Doom, of course!

Also, OpenRCT2, and Unreal Tournament.

It depends on a lot of factors. Minecraft, despite its signature simplistic artstyle, takes a surprising amount of CPU power to run - a lot more so if you run mods. Even a Minecraft server, which doesn’t render graphics at all, takes a beefy machine and a lot of RAM.

It’s as much about graphical fidelity as it is quality of code, and unfortunately, there are a lot of game studios that don’t seem especially bothered about optimising their games. To the extent that you can fill, say, an Xbox’s hard drive with only two or three AAA games.

All that said, you’re right in that simpler graphics in general mean less work for the graphics card to do. Just that it’s not the only factor.

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I’d like to add to this by saying that on my Windows 11 work laptop, I have Firefox set as the default. If I open a link from Outlook or Teams, it will open in Edge. So you’re not wrong, and it’s quite infuriating

…It’s not really an opinion, but okay

They’re not, but your example is a game with detailed graphics…

Stardew looks fantastic, what are you saying?

Some fun games I’ve played use intentionally shitty graphics to add to it

If it adds to the experience, wouldn’t the graphics then be good?

Graphics are important. Polygon count is not. There is no real value in being able to see each individual eyelash, but I also don’t think there’s much benefit to making every game look like the original Lode Runner.

Possibly because one was on a console that sold “okay”, and the other was on one of the biggest-selling systems of all time

MicroOS is designed as a server OS first and foremost, but I have read some anecdotes of people using it just fine on the desktop.

You might want to look into OpenSUSE Aeon or Kalpa instead, which are immutable editions designed for the desktop, running GNOME and KDE respectively. Kalpa is in alpha (almost rhymed) but Aeon is in a more mature state.

I would start drinking coffee a lot sooner. I’ve found that it has a remarkable effect on my cognitive ability (supposedly a common thing amongst ADHDers), and in 2014, I’d have benefitted massively from that.

How so?

If you’re getting a big heap of money from Microsoft, who cares what decisions you make? (Playing devil’s advocate)

This is what happens everywhere: they’ll just keep chancing it until such a time as it’s acceptable.

But isn’t one of the running jokes that Heathcliff loves garbage…?

Why did you give up on everything else?

BIOS are usually set up with PXE in the boot sequence. If it fails to boot from the hard drive, it’ll attempt PXE.

Darn Noone, I wish they’d just mind their own business

So when we actually do have AI, what are we supposed to call it? The current use of the term “AI” is too ambiguous to be of any use.