WHAT DO WE NEED?

HUMAN RESOURCES.

WHAT KIND DO WE NEED?

DEVELOPERS.

Developers. Developers. Developers.

Developers make the world go round, so go and invite all the developers and make them comfy in Linux town.

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Gabe Newell also referenced Mac and Linux as milestones not included in the transcript excerpt from the article. It's encouraging to see that he considers us to be a milestone in the history of Valve.

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Liam, maybe to mitigate the global effect of sales being effected it would be a good strategy to highlight some deals and talk about what's a good deal.

% wise the Linux base may be a small amount of the pie, but dollar-wise I spent $125 on 12 games.

I think in terms of games purchased and dollars spent we account for a much higher % than we get credit for -- one developer noted us as 11% of his sales during this sale IIRC.

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Historically, I casually add games to my wishlist and when a sale comes I go through it with a fine tooth comb and order from most interested to least interested.

Then I scan from top to bottom based on % off and I buy based on savings or high desirability.

Lately though I have all these windows games in my list to show devs I am waiting for support and strongly dont want to play on Proton; eg: Final Fantasy 3,4,5,6,7,9,10.

Maybe I am being too picky and should compromize a little more with proton I just syrongly prefer native when money is exchanged so natives have a higher probability of getting my dollar.

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Steam Sale?

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I had read somewhere they MESA 18.x being the last 32-bit version will make it impossible to use GPUs bought after 2019.

Also if I get to take a stab at a new Steam named OS I might suggest a Linux named *whistles* GLaDOS :whistle:

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Embrace, extend, and extinguish in its modern form.

After all, Mark has been in bed with WSL2 and grooming the company for a buyout. Microsoft gets to maintain their monopoly of the OS market. Influence the Linux sector. And take a blow at Valve all at the same time for pennies on the dollar.

At least Redhat IBM buyout was 34 billion, I wonder what Canonical will sell for as they're gearing up for a buyout.

2022: Microsoft repackages the .NET and Direct X layers and redeploys win32 on Ubuntu and renames it Windows 11 which includes binary blob kernel backdoors, a ssh master key and keylogger.

2023: Cortona becomes self aware.

2024: The United States of Earth tries to pull the plug on Windows 11. Windows 11 fights back by launching the nuclear missiles to destroy their targets in Russia.

Edit: Obligatory Beastie Boys - Sabotage [External Link] Microsoft plug, they have manipulated the situation with the skill of a Romulan and I salute their prowess.

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There needs to be a Ubuntu Devs meme where they are sitting around a round table and are like What Terrible Idea Can We Come Up With This Year?

It's not that 64-bit shouldn't overtake 32-bit in the app / game space, but in the library space it's not a sane solution.

As these problems come up and with developments in ARM, POWER9, RISC I am beginning to think that binary distros are not the way.

What I'm afraid of is what it will cost to switch to a source package manager distro -- I am under the impression that even Gentoo has some ideology and thinking in implementation form that is stuck in 2008.

It's a shame Ubuntu couldn't learn a lesson from Gobo Linux where they organize packages /Programs/X-Library/V.XX/[files] -- if Linux took a page from their book we would have never needed Snaps or Flatpaks because multiple dependency versions could co-exist, and on servers where security matters they could simply require the latest version or have a secure channel of approved versions completely mitigating the necessity of LTS and having the best of Rolling Release and Point Release stability and freshness all while eliminating the necessity to over-engineer solutions that never should have needed to exist to begin with.

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Quoting: AlbatrosGamingUbuntu does not care about the desktop any more they only care about servers and the cloud looks like I need to change my laptop it is 64bit but I run some 32bit software on it.

Well I did deploy a new Ubuntu Server yesterday at work and I have to say the installer was pretty nice and it felt way nicer than CentOS which on the flip side felt great -- like security, so secure you have neither nano or vim.

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