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What's a big tech product that you actually find useful? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RandomVanGloboii@feddit.it to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most of us in Lemmy know the importance of privacy and owning your devices in a big tech owned world (me included) but for once I thought to make the opposite question and ask if there are products by them that you actually use and enjoy them.

Important to say, I mean products you use even though there are alternatives, not monopolies like YouTube.

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[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The thing I like most about Steam is that games under Linux just work, for the most part. I don't play AAA games online multiplayer which is, I believe, where that falls down, but other than that it really is pretty seamless

[–] Xperr7@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Even then with AAA multiplayer, it's not a guarantee it's unplayable. Every Halo game on Steam works just fine, and Apex Legends was one of the first AAA MP games to support the Deck.

[–] RubberDucky@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

This, my dad refuses to download proton or lutris and prefers to use wine baseline, and he has been waiting for months now for his game to be playable again, meanwhile I'm over here installing games right and left and just playing them, even newly released games, it just works (most of the time)