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> Windows has one major thing going for it: it’s best-in-class for gaming. > It might even be the greatest gaming platform of all time I keep hearing this. It'
by dissent 2y ago
> Windows has one major thing going for it: it’s best-in-class for gaming.
> It might even be the greatest gaming platform of all time
I keep hearing this. It's the worst gaming platform of all time. Windows was brute forced into being the only gaming platform on desktop computing due to the total dominance of the IBM PC and the Windows operating system. Neither of these were designed for games. Only cheap hardware and very powerful CPUs compared to the alternative made them viable at all. It should be viewed in terms of opportunity cost - what could gamers have had if it wasn't for Windows?
- red-iron-pine 2y agogaming on linux is pretty good these days. been using Fedora as a daily driver since ~2009 and with Nvidia and AMD cards. it's had some rough points, but both the nVidia proprietary, and AMD open source drivers are solid. CP2077 works just fine, ditto for the Halo collection. Proton is amazing and works out of the box.
- dissent 2y agoWhich they had to do by wrapping the entire proprietary win32 API, we had to wait decades, and it needed Valve behind it. All without Microsoft's cooperation. Their strategy was to make it the best gaming platform by making it the only gaming platform, and it was very successful.