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Valve had to make an entire operating system to make this the case for steam games. A lot of these capabilities would rely on windows, sleeping and resuming th
by jerojero 11mo ago
Valve had to make an entire operating system to make this the case for steam games.
A lot of these capabilities would rely on windows, sleeping and resuming the system thats entirely the purview of the OS.
And Microsoft just doesn't care.
- nsxwolf 11mo agoMicrosoft’s core competency is a general purpose operating system that can be used for anything and work with infinite combinations of hardware. The fact that you can almost, sort of use a Windows PC as a gaming console, even with all the headaches that come with it, is something of a miracle.
- Zambyte 11mo agoMicrosoft had to make an entire operating system to make this the case for running Xbox games. Sony had to make an entire operating system to make this work for PlayStation games. I don't really know why that's significant.
- scns 11mo ago> Valve had to make an entire operating system A Linux distribution. Which is often done by one person. Zero snark intended.
- ekianjo 11mo agoValve did not write Linux from scratch or something...