i played a relaxed 15 minutes of mario odyssey yesterday and it seemed like a pleasant time, even through my games-related jadedness. $50-60 pleasant? probably not, i'm too frugal. but i'd borrow it!
appreciated how light and reasonably fast the switch OS seemed too.
@colon_three was Wii / Wii U OS all proprietary?
@alyx as far as i know the wii was closed/proprietary
@colon_three me too. so the BSD thing is interesting if true!
(ugh Wii U OS lag flashbacks)
@colon_three @alyx yeah, the Wii/WiiU is proprietary (and absurd in all kinds of fun ways)
Wikipedia seems to suggest that the Switch's is also prop but includes BSD components, which wouldn't be unreasonable given that even Windows has been shipping with some BSD code included for decades
@theoutrider @alyx that and the PS4, and uh, OSX/iOS being based on Darwin
it's everywhere
@alyx afaik the switch runs some flavour of BSD which explains a lot