Quoting: jensPlease speak for yourself and use I instead of we. I'm pretty certain that my reasons for using Linux and the way how I'm using it are not the same as yours.

Usage of we is fine here, that's the majority of Linux users, so for sure more than one. And I don't agree that Linux community has to downplay open source values, just because some don't share them. Quite on the contrary actually.

Regarding Steam cloud itself - I see no negative effect from them making it, as long as they won't push anything to it exclusively preventing releases in other stores for regular desktop Linux.

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Quoting: Shmerla strong incentive to make a proper Linux port like in case of Stadia which requires Linux strictly.

Are we sure about this?

About what exactly, that Stadia requires Linux? Yes, that's a fact.

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Interesting. So it can be another incentive (in addition to Stadia) to make Linux releases for developers. The major difference from Stadia is, that if they make it for Steam cloud, it likely will be a normal Linux version that Steam can release for everyone in the store as well.

The only concern could be the fact that if Steam Cloud will rely on Proton as a fallback, legacy publishers won't have a strong incentive to make a proper Linux port like in case of Stadia which requires Linux strictly.

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Quoting: 14MS incentive here is to get more web developers using their stuff, thus they won't bring DirectX (or something like it) to Linux.

That's a good thing. No point to start bringing that stuff anywhere, when Vulkan already exists.

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Quoting: F.UltraThe OS market have never been "lucrative" for Microsoft (except maybe in the old MS-DOS days when they had a monopoly), their big income has always been the Office suite so the OS have just been a way to maintain the de-factor monopoly so that people would continue to purchase Microsoft Office.

OS market alone no, but stranglehold and near monopoly of pre-installation of Windows is totally something they parasitically benefit from until this day due to network effects.

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Despite all this "MS changed for the better", they only switch to open standards once they lose market power in that field. They utterly lost browser wars, that's why they are so nice with Edge and etc.

In order for them to back down from DX lock-in and to support Vulkan, they need to lose gaming market wars. One thing that could be a heavy blow for them are streaming services. I.e. imagine Xbox market share dropping, due to console users using Stadia and etc. Consequently, it would be a very heavy blow for DX, since Xbox is the only enforced lock-in where DX is required (on Windows you can avoid it).

So, I wish luck to Stadia weakening the major holdout of MS nastiness. It might eventually force MS to start supporting open standards for gaming indeed.

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OST is very good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtKSX3V_CoU [External Link]

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The game is pretty good. It indeed feels inspired by Arx Fatalis in some ways.

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And it's funded :)

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November data also showed up in GOL stats. AMD GPUs finally almost reached 1/3:

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