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Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
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I do continually find it baffling that companies repeatedly replace existing products with something worse
I literally can't think of one time some service or software was retired in lieu of a like for like* replacement and it wasn't actually worse for a very long time.
I'm actually struggling to think of any example actually
It's worse for the end user, but better for shareholders.
The best software in many categories is open source and it's astonishing how few people use it. I mainly blame governments in the 1990s and early 00s for embedding Microsoft into their own systems, administrations and most of all: schools. We could be living in a much nicer world right now.
You could maybe make an argument for Counter Strike or Team Fortress or something like that… maybe.
aren't current iterations of both basically 'live service games' now, with microtransactions driving their continued existence?
they are not the same games as the hl mods i started playing way before steam came along.
You're describing a fork