SloanTheServal

Again, you're missing the point. Yes, they are PC games. No, not all PC games work on the Steam Deck.

The point was that not every game was confirmed to work. For a PC game to work on the Steamdeck, it needs to meet two criteria:

1. Work on Linux, either natively or through Proton.

2. Have controller support and/or be playable with a touchscreen.

Not every PC game meets this criteria. Some games still don't play well in a cross-OS runtime environment like Proton or WINE. Others are designed specifically for mouse and keyboard, or keyboard alone.

One game I can definitely say is not Steamdeck compatible is SimCity 4. The UI doesn't really work with touch screens well, the game has no native controller support, and it originally released with SecuROM so a physical copy won't even work on modern Windows, let alone Linux.

I mean, Google Search has had issues with reinterpreting, ignoring and even outright replacing search terms with "synonyms" that are only tangentially relevant for a few years now. I'm not surprised their AI is doing the same thing, and I guarantee it's "working as intended" and that Google won't do anything to fix it.

Maybe for some very stylistic installations that are more for looks than practicality?

This comes off as one of those "we asked if we could, but never asked if we should" kinds of things...

Pretty sure if they're a wolf that sometimes turns into a man, they'd be a wolfwere.

He who keeps the old akindle, and adds new knowledge, is fit to be ~~a teacher~~ an inventor.

The fact that you can fork the code and make your own clean version, either for personal use or for distribution, is part of why most companies don't usually bother with open source licenses to begin with - it's just too hard to make the kind of monster-profits corporations and shareholders alike expect without inevitably provoking someone into forking their code and distributing a free, unmonetized version of the product. I'd be surprised if ZipoApps goes full-on monetization if they want people to keep using their versions of the apps, but if they do, it's going to be a short-lived inconvenience until someone inevitably distributes a fork.

Yeah, it has to stay GPL. So Simple Mobile Tools selling to a for-profit company doesn't really change all that much. Worst case scenario, the original apps get screwed over but someone releases forks of them. Best case scenario, ZipoApps doesn't actually change anything and just acts as a host for the projects.

They hacked a nuclear lab to ask for what would be genetics research... facepalm

Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.

More like "people should get off of X platform but don't because people they regularly interact with don't want to move, and because herd mentality"

It's the same reason why people tolerate YouTube's bullshit. The audience won't switch to a platform without content, and the content creators won't switch to a platform without an audience.

The day the Penguin goes mainstream is the day they decide to finally bite the bullet and start making distros with WINE preinstalled. Same goes for the other UNIX-derived FOSS OSs, like FreeBSD.