Quoting: razing32

Quoting: GuestThe future is made for the linux machines. I know it because terminator t-101 model works on linux kernel 4.5 ^_^ It will be a doom for windows 10 based robots because they need to boot themselves every time they need an update! And imagine that happens in the middle of the battle. Not a good vision for windows 10!^_^ Mankind will game on linux....hopefully. Anyway back to earth. It's a long way to linux get even 10% marketshare of operating systems when it comes to playing. One can hope it will happen in a couple of years when win7 support ends.Hopefully:)

Wouldn't be too hopeful.
I was visiting an ophthalmologist last year and I noticed out of the corner of my eye he was still using XP.

There's a lot of little specialty bits of software that people got used to using, that may have no real modern equivalent, and which only run on old Windows (or, ahem, maybe Wine). Understandably increases resistance to change.

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Still don't put much faith in the survey. Valve may think it's fit for purpose, but I have no way of knowing why, and it tends to be out of step with most other data I see about Linux usage.
The one major thing I take from the data lately is simple: Chinese people don't use Linux. It would be good if something were done about that.

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Quoting: razing32Is it just me , or are we milking Lovecraft and Tesla a tad too much lately ?

Stop milking dead men, people.

Eeewwww!

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Why do we care how Huns spell things, anyway?

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Quoting: STiATValve is a corporation

I'm not sure it actually is. At any rate not in the typical sense of a thing owned by shareholders, where the shares are sold on the open market. My understanding is that Valve is owned by Gabe and a few other Valve employees, with Gabe holding the biggest single chunk and maybe a majority. Something like that. This means that the management and ownership are basically the same, and therefore that the management does not in effect have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders to maximize profits, unless we're expecting Gabe to sue himself.
This doesn't mean Mr. Newell isn't motivated by money. But it does mean that Valve is run by personal motivations, not by the structural imperatives of the corporate form. It probably wouldn't be wise to trust Valve, in the same sense that it's not wise to trust an individual you don't know personally, and especially a rich one. But it's different from a corporation, where you shouldn't trust it in the sense that you know for certain it would betray you to make 2% interest on a penny.

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Quoting: WJMazepasGuys, it is normal to graphics on wine look different than on Windows? I tried GTA SA and it looked different

Define "normal". If you mean, "Common and not unexpected" then yeah, it's normal. If you mean "That's how it's supposed to be", then no, probably it's not normal.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI still don't see how those wind thingies on Mars are going to generate noticeable power.

Mars is very windy, it just take a lot of wind (like 70km/h) for the dust to raise from the ground due to low atmospheric density, but once it's off said ground, it stay in the air longer due to the lack of precipitation.

The dust isn't the issue. Low atmospheric density, as you said. Apparently about 1% of ours. Kinetic energy is like mass times velocity squared, so a Martian wind has the energy of an Earth wind one tenth as fast. A 70 km/h Martian wind isn't going to generate any more force than a 7 km/h wind on Earth. And when there isn't actually a sandstorm on--forget it! The wind pressure will be negligible.

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I still don't see how those wind thingies on Mars are going to generate noticeable power.

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I know nothing about r/linux_gaming or whatever jaycee's got a bug in their ear about, but I do agree with the basic point that a SteamOS icon and SteamOS requirements do not just magically appear on a page, they get put there by the game developers who should therefore bear some responsibility for doing it.

It's like, if I'm renting a house and someone vandalizes it and then the landlord never bothers to fix the damage. OK, the landlord (Valve) should be doing something. Nonetheless, the vandal (game developer) is not somehow blameless because of that. So I don't actually see why we should not be giving the BATTALION developers a hard time. Especially when you add in their totally crap communication. Maybe not an "OMG these people are evil" hard time, but certainly a "Get your bloody act together" hard time.

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Well, you know what they say: No Gods, no Glory!

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