Quoting: ArdjeThese days any windows server release still can not do network wise what any linux system could already do 25 years ago.

can you be more specific?
it lack support for some api/protocol?

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Quoting: elmapulgta6 ?

-- entirely off-topic, but given the current state of Take Two, I have absolutely no expectations for GTA 6.

me neither, i mean, i dont think it will be a great game (if it ever relase) it will be full of mtx.
but anyway, it will be a huge relase despite that, will make tons of money for valve so it make sense the secrecy

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if they are making so much mystery for an game its either an new ip, or Half Life 3.
sure it could be CS2 port for linux, but they already made the CS2 announcement, so i dont think they would keep it a secret, maybe an strong IP from a thirdy party, but what could be that would be so huge they wont want to leak? gta6 ?

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Quoting: crseNice!
I hope this will lead to many doujinsoft developer have Linux release in the future! Not to forget their own local game store as well.

For context, doujinsoft (≈indie games) in Japan are like their own world. They have their own distribution platoform with more experimental game scene that you will never see on international platform like itch.io or GameJolt. Yet, only less than 10% actually released globally, especially the one catering to Akiba-kei otaku --"

Most of those doujinsoft are only released to platform like DLsite (Windows-only DRM site 👎), booth.pm, Freem, or Tyrano's Novel Game Collection.

I heard Chinese, Taiwan, and South Korean also have their own unique platform with their own interpretation of gaming culture :)

i really hope that happens.
linux is already niche, japanese indie (doujin) games are niche, making japanese doujin games work on linux is a niche of a niche, a hell to find tutorials to setup then.
its like:
i cant wait to play this "kids anime game on my computer" years later, ok i can play it now, but im an adult i dont care about this anime anymore!

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its funny that they assume you customized the colors of your steam deck

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Quoting: InstallIs open gl still big an important? im new to linux.

a lot of devices (eg: old phones) dont support vulkan, so openGL will still important for a while if you want to target the largest possible audience.

newer video cards or drivers might use something like glove to translate openGL calls to vulkan, so they only have to care about supporting one api, and get support for both, with an better performance than if they tried to implement support for both.

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Quoting: CatKillerUntil Valve.

exactly what i said, but you might be right about mantle.

Quoting: CatKillerMicrosoft can't kill it, although they gave serious thought to how they might try (see, for example, the Halloween Documents). All they can do is try to marginalise its use and support, and keep developers dependent on Windows-only technology.

yeah and now they are trying with WSL.

i think that if microsoft had any chance to kill linux, it was when it was small.
as for they dominating game? well, if they try to eat too much, all other companies might try to form an alliance to fight against it.
the fact that even sony is porting their games to windows is scary, and the fact that companies couldnt resist puting their games on steam dont help either, if they cant find valve they have no chance against microsoft.

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Quoting: CatKillerthat consumers might do all their gaming and computing on something that doesn't come from Microsoft.

yeah, sony tried to turn playstation in an pc (remember Ps2 linux or the otherOS option on ps3?)
they failed at it and gave up, there werent any pressure to improve windows for gaming since then.

im not saying microsoft didnt had any incentive to improve directX, but to improve the windows version of it, they fought playstation with xbox instead of with windows, until valve came with steamOS, sundelly microsoft started to talk about dx12 in public, ported their xbox exclusives to windows pc and did many other moves like that.

Quoting: ElectricPrismMy popcorn and chips are ready to see how they "Solve" their little "Windows 11 devices MUST HAVE A WEBCAM AND TDP 2 or whatever the fuck it's called".

omg, you remembered something good, lol that is hilarious, sundelly microsoft will be forced to stop pretending that those requirements were really nescessary.

anyway, talking about microsoft with people feels like being the apocaliptic profet.
if linux died, then things could go really bad with computing, microsoft would no longer have an big incentive to maintain windows backward compatibility , they would start building an walled garden more and more, faster than they are trying to do that, they would have less pressure to improve windows security etc.

but linux will never die, so people will keep acting like they do, thinking that "linux is useless", that "windows is the only system that should exist" , stupid things like that.

we will never see the post apocaliptic scenario that an total windows domination would create to show to people how bad it is, but might never be able to show to people how much things could be better too.

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Quoting: CatKillerMicrosoft releasing their own (Xbox-branded) handheld hardware would be the threat; they've got stacks of spare money, a whole bunch of games studios, and an established store that they're trying to juice. That's the way that a competitor could make the same pricing and platform play as Valve have done, and Microsoft doing it would be to try to sink Valve's lifeboat.

the question is:
it will run xbox and it subset of games? or it will run windows and all it games?
if it runs windows, valve still would make money since steam is king there, not to mention they would incentive their own audience to use other stores by doing that.

on the other hand if they try to lock it to xbox games, then steamOS will still have more games (not that the ammount is more important than the names involved)

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Quoting: CatKillerIt's not the first time. As alluded to in the article, Microsoft had allowed DirectX to languish until Valve plugged their own game through their own DirectX to OpenGL wrapper on Linux and had it run faster than DirectX on Windows. Then suddenly DirectX was super important to Microsoft again.

worse than that.
consoles are an platform with tons of Non Disclosure Agreements, so we dont know what happens there.

now think with me:
why would microsoft improve directX for windows, if they already have an monopoly on OS for desktops, and dont make money directly from games being sold for windows?
why would microsoft improve DirectX for Xbox, when they DO make money on each game sold for it?

i think DX12 already existed in someform on xbox, we just didnt knew/heard about that, from microsoft point of view PC was an platform where they make money seling operating systems but couldnt make selling games, so if playing the latest AAA games with an decent performance on xbox was cheaper than playing then on PC, many gamers would chose an Xbox and they would make more money.
sure, maybe some people would prefer an playstation or switch, but those people wouldnt stop using windows anyway.

then, valve anounced SteamOS and sundely microsoft had an reason to care about DX for windows, and announced DX12 for it (wich might already exist but this info not being public avaliable)

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