This is a clear case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Not only do you now have underperforming video hardware, you have underperforming drivers to go with it.
So why aren't they going after apple, which is far more closed and restrictive than android? With android you can just get the source and build your own ecosystem on top of it if you want. With iOS, it's their way or the highway. Apple's iphone IS a monopoly, far more than Android ever could be.
For those arguing that Android isn't open, or requires google's strict approval, please explain the hundreds of custom android builds out there - almost none of which sought permission from google.
Linux users whine that the games aren't being built for their platform, but refuse to make it a platform that the average person wants to use. You can't say "adopt Linux" while simultaneously saying "don't dumb it down, just learn to use a command line like the rest of us".
Microsoft literally laughs at the Linux desktop effort. It has so many people pulling in so many different directions that it will never get its shit together unless someone takes direct control of enough components to put it all together under a single cohesive vision. Of course, his flies in the face of what Linux users are all about. So if it ever happened they'd all complain that it wasn't open enough, or that there wasn't enough choice, or that binary drivers were polluting the FOSS ecosystem or some shit.
Big game studios are dismissive of Linux because there's no money there. It's been tried - over and over. Remember Loki games? You know why that stopped? Many Linux users pirated the software because they're used to the idea that software should be free not as in beer, but free as in cost nothing. The few that did buy the games weren't enough to support them. As a result Loki went bankrupt. These days if a game has Linux support it's a value add. It's not expected to make any real money, because there's none to be made. So if you want to point a finger at anyone for the present state of affairs, you can thank the users themselves.
AI isn't advanced enough for this to even begin to be a worry. Even after someone successfully develops the world's first viable AI it will be so astronomically expensive there'll only be one or two in the world.
Smart people are over-reacting, and the media is loving it. That's all you're seeing here.
The point you're not getting is that there is no bright side. There is no point where anyone benefits here. NK will get annihilated killing many innocents there (I mean, come on, I bet a lot of people there aren't there by choice) but not before they shell the shit out of South Korea.
I hate this argument. "I've never had problems, so nobody has problems". Every laptop I've ever tried to put linux on has had some part of it just flat out not work, or work poorly.
There was a point when music and video applications didn't run very well on Windows, and Linux was too difficult to use. However this hasn't really been true for decades now. The problem is these people have done nothing to update their knowledge since their first brush with it, and when the newbies ask what they should use they all point at their macs.
"Also, you're correct about the XBox not being popular. My parents would go weeks without selling an XBox game."
What a dumb statement. Of course they'd go weeks - brick and mortar game shops are dying. People who own XBox One and PS4 systems are using digital distribution for the most part.
There are stark differences between a PC and a console when it comes to how people perceive exclusives. Most AAA games come out for all the major consoles. With Linux, most AAA games don't get support at all. So, having a single exclusive isn't going to help you unless you can deal with the problem of large existing libraries which wouldn't work on Linux.
This is exactly why I run a Linux virtual machine as a guest in my windows box, and I run Linux at work. I realize this isn't a viable solution for everyone, but it works great for me. There are some things Linux just does orders of magnitude better. I just don't think gaming is one of those things. I prefer the right tool for a given job.
I don't think that's entirely fair - there are some compelling titles available for Linux. I just don't think it's enough - especially for gamers like me that have well over 300 titles in their steam library and don't want to give up 70% of them just to run an OS that will not play the remaining 30% as well as Windows will.
In the short term, and in the long term. People will not switch operating systems just for those games. Most people won't even switch given the current size of the Linux catalog. Get it out of your head right now.
Most gamers don't give a hot shit whether their games are running on windows 7, 8, or 10 - they just want their games to run. Give them the operating system that runs all the games they want to play and they won't care what it's called. You need to drop this notion that every consumer out there cares about your philosophical operating system debate.
People won't switch to Linux simply because you wish it. There has to be some tangible benefit to doing so that gamers can't live without. Right now there is none. Any game worth mentioning runs on Windows, and only a small portion of those run on Linux. Call me when Linux can get commercially viable games exclusive to it, because right now your game must support Windows if it's to succeed, but it doesn't have to have Linux support at all to be successful.
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There's no struggle - the drivers work fine. Far better then the opensource alternative too.
This is a clear case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Not only do you now have underperforming video hardware, you have underperforming drivers to go with it.
I read this as "the right to pay far too much for two year old technology"
So why aren't they going after apple, which is far more closed and restrictive than android? With android you can just get the source and build your own ecosystem on top of it if you want. With iOS, it's their way or the highway. Apple's iphone IS a monopoly, far more than Android ever could be.
For those arguing that Android isn't open, or requires google's strict approval, please explain the hundreds of custom android builds out there - almost none of which sought permission from google.
Linux users whine that the games aren't being built for their platform, but refuse to make it a platform that the average person wants to use. You can't say "adopt Linux" while simultaneously saying "don't dumb it down, just learn to use a command line like the rest of us".
Microsoft literally laughs at the Linux desktop effort. It has so many people pulling in so many different directions that it will never get its shit together unless someone takes direct control of enough components to put it all together under a single cohesive vision. Of course, his flies in the face of what Linux users are all about. So if it ever happened they'd all complain that it wasn't open enough, or that there wasn't enough choice, or that binary drivers were polluting the FOSS ecosystem or some shit.
Big game studios are dismissive of Linux because there's no money there. It's been tried - over and over. Remember Loki games? You know why that stopped? Many Linux users pirated the software because they're used to the idea that software should be free not as in beer, but free as in cost nothing. The few that did buy the games weren't enough to support them. As a result Loki went bankrupt. These days if a game has Linux support it's a value add. It's not expected to make any real money, because there's none to be made. So if you want to point a finger at anyone for the present state of affairs, you can thank the users themselves.
Spoken like a complete idiot.
Only an idiot thinks this is viable on today's internet.
...which is exactly what every popular CMS does...
Just drop AMD from your equipment. You'll be a lot better off.
AI isn't advanced enough for this to even begin to be a worry. Even after someone successfully develops the world's first viable AI it will be so astronomically expensive there'll only be one or two in the world.
Smart people are over-reacting, and the media is loving it. That's all you're seeing here.
The point you're not getting is that there is no bright side. There is no point where anyone benefits here. NK will get annihilated killing many innocents there (I mean, come on, I bet a lot of people there aren't there by choice) but not before they shell the shit out of South Korea.
You're as stupid as she is.
I hate this argument. "I've never had problems, so nobody has problems". Every laptop I've ever tried to put linux on has had some part of it just flat out not work, or work poorly.
There was a point when music and video applications didn't run very well on Windows, and Linux was too difficult to use. However this hasn't really been true for decades now. The problem is these people have done nothing to update their knowledge since their first brush with it, and when the newbies ask what they should use they all point at their macs.
Christ, it's so very easy to build a PC that outperforms the highest end mac at a fraction of the cost. Mac users are getting scammed.
Indeed. Also very convenient for the increasingly rare LAN party. Man I miss those.
"high school comp sci teacher"
You can stop talking now.
"Also, you're correct about the XBox not being popular. My parents would go weeks without selling an XBox game."
What a dumb statement. Of course they'd go weeks - brick and mortar game shops are dying. People who own XBox One and PS4 systems are using digital distribution for the most part.
Yeah, because millions of innocent dead is a bright side. Some of the things you say are so stupid they're baffling.
Anything that cutting edge will cost as much as 5 of your gaming rigs put together.
There are stark differences between a PC and a console when it comes to how people perceive exclusives. Most AAA games come out for all the major consoles. With Linux, most AAA games don't get support at all. So, having a single exclusive isn't going to help you unless you can deal with the problem of large existing libraries which wouldn't work on Linux.
This is exactly why I run a Linux virtual machine as a guest in my windows box, and I run Linux at work. I realize this isn't a viable solution for everyone, but it works great for me. There are some things Linux just does orders of magnitude better. I just don't think gaming is one of those things. I prefer the right tool for a given job.
I don't think that's entirely fair - there are some compelling titles available for Linux. I just don't think it's enough - especially for gamers like me that have well over 300 titles in their steam library and don't want to give up 70% of them just to run an OS that will not play the remaining 30% as well as Windows will.
In the short term, and in the long term. People will not switch operating systems just for those games. Most people won't even switch given the current size of the Linux catalog. Get it out of your head right now.
Most gamers don't give a hot shit whether their games are running on windows 7, 8, or 10 - they just want their games to run. Give them the operating system that runs all the games they want to play and they won't care what it's called. You need to drop this notion that every consumer out there cares about your philosophical operating system debate.
People won't switch to Linux simply because you wish it. There has to be some tangible benefit to doing so that gamers can't live without. Right now there is none. Any game worth mentioning runs on Windows, and only a small portion of those run on Linux. Call me when Linux can get commercially viable games exclusive to it, because right now your game must support Windows if it's to succeed, but it doesn't have to have Linux support at all to be successful.
That may be true, but only The Orb can produce Toxygene.