we shall never know

and steam is the largest game store, but that’s not what i was talking about.

microsoft’s money doesn’t come just from windows, and from seeing how shitty it has (and will) become, they want to get more money from it than they already have. that could be because windows doesnt produce enough money for microsoft or for other reasons.

google’s money comes from advertisements. as google grew to be used everywhere, there needed to be a better way to get money from it, so they started doing more advertising.

just like google’s search engine, firefox doesn’t produce money by itself. but mozilla didn’t have any other means of producing money, so they had to do something else for that, even if it didn’t work.

valve’s money comes from the games and items sold in steam. people aren’t going to stop producing or buying games and in-game items any time soon.

all of the other companies had to change their main way to produce money, because that wasn’t producing enough money. but if valve changes anything they’ll just be shooting themselves in the foot, because steam already produces an almost ulimited amount of money for valve.

doesnt gabe already do basically nothing though? afaik there are other people managing valve and he only acts as valve’s face

also theyd have to be extremely stupid to start enshittification when they already have the best ways to monetize games (skins in cs2, hats in tf2, etc)

im not saying its not possible, im just a very optimistic person

here it is, the BTW download file:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/5cc02178-e0aa-4dc3-9fb8-350dc0547f50.jpeg

ight thx

the animations man… they really just made me hate those people

yeah if its a good program you can use it, even if it’s made by horrible people

one example is templeos. everyone likes it, even if the guy who made it was an asshole

though hyprland is different since you can donate, but like you said, you can just not donate to them!

also nice name and pfp

i too use Big Thinking Walrus, BTW

popos is the one thats amazing for nvidia card havers right?

oh so thats what the .ml means

lmao people think just because its satire it cant be clickbait, or that the clickbait won’t work as clickbait

so, hyperbole is about exaggerating stuff to make it humorous. the title and thumbnail look exactly like any other clickbaity video hating a distro would look like, meaning it fails that completely.

of course though, the video might do that pretty well, but i won’t watch it. though if someone has something to say about the video, feel free to do so.

so, about the title and thumbnail (i havent watched and won’t watch the video):

satire doesnt work if what you do is the same as everyone else. like, if you’re gonna make fun of someone by mimicking them satirically, you’re supposed to be more extreme than whatever the person is doing.

this doesn’t do that. it mimics the stuff it’s trying to make fun of way too well, so it just looks like a normal clickbaity video about hating a linux distro.