Maybe a bit optimistic, but one can dream
Maybe a bit optimistic, but one can dream
The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: "Gamers use Windows because of its' user experience not our de facto monopoly."
Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a "Out of Business" sign. Subtitle: "30 minutes after SteamOS is released"
Edit: Yo, I'm not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew's UX sucks ass.
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My problem is that being in denial about the state of gaming on Linux (better than before, still garbage) does nothing to improve the state of gaming on Linux.
Do you think that was profitable for Steam (from people voting with their wallet), or do you think Steam did it for charity out of the kindness of their hearts?
You seem to think that Valve developed Proton to capture the Linux marketshare. That's unbelievably naive.
How is gaming support on Linux "still garbage"?
90% of games work out of the box. No tweaks, just press play.
You have options for launchers, Steam, Heroic, Lutris...
I've dropped Windows about 8 years ago, and I missed on a couple of games, mostly due to the anticheat bullshit.
I even mod my games on Linux without issues.
There were more issues with gaming on Windows than issues I had on Linux.
It could be 99% of games and it wouldn't matter if the remaining 1% are what people actually wanna play. Support for games outside of Steam is beyond the capabilities of most PC users. Most people don't actually enjoy playing Troubleshooting Simulator.
I play games outside of Steam as well?
Wtf, those launchers play games without issues outside the Steam? What are you talking about?
And if that last 1% of games does crazy shit, it can stay on Windows. There is no need to fully support everything from Windows (down to exploits) on Linux.
Can I just go to gog.com, download The Witcher 3, click on the installer and have it install? Or do I have to configure some bullshit that's beyond the capabilities of the regular user before I can do that? You seem to be completely disconnected from real people. Real people also don't care about what kernel anticheat does and just want it to work.
I have played a game from GOG on Linux (Icewind Dale), it had Linux download, I opened it and the game played 100%, even multiplayer with non-Linux users.
Dunno about Witcher 3 specifically.
It doesn't. But congratulations on showing that Linux gaming outside of Steam is at exactly the same stage as it was years ago: Most titles don't work.
You are just trolling, or being in bad faith.
I don't know about Witcher 3, because I didn't buy it on GOG. I bought it on Steam, works out of the box, no issues.
So either tell me your experience, or stay on Windows.
You download it, you click it, and nothing happens because Linux doesn't run exes, like it was in the 2000s. What did you expect would happen?
"It doesn't work when I make no effort to look up the simple solution that would make it work."
Again with this. You can look up the solution, I can look up the solution. Mr. Regular Joe who just got off an 8 hour shift and just wants to play games for an hour doesn't know or care to know what Wine or Lutris are. You need to get out of your bubble.
You've never heard of AppImages on Linux, that just... open the app on doubleclick? No install or anything?
Because that's what I got when I picked 'Download for Linux' on GOG...
Get lost, you know nothing and speak nonsense.
And don't forget to mention everywhere how Linux community is hostile, and not you being a sorry excuse for a being.
That's what you got on the one game you downloaded, you muppet. It's not the case for most games. Again, get out of your bubble.
You seem to think that Valve developed Proton to capture the Linux marketshare. That's unbelievably naive.
Okay, so why did they develop it?
Because Microsoft has the power to end Steam almost overnight so Valve is desperately trying to move people away from Windows. Linux just happened to be a useful tool but Proton aims to capture the Linux userbase about as much as ChromeOS does.
Microsoft has the power to end Steam almost overnight
You want to explain that one? Yes, Steam was exclusively on Windows, but how exactly would Microsoft "end them almost overnight" without immediately being slapped with significant lawsuits? Do you honestly believe Microsoft would put something in their code that specifically excludes Steam?
You call me nieve and then claim the reason was wild conspiracy theories...
Lawsuits won't do anything to stop Microsoft in the short term, look at what happened to Netscape. Valve understands that "voting with your wallet" doesn't work because the majority of people will buy whatever the current monopoly holder tells them to buy.
wild conspiracy theories...
Do you live under a rock? Valve has been very clear about their intentions since the days of the Steam machines.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/valve-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-for-pcs/
"I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality."
It was done for profit. The exact thing I've been saying.
That quote doesn't mean what you think it means. And you haven't been saying it was done for profit, you've been saying it was done because "people voted with their wallet".
you haven't been saying it was done for profit, you've been saying it was done because "people voted with their wallet".
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Companies will do something if they have a profit incentive to do so. They will not do things if they do not have a profit incentive to do so. People voting with their wallet creates a profit incentive.