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Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming

Posted by samzenpus on from the top-of-the-heap dept.

dartttt writes "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 not an open platform anymore and Linux has everything they need: good OpenGL, pulseaudio, OpenAL and input support."

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  1. Re:John Carmack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have John Carmack, and you have Gabe Newell. One is a software developer who actually writes code and knows more about modern rendering engines than anyone on the planet.

    The other is the fat CEO of a game company who got lucky with a hit game, which was created using a game engine the other man wrote, and then leveraged that into their own little App Store.

    One sees "viability as a game platform" in terms of potential competition. The other is judging it pragmatically based on it's technical merits. See if you can guess who's who, and how this might explain their difference of opinion.