It's strange to me to think I've seen more than one game which frankly offer a better basis for a religion than half the ones people actually worship.

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Couldn't you just, I dunno, ask people what their favourite food is? :tongue:

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Warg Love? I dunno about this furry stuff.
(bzz bzz bzz)
Oh, War Glove! I guess that's OK then.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: BeamboomOh ffs. Do even windows users use that one? What does the browser stats say?

It's actually more popular than Firefox overall, going by multiple stats websites.

Sure, since MS has all but crammed it down the throats of it's users. With literal ads sprinkled into Windows to use it instead of whatever else you're using.

Oh God yes. A while ago I got a cheap little box to attach to our TV so my wife can watch the internet instead of watching TV, so we could ditch cable. It came with Windows installed, and so I thought hey, I'll just do proof of concept on Windows before taking the time to do the Linux install. Downloaded Firefox and Chrome, and off to the races, right? I'm a lazy guy in many ways, I might have just left it at "I'll switch the box to Linux when I get around to it"--except for all the annoying crap on Windows, which absolutely refused to just shut up and let my wife watch stuff. Constantly bugging us to use Edge instead was definitely one of the things that motivated me to quickly rip Windows out and put Linux in. The experience since has been much more relaxing.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIncidentally in theory, if we continued that rate of % increase, like a 37% increase every 8 months, we'd reach 90% in 9 years and 4 months! :woot::wink:

And here's me, who would be over the moon happy with reaching 5%. Because 5% would mean there are about 6m Linux gamers out there. Which would be more than sufficient marketshare to ensure the PC gaming industry (hardware makers, game developers, middleware developers, etc) give us at least some degree of meaningful support.

It's true. But in a sense the first few percentage points are the hard part. If we get to that level where vendors, hardware and software, give Linux support . . . then the big chicken/egg problems blocking growth are gone. That doesn't mean automatic further growth, but certainly some doors we've been experiencing as wedged shut would suddenly be ajar.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GuestAnd Valve have directly discouraged native title development. How can that be a good thing?

Directly? I think promoting Proton can only really count as indirectly discouraging other things. Have they come out and directly said people shouldn't do native title development? I suppose at some point they've said you don't have to because there's Proton, but I don't see how they can promote Proton without somehow saying that.

Actually yes they said that. I'm sure for them they're thinking running through "Proton" gives them more quality control (and in some cases...fair enough!) but I'm certainly no fan of anyone saying not to develop natively for any platform.

When? I thought I'd been following all this fairly closely and I don't recall that.

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Incidentally in theory, if we continued that rate of % increase, like a 37% increase every 8 months, we'd reach 90% in 9 years and 4 months! :woot::wink:

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I find the comments interesting in that there were a few years when bashing Microsoft had gone out of style, and if anyone started talking smack about M$ other people would immediately come along and say they're not so bad, they've changed, they like Linux now, they're not so dangerous now because they only dominate the desktop and it's on its way out anyway, etc etc. There was a feeling among many that being down on Microsoft was old fashioned political, GPL zealot thinking that was no longer relevant.

Lately I'm seeing a marked return to the old days of seeing Microsoft as the dangerous enemy and nasty monopolist that I personally have considered it all along. I wonder why?

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Edgy.

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Quoting: The_AquabatI will check Hitman Absolution , but Just Cause 2 is not working for me.

Why not?
Apparently just 'cause.

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