

You’re correct. You’ll notice every president in recent history has multiple assassination attempts listed. The bulk of them don’t go very far.
If you want a preview of an uncaring and anti-consumer Valve, look no further than the company’s efforts on Mac.
Valve never updated any of its earlier games to run in 64-bit mode… Apple dropped support for 32-bit applications in 2019
Funny enough, the only platform with a 64-bit Steam client is Mac.
I don’t disagree with concerns about monopoly, but the author’s key example is Macs. And from the example, it sounds to me like Apple disregards backwards compatibility (dropping 32-bit support, moving to ARM chips) and Valve isn’t investing to keep up. Meanwhile, Windows has a heavy backwards-compatibility focus, and Linux isn’t too bad either, so no wonder they still get Valve’s attention. So who is being “anti-consumer” in this example, Valve or Apple?
Cunningham’s law. And just to buck the trend, you didn’t have to get it wrong to get the right answer ;).
I’ve run the Nextcloud snap for years and it’s been solid. If you have Ubuntu set up already (desktop or server, either work), getting started is just snap install nextcloud
. Assuming you want it exposed to the internet, you can get HTTPS just by running nextcloud.enable-https
. Once it’s running, it keeps itself updated without any manual intervention.
Of course, this pulls you into Ubuntu and its snap ecosystem, which is not without controversy, but this is the one place I’ve found where snap really shines.