Time, and time again, they prove how piracy is literally THE only option when it comes to preserving media.

This really grinds my gears. Every company is always complaining about piracy, just to add invasive DRM and/or crappy measures that only ever hurt the consumer.

Some might not act like this is a big deal because those codes typically come with a physical disc, but when you bought the disc you actually bought TWO copies, the physical disc AND the digital code.

What if you sold your code to someone else? GONE. What if you sold your disc? GONE.

This should be illegal but unfortunately they can update their crappy EULA's that say something along the lines of "By using our service you agree to--", and there goes your media that you "own forever".

What a joke.

I'm still in shock how quickly they have progressed.

As of right now, both Citra and Yuzu are available via Flathub!!! Get them now if you don't have it!!!

If you're only going to pick Pop!_OS or Manjaro, I'd suggest you go with Pop!_OS. The Manjaro team has been very weird, and made some poor decisions in recent years. I've had a very good experience messing around with Pop on an Nvidia GPU.

#1. (RTFM) Read the Megathread, it has all the trusted sites you'll likely need unless you're getting into to very niche things.

#2. Use a VPN. Mullvad is great but they recently removed port-forwarding so if you care about port-forwarding I recommend going with something like ProtonVPN (paid).

#3. Bind your VPN to your torrent client. (I recommend using QBittorrent)

#4. Also, for music, I recommend you look into soulseek.

Edit: Read @GrievingWidow420@feddit.it's reply to this comment. They give helpful information that I completely spaced to add into my original comment.

As of right now Citra and Yuzu are both available via Flathub!! If you want them there's still time!!!!

LMAO. Microsoft really made Windows Server and won't even use that crap themselves.

The Citra team is the same team behind Yuzu, so yes they are both gone. It's a sad day today.

I personally prefer to use Flatpaks over traditional packages because of the added security, sandboxing, and overall convenience of not having to deal with dependency hell. It's especially nice being able to have proprietary applications sandboxed from the rest of my system without worrying that Steam is snooping on my 'super-important-tax-documents'.

Flatpaks are also very useful for having up-to-date packages on distros like Debian, and it's derivatives. People can still use their preferred distro without having to worry about not getting a certain update, feature, bug fix, etc, for their applications.

Being able to restrict what applications have access to is a game-changer for me. A lot of times Flatpaks, by default, have very lenient permissions, and with the use of Flatseal I can restrict it to my liking. Worried about Audacity's telemetry?? Turn network permissions off. Now, not all applications will work well (or at all) without internet connectivity, but for applications like Audacity, it works great!! Flatpaks can also be very useful for developers.

That's not to say that Flatpaks are without their fair share of issues. Are they bloated?? Yeah, and although it's not an issue for me, it may be for some people. Desktop integration is, meh. Themes, and fonts don't always integrate the best. (A while back there were issues with Flatpak's sandbox, but I won't touch on that because I need to refresh my mind on it, and it was actively being developed to fix those issues so it possibly isn't even an issue anymore.)

Overall I think Flatpaks are absolutely wonderful.

RIP our wallets 😓

You should be fine. Yuzu checks the Github repo for updates which is now down. If you're still worried you could download it via Flathub and disable network access via Flatseal or terminal.

Fr. Had me thinking ASUS Motherboards. Really had me going there😅

Too bad I'm on Linux.

THANK YOU!!

Yes. It means we have better compatibility with DirectX shaders on Linux. It enables a unified shader development workflow across platforms. Developers can focus on HLSL without worrying about different shader languages for Windows and Linux.

The team behind Yuzu was also the team behind Citra so unfortunately Citra is gone as well. But Citra has also been forked so source code is still available.

TLDR; It started as a young teen who just wanted to get games for free; It continues because companies don't giving two flying hoots about me.

Currently, I pirate because I can't rightfully give any money to these anti-consumer companies that will only victimize me. I can't own anything anymore, and this absolutely frustrates me. If I could own the media I purchase, I wouldn't pirate anymore. (by this I mean I wouldn't pirate the media I consume. I'd still data hoard because it's a literal addiction, please help!!)

I don't pirate games anymore; or better said, I rarely pirate games, and when I do they're ran in a VM with VFIO because I really don't like the idea of running arbitrary code on my system; even though we have reputable, vetted, and trustworthy groups. I buy all my games on Steam for convenience, and I opt to use Goldberg's Steam Emulator (which is open source!!) to store backups of my games, and this setup works wonderfully! I stay away from games with invasive DRM like Denuvo (I play these in a VM), and I've long stopped buying EA and Ubisoft games. The only forms of media I pirate nowadays are movies, and music (and the occasional game).

What I think the 'make it or break it' will be for folks is if we see NVENC, DLSS, CUDA support for NVK. The only way I see people who need Nvidia specific features ditching the proprietary drivers is if Nvidia releases proprietary blobs for them. But as for me, I'm ditching the proprietary drivers as soon as NVK performs within 80% of the proprietary drivers.

NVK FTW!!