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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. no more donuts for Gabe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's just angry that Windows Marketplace is going to cut into his donut funds.

    1. Re:no more donuts for Gabe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      yea right & lemme guess, 2012 is the year of the linux "desktop"?

    2. Re:no more donuts for Gabe... by Vanderhoth · · Score: 4, Funny

      "unheard of" or "impossible" comes to mind

  2. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have always thought MS had at least a metro streak, if not homosexual in naming. "File manager" became "explorer", the "Net" became "network neighborhood", "Box" became "my computer", "config" became "innie file", etc.. It's subtle in places, but feminine names and "soft" tones everywhere.

  3. Re:Fear... by Tom · · Score: 2, Funny

    The myriad hardware types out there with myriad sets of less-than-optimal drivers might present myriad problems

    So you're saying the PC/Windows platform is a bitch. But what do you think about Linux?

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  4. Re:If only more companies acted on their thoughts by pipatron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your rants are a bit... dated. Come back when you've found your time machine.

    Setting up a dual boot environment has, for the last 5 years at least, just been to tick the box in the installer. Sound just works since years back. The most popular Linux distribution has removed pretty much all options with regards to "tweaking". In fact, that's their whole point, and why they are the most popular.

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  5. Re:Due to the huge Linux market share? by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I want to shoot zombies I don't want to have to restart my sound system or HID system and re-enter pin codes and set defaults again, nor do I want to spend weeks configuring and scripting auto-configuration setup for such a thing.

    Come on, don't you miss the good ol' days of DOS gaming?

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