.com somehow.

I do this occasionally, but am fine with using Bambu's integrated Slicer and Remote Control software. It works well enough.