196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone Andromeda @beehaw.org 3d ago

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lmao, what if single game distros, purely optimized to run a single game with only the dependencies needed to launch and run it.
- Unreal Tournament 2003 actually came with a bootable DVD that would boot directly into Linux and run the game.
  
  Fast forward 20 years and Epic actively hates Linux because Valve is improving it
  
  Wait, what?
- That was a thing for DOS systems. Hell, for the Apple II, NES, and a bunch of other systems it was the only way to launch a program
- People have been crazy enough to try.
  
  This is the only time I've ever been tempted to cheat
- like on some sort of console?
  
  Even consoles these days require you to install files onto the machine before it'll play...
  
  modern consoles run a lot more than one game, not even just games.
- Maybe with an autoexec.bat and a config.sys as plain-text files in the game distribution, so that you can still set up your network configuration, CD drive and sound card?
  
  wouldn't that make it only work on windows? or dos, even?
First real practical use for UEFI.
- YEARS OF BOOTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything other than BIOS
  
  LOOK at what UEFI Forum have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the motherboards & computer we built for them
  
  (This is REAL Firmware, done by REAL Computer Scientists)
  
  They have played us for absolute fools
- Hey, there's plenty of benefits to UEFI! You can boot from different partitions of the same drive without setting up grub, you can uhh.. um.... you can use the mouse
  
  there were actual BIOS programs that can be interacted with a mouse :)
good os. huge fan

luv tr ria <3
What the fuck? Why would Steam have access to the ESP
- I imagine it doesn’t have write access. Unless OP is running Steam as root, in which case RIP.
  
  Me when I was too lazy to properly set up Arch:
- it could pop up with a graphical sudo prompt...

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