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| 'Valve: Linux more viable than Windows 8 for gaming' |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-29 23:34:02 |
| I'm not 100% sure this is actually word-for-word, but alas. "In a presentation at Ubuntu Developer Summit currently going on in Denmark, Drew Bliss from Valve said that Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming. Windows 8 ships with its own app store and it is moving away from an open platform model." I feel like a broken record by now but here we go again: keep an eye on Valve, even if you're not into games. This is the company pushing NVIDIA and AMD to improve their Linux support, with enough clout and name to actually get stuff done. Valve doesn't mess around. |
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| RE[7]: It's a Valve's game |
| By tomcat on 2012-10-30 19:53:39 |
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> Why so hostile? Did I insult you? If you find my comment that you don't know what you're talking about to be hostile, perhaps you should redefine your notion of the term hostility to be less egocentric. > In any case, let's see how many serious games will be available through Metro one year from now. Hint: it'll be very little. Only developers who hate money will stay away from Windows 8. If Steam isn't on board, it's going to get steamrolled, and Newell knows it. Which is why he's whining. He doesn't want to share any cash with the ecosystem. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! Edited 2012-10-30 19:54 UTC |
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| RE[7]: It's a Valve's game |
| By WereCatf on 2012-10-30 20:15:01 |
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> In any case, let's see how many serious games will be available through Metro one year from now. Hint: it'll be very little. Well, why would games need to be Metro? It doesn't provide anything useful to the developers, plus going Metro would mean the game wouldn't work on earlier Windows versions. |
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| RE[5]: It's a Valve's game |
| By WereCatf on 2012-10-30 20:23:56 |
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> It isn't when you take long-term into account, something many people refuse to do here. Long-term, Windows is going Metro-only. Thom, people aren't refusing to see the long-term plan, we are simply arguing the fact that no matter what Microsoft's plan for the future is doesn't make Windows 8 itself any more or less viable, it only makes the future versions less viable. What happens in the future happens in the future, and what we have right now is Windows 8 -- something that works just as well and peachy as its predecessor. You're confusing long-term plans with the present. > Which is exactly why Valve is working with AMD, NVIDIA, and others. The breakage is not something that's unstoppable or insurmountable - just look at Android. That comparison is dysfunctional. Android comes as a whole OS and you don't arbitrarily update parts of it, whereas under GNU/Linux the OS consists of thousands of individual packages, each of which can be updated separately. It's a whole lot easier to keep the one, large bundle functional without breakages than one that consists of so many small things and that keeps changing on a daily basis. |
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| RE: Games on linux, more fun, yeah. |
| By WereCatf on 2012-10-30 20:26:44 |
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> Games on linux are more fun yeah. False assertion. The content is the same regardless of the OS. > If you had a television set, and the pictures would stop at times, and sound skip, you`d think it is broken. Yet on a PC this is ok? I've never heard of anyone saying that such is ok on a PC. |
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| RE[9]: It's a Valve's game |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-30 20:54:40 |
| It standard fair when talking about Microsoft. |
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| RE[7]: It's a Valve's game |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-30 21:36:00 |
| The family friendly policy has been scrapped. |
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| RE[3]: Depends on your definition of "viable" |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-30 21:41:00 |
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.NET is part of Windows 8. Silverlight technologies basically are XAML, which is used for Metro Apps. These technologies have evolved for the new Modern UI interface. |
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| RE: Games on linux, more fun, yeah. |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-10-30 21:43:00 |
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> If you remove more than 200 components on a windows XP install, you will get quite nice performance in most games. WAT? |
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| wine/crossover |
| By Bounty on 2012-10-30 23:08:14 |
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While I'm at posting links related to linux gamming... "CodeWeavers will be giving away their Wine-Based CrossOver software tomorrow for free." http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php... |
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| What? |
| By yester64 on 2012-10-31 02:04:19 |
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I am not sure if users will make the shift to Linux at all. People that play on Steam have Windows running and most of the times also other games that are non steam. Even if i applaud the attempt to open the gate for Linux, i am not convinced that Linux will the new gaming platform in the future. Of course it can be, but i just can't imagine it. Unless of course MS goes out of business. It seems more like an option and testing what they can do with Linux and building demand on Linux. If its running i will try it out but Linux has still some obstacles. With my 7 year old motherboard i always have problem even to get my Logitech webcam to be recognized. If we would get Android for desktop maybe all that would change. How knows. |
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