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So, based on your presumably vast experience in soft-real-time systems, 3D graphics programming, cross-platform development, and virtual reality UX, what do you

So, based on your presumably vast experience in soft-real-time systems, 3D graphics programming, cross-platform development, and virtual reality UX, what do you propose is the alternative? Hint: the reason they're probably looking at Windows--and that you are looking at Steam machines--is that there is a much more controllable environment for deployment. Having to deal with all the crazy of, say, X11 and OpenGL and nutzo drivers and everything when you really just want to install a super-low-latency path for your system is just a fool's errand.

yarrel 11y ago
Windows was founded on nutzo drivers. That's why they're specifying the environment so carefully.
fossuser 11y ago
Just to jump in here too, Bill Gates and Windows appealed to games and being the platform to support them in the 90s when Carmack and Doom were pushing things forward back then too. Currently reading Masters of Doom and it's really good in case people are interested. Here's the Promo video shown at a Microsoft event back then (cringe warning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVAhFYjp9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVAhFYjp9c