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by Joker_vD 1060 days ago
Hey, that sounds like a package manager!
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danhor 1060 days ago
My package manager certainly doesn't sync settings and save files between multiple systems. But I'd be interested in one that does!
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c-hendricks 1060 days ago
My package manager doesn't let me stream games to my other devices

My package manager doesn't have a nice controller-support UI

My package manager doesn't let me set up controller mappings

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Joker_vD 1060 days ago
Well, that's kinda my unstated serious point in that joking comment: Steam, in a sense, is a package manager but a much better one in many ways so asking to abandon Steam for the system-provided package manager (which may not even exist if we're talking about pre-Store Windows) is quite flippant.
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hoten 1060 days ago
It shows a huge disregard for non-technical users. Very just-use-Wireguard (tail scale) or just-ftp-rsync-your-data (Dropbox).
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johnnyanmac 1059 days ago
No, but you can download apps via a package manager for all of that. Or use steam anyway?

I'm very confused why people these days are so happy letting one big company manage their entire library and history. Did we not learn from the 2010's?

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