merlijn_s

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by merlijn_s 9y ago
It's not about steam machines, it's about the game catalogue. Steam has 3000+ titles on Linux and the Steam runtime takes away a lot of the pain of developing for Linux.
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by merlijn_s 9y ago
Valve's announcement that games ran faster on SteamOS had an almost immediate response: > “A few weeks after this post went out, some very senior developers from Microsoft came by for a discrete visit. They loved our post, because i
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by merlijn_s 9y ago
Roughly 1/3 of the steam library runs on Linux. Valve continues to update SteamOS, and they are still heavily involved in creating Linux drivers and middleware. Every week new games are ported, new frameworks are released with Linux su
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by merlijn_s 9y ago
Yes! Developers are people too..
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by merlijn_s 9y ago
The biggest issue is the distribution. One of the devs of the Minecraft Windows 10 edition said that it would be trivial to port that to desktop Linux but they would have to set up their own payment and distribution system, which just isn&#
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by merlijn_s 9y ago
Programming languages or platforms aren't the issue. Software packaging and distribution is. Porting is easy. Getting your software to users is hard. Look at the Minecraft pocket edition (and its Windows 10 respin), one of the devs sai
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by merlijn_s 9y ago
One of the big issues with their attempt was ~0 support or documentation for porting existing applications. Everything was focused around building an Ubuntu app from scratch using their custom qtquick-based SDK, but that's not what we
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by merlijn_s 9y ago
With the flatpack integration, Builder really has the potential to become the Xcode for Linux. I hope that Ubuntu starts to support Builder. Ubuntu tried something similar with qtcreator and the Ubuntu sdk, but that was a really bad experie