Honestly, people wondering about GIMP v Adobe should look to Blender. 10 years ago it was a punchline to a joke, not even the whole joke. Five years ago it was amateurish, something for hobbyists. Today it's used in small studios for TV work. Where will it be in ten years?

GIMP is there now, too. You CAN make a living using GIMP, just maybe not as well as Adobe. Not yet.

This is how open source works. First they mock you. Then they dismiss you. Then they hire out small jobs to you. Then world domination.

That said, people we are .5% of Steam. Forget GOG, Steam is the big dog, the one the industry looks at. At the moment it looks REALLY stupid for Valve to have sunk any money in Linux at all. We are not holding up our end of this computing revolution. AMD has put out their ray tracing demo in Vulkan a few months back, was that a mistake? Should they be basing it in DX12 like NVIDIA?

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I'm hoping that eventually they merge Portal and Half life, preferably into Half life 3. It's been ten years, so I hope the voice actors are still alive to reprise the roles should that end up being the case.

There was five years between HL1 and HL2. Newel said that he didn't want to produce a sequel unless they could blow away people with the second game like they did with the first. Well....not sure how they would be able to do that with a third game. Sure it would look MUCH better. But how would it play? Add the portal gameplay with the gravity gun,flying vehicles, and maybe add destructible environments? What about the control scheme, should it be streamlined? Here's a question, does it even make sense to make another Source engine? The few games that licensed Source all failed, so does it pay for Valve to crank out a new engine or does it make more sense to use something like UE4?

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Hmmmm.... Gunpoint, Sanctum2, DoW2. Maybe go through The Station and/or Firewatch.

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Things I don't understand #1,850,382 : Why Square Enix published the Final Fantasy PC remasters using Direct X when they were natively coded in OpenGL. Or were they? We're talking PS2 era, so maybe not.

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