Quoting: PikoloWhy wouldn't they? Ubuntu Kylin is sponsored by the Chinese academy of sciences and Windows 10's snooping is a competitor to the great firewall.

except that:
1)microsoft already helps the chinese government to spy on their people, so they dont need an custom linux for that

2)they would have an bad time convincing developers to support linux and as an result, many consumers will use windows (even if they had to pirate it) to have acess to more games/softwares.

Quoting: PikoloI fully expect more states to start their national distro's as a cost saving measure, with business licenses for Windows increasing as a proportion of software licensing cost. This won't happen in the USA, but it might happen in Europe(France already provides Linux as one of the two OS's on parliamentary laptops) or in China/Saudi Arabia/Brazil. It's an interesting tactic to keep homegrown IT talent in the country.

i have no hope for my country (Brasil), we spent tons of $$ to migrate the data from an proprietary format to a free one, then we saved millions by adopting linux and free software, then the goverment change and guess what? it goes back to MS hands.
at least in a few states, its a shame.

it take some time to recoup the investiment of an migration, and before that happens microsoft is able to lobby the government in going back to lock then selves.

also, the government tried to push the people to use linux, but what happened?
some shit companies made crap distros that made an bad reputation for linux, combine that with the fact that it lacked games/softwares, and we have an recipe for disaster, people now know linux and hate it, wich is worse than not knowing it at all, the distro was so bad that NO ONE who used it would like linux and migrate for it (or keep in on their computer)
to this day people have an bad impression of linux.
looks like the national crap distros had priority over international good ones.
the government even went so far as giving an tax discount for computers sold with linux, but it was useless, people just dumped it and instaled pirated versions of windows on it.

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Quoting: callcifer

Quoting: elmapulits not Thelio, its Thel.io , like in itch.io

That's simply not true, which you could have discovered yourself if you've visited the link you are talking about.

ok, there is an issue here...
in the URL and in the end of the video, it says thel.io
but on the page and in many parts of the subtitles of the video it says thelio.

looks like an confusion in branding...

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: elmapulits not Thelio, its Thel.io , like in itch.io

"animation"
not really an animation, more like animatics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxk8GsR4So [External Link]

We literally quote them saying it in the article.

yes, but they are wrong in their definition.

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its not Thelio, its Thel.io , like in itch.io

"animation"
not really an animation, more like animatics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxk8GsR4So [External Link]

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" Their contributions to MESA mean that we get better compatibility and performance out of Intel and AMD GPUs on Linux. "
he mean AMD GPU, APU or both?

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looks like competition is paying off...

"includes a completely redesigned user interface, along with moving their scripting system from bash to JavaScript"
how the hell this suppose to work?

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Quoting: Guest. If the support isn't all there, then it should not be getting that icon.

those games are supported by VALVE, that was their solution for those developers who wont gona bother porting.
they white listed Nier Automata then selves, at least this title (and the other ones white listed by then) should have an icon.

otherwise this effort is pointless, what is the point of being able to run an game if you dont know that you can run it?
how this will bring more users to linux?

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they should add an icon to compatible games...
but i'm not sure if the steamOS icon is the right icon to use.

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Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: Purple Library GuyProbably not in that particular way. I mean, they want to so bad they can taste it, they'd love to make themselves believe they could get away with it, but basically they know the reason they get to keep selling licenses is that for the end-user Windows seems to be "free" (as in no $$$). They know people wouldn't sit still for subscription-only.
In general, Microsoft have shot themselves in the foot repeatedly; their fundamental preinstall advantage is so great that their mistakes have so far cost them little.

I don't know, Adobe seem to be doing pretty well with their subscription service, they prove there are plenty of people out there dumb enough to pay & pay & pay & keep paying forever for something that used to be free.

adobe products were never free.
and they have features that the free alternatives lack, pay something may be bad but not having an job or taking hours to do some works is worse.

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Quoting: garpuSo, granted, there is support with DXVK coming from Valve. But if we regular users want to show the devs some appreciation, what's the best way to do it? Do they have a patreon? FOSS projects can flounder and die, when there isn't enough support (financial that is...computers and electricity cost, not to mention programmers need to eat and pay rent.)

I know WINE can be a touchy subject, but if Windows 10 does go subscription only, having an alternative for gaming that's easy, works, and runs with people's favorite games will attract a lot of people to Linux.

i guess what we can do is, keep buying games and playing then on linux.

as for MS shooting then selves in the foot, not gona happen.

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