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wine runs older windows games better than modern Windows with Microsoft's declining focus on compatibility, the time is coming where the majority of Windows ga

wine runs older windows games better than modern Windows with Microsoft's declining focus on compatibility, the time is coming where the majority of Windows games now run best on something that isn't Windows (not to mention the lack of ads, spyware, general lack of stability and forced reboots)

pjmlp 4y ago
If you search for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8,...., versus Linux, you will find similar arguments being made as prophecy of the great migration.
- blibble 4y ago
  previously there wasn't an extremely profitable, market leading, privately owned gaming company with a founder that is completely and utterly determined to ditch Microsoft and share the result of that freely with the world
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    By creating a platform that emulates Windows, otherwise no one would bother to target their device natively. Those 2% market shared are filled with games that are developed on Windows, targeting Windows. Meaning those game studios will keep giving Microsoft money, and letting Valve do the needful to work on their platform.
    - blibble 4y ago
      > By creating a platform that emulates Windows, otherwise no one would bother to target their device natively. this is a stopgap measure to bootstrap demand for the platform because these days the target platform isn't Windows it's the game development kits sold as a service, like Unity and Unreal Engine both of which are now supported natively > Meaning those game studios will keep giving Microsoft money now you've lost me (it's also bizarre that you pop up in every single "Windows bad" post right on cue to defend Microsoft's honour) (edit: ah, found your linkedin, so you're an MS employee, I guess that explains it then)
      - pjmlp 4y ago
        I am an employee of a well known Fortune 500 consulting company, but definitly not Microsoft, better luck with your search next time. Microsoft is a company, there is no such thing as honour for business, only money and profits. Same applies to dumb quotes like "do no evil" and similar. You're right, Windows isn't the main target platform for AAA game studios, Playstation, XBox, Switch, iOS and Android are the ones briging big bags of money home.

pjmlp 4y ago

If you search for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8,...., versus Linux, you will find similar arguments being made as prophecy of the great migration.

blibble 4y ago
previously there wasn't an extremely profitable, market leading, privately owned gaming company with a founder that is completely and utterly determined to ditch Microsoft and share the result of that freely with the world
- pjmlp 4y ago
  By creating a platform that emulates Windows, otherwise no one would bother to target their device natively. Those 2% market shared are filled with games that are developed on Windows, targeting Windows. Meaning those game studios will keep giving Microsoft money, and letting Valve do the needful to work on their platform.
  - blibble 4y ago
    > By creating a platform that emulates Windows, otherwise no one would bother to target their device natively. this is a stopgap measure to bootstrap demand for the platform because these days the target platform isn't Windows it's the game development kits sold as a service, like Unity and Unreal Engine both of which are now supported natively > Meaning those game studios will keep giving Microsoft money now you've lost me (it's also bizarre that you pop up in every single "Windows bad" post right on cue to defend Microsoft's honour) (edit: ah, found your linkedin, so you're an MS employee, I guess that explains it then)
    - pjmlp 4y ago
      I am an employee of a well known Fortune 500 consulting company, but definitly not Microsoft, better luck with your search next time. Microsoft is a company, there is no such thing as honour for business, only money and profits. Same applies to dumb quotes like "do no evil" and similar. You're right, Windows isn't the main target platform for AAA game studios, Playstation, XBox, Switch, iOS and Android are the ones briging big bags of money home.