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That's not at all what the article shows.
by craftyguy 7y ago
That's not at all what the article shows.
- tellak 7y agoI read the article and it seems like a fair summary. I mean they even added the onus to bring more games to Linux first and then we will get moving on our part. I’m a Linux user, really a small private company making a business decision doesn’t bother me and people getting pissy about the first message was silly imho. But the only thing that changed here was the pr.
- shrimp_emoji 7y agoIt's exactly what it shows. A zealous Tuxist, slighted by the insolence toward their beliefs but bitterly satisfied by the backpeddling was quoted as saying, >Basically yea, but it's nice to know they'll keep their opinions to themselves from now on. I use Arch (Manjaro cough) btw. I practically use Linux exclusively. But stuff like this is kind of funny. We live in a strange (dark?) time with respect to the OS ecosystem. This is an artifact of it. The main OS is a bloated, closed, insecure, arguably hostile one, while the open, free one enjoys a kind of ethereal salience (both pragmatic and ideological) in the hearts, minds, and practice of technologists. That gives the open one a political protection completely disproportionate with its tiny consumer base and economic relevance to consumer-facing capitalists (who drive the entire technology sector).
- mruts 7y agoI don't think the real problem is about Windows tools not working on Linux, but about Linux tools not working on Unix. Stuff like Systemd and Wayland don't even care about anything besides Linux.