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Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming
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."
Steam does not make games "run in Linux". Steam does not offer an API to construct games upon. Steam is just front end DRM for launching games that can be easily installed without steam. There's nothing magical about Steam that's going to make major publishers all of a sudden start supporting Linux. If dozens of actual game creators started supporting Linux, that might be a story. It seems to me that all Valve has is their tired "source" engine games, and source is nothing but a modified Quake 2 engine. Quake 2! Seriously? So I guess we can all play L4D7, TF Comicon edition and Half Life 2 on Linux, great. But if you want to play the latest ID engine, you had better ask ID what platform they're going to support, because Steam has nothing to do with it.
Nope. But if Microsoft continues this nonsense and major game developers switch to Linux, 2014 will be.
Versus Apple or Sony or Linux? HAAHHAHAAHAH. I'll stick with Microsoft.
While I'm sure he's not happy about Ballmer trying to turn Windows into an ersatz Apple, I mean who DIDN'T know that Windows 8 would suck big hairy balls for gaming? Its a tweeting, twitting, FB shitting "social media hub" that has a billion damned things constantly running in the background popping "information" aka bullshit in the background sucking CPU cycles and GPU resources...and you say it ain't good for gaming? Really? Well no shit, you took Win 7 and tied a fucking boat anchor to it trying to make it into a damned smartphone, what the fuck did you expect?
Hopefully Ballmer's fat ass won't be in the big chair for Win 9, his ass is getting old and its obvious to everyone, including the financial district, that he just ain't got what it takes...fuck make ME the head of MSFT, I'd turn that company around in 3 years, maybe less! The problem is they have become too far removed from their customers, they are looking at what the other guy does and just aping instead of saying "Will that WORK for our customers? Well what do they want instead?" and giving them that.
Windows could be the juggernaut it was in the 90s if it wasn't so damned full of PHBs and layers between them and the customers...News Flash MSFT...ASK US WHAT WE WANT and we'll be more than happy to tell you it AIN'T APPLE because if we want Apple we wouldn't be buying from you!...Morons, total fucking morons running that company.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Riddle me this....How can you have Open Source DRM? Answer? You can't, which is why this won't work. And since when is Linux mainstream? /Looks around Walmart/...nope no Linux desktops. if you mean Android that is GOOGLE not Linux, do you see a CLI? Do you see the four freedoms held inviolate on Android? hell the new Motorola Droid units (owned by Google now remember?) are LOCKED DOWN, no different than Apple and MSFT!
If people WANT Dirt 2, they will NOT settle for Tux Racer. Linux has gotten as far as it has on ersatz, Firefox for IE, LO for MS Office, etc, but what we are talking about is A DRM PLATFORM and YOU know and I know and soon Valve will know that they will NOT allow a DRM platform to thrive on linux, the low level devs would burn the fucking place to the ground before giving up the GPL, as your post demonstrates, thanks.
if you want the AAA titles you gotta play by the rules and they means DRM, no DRM no AAA titles. Hold onto your delusion that the world is gonna embrace the GPL, but you are more likely to get Ron Paul in the White House than you are to have the entire gaming industry open their code and go to a tin cup or services model, the only two models that have made ANY money with FOSS.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.