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by wqaatwt 2y ago
If you also offload rendering and stuff like occlusion culling to the server it might actually work. Wouldn’t be a great experience though. Especially not for a competitive game. > They should fix the game so that tampering with it doesn
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> be damaged, it's your god given right to do it. Just like it’s the “god given right” of the organization running the server you want to connect to to boot you from it for whatever reason they want to. Or do you disagree with that?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I think you’re really quite confused about how video games or anti-cheat software works. They don’t prevent you from editing your computer memory or even from cheating as such. Rather they merely inform the multiplayer server i.e. other pla
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
They “could” also create a new interface that's somehow more efficient for Windows. Oh wait.. I don’t think MS has the attention span for stuff like that. Especially considering the limited short to medium term payoff. They could buy U
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
But they are inherently different and not really comparable to macOS or Windows so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense. For instance where exactly do you draw a line between which app/package/component is part of a Linux distribution
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Still a nicer problem to have than developing “non crappy” APIs that nobody uses or cares about.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
It didn’t for decades (in this specific regard) why does you think it could change? People running Linux hate software shipped as binaries due to various technical and ideological reasons. Why would this change?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So any more “native” alternative to Proton would do even worse because at least not it’s at least keep Linux in sync with the real world?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
And what exactly would they do?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Sure, MS could purposefully try and make their first party games not run on Linux. However.. why? It would be the same as purposefully losing money but not selling on Steam. Besides that what could they do? Within getting into all types of
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> could point to some specific distros which choose to bundle Why does that matter if that’s not how most users do it? There is no magical dividing lines between a distribution and the user choosing to install a random collection of apps
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> has poorly organized system configuration app To be fair almost all Linux distros are as bad if not worse in this regard. Things like YAST which are supposed to fix that are unambiguously horrible in their own right (extremely slow, c
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
What about it? I’m just curious what specifically do you think MS could do that wouldn’t get them into extreme trouble with the EU/FTC?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
If Linux gaming picks up and it gains significant market share then that is not an issue. Game developers will not use APIs that don’t work on the machines of ~20% of their users (or won’t make it mandatory, anyway) Considering the alternat
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> forcing devs to rely on APIs not easier to copy Would that still not be easier than developing something stable and finding ways to force 3rd party developers to support Linux? (when you can offer them anything in return)
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> We would have an ecosystem of native GNU/Linux games Or we wouldn’t, perhaps a small fraction would be available on Linux severely limiting the appeal of devices running SteamOS etc. which would just give the entire handheld marke
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
They ad up though. How many DUI murders are equivalent to a single premeditated murder? But yeah, people in these positions rarely need or want to directly kill someone, they have other means to achieve their goals. Yet many financial or ot
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> isn't worth it. Exactly. If Valve went the native route why would that have changed? > Which as IBM discovered You keep repeating that in every comment but I don’t quite understand how is this some conclusive argument. Especial
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Also good luck supporting If Nvidia and game developers care about supporting Linux they’ll try to figure something out. If they don’t they won’t. But surely the cost required to do so is lower when targeting Wine/Proton than nati
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> These corporations are shipping literal rootkits to people. Same applies to products such as CrowdStrike and similar stuff which in my opinion might be even worse (Anticheat rootkits at least provide some real value.. I’m not really an
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> It would be native And? I fail to see how is that so valuable on its own. I mean don’t get me wrong I do see some merits but realistically if Valve went that way they would struggle getting of the ground and it would just be a waste of
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> ones barging in Well.. no. They are for better or for worse explicitly invited.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> play these things on our terms Due to some reason a lot of people want to use public servers and matchmaking. Likely they wouldn’t do that if anticheat root kits didn’t exist. I don’t particularly care about games like this either nor
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> I don't care enough about most games to even consider it Well yes, but millions of people feel otherwise. Why do you think that game developers have some nefarious reasons for this and want to usurp your computer? To what ends? I
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> They don't want you to cheat Why do you think that is? I’m sure they wouldn’t bother with it if most gamers were fine playing against cheaters.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So it wouldn’t be native Linux? Why build something from scratch when Wine/Proton is already there and is pretty much the same thing? Of course that would be the trivial (if still very complicated and expensive on its own) part, incent
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
To be fair pretty much all of that stuff can be disabled by tweaking a few settings (on pro/enterprise at least). I do get the update notifications but that’s it.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> ever having to see the windows logo Why? I mean you can pretty much just boot directly into Steam’s full screen mode and almost never interact with Windows already.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Presumably the EU/etc. would go after them if they tried something like this? Besides desktop isn’t really as important to MS these days as it used to be. > fostered a native GNU/Linux Wouldn’t that require a stable ABI and suc
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> What I look forward is that it expands to GNU/Linux native Wouldn’t that mean that games would need to be constantly updated every few years to continue working? Windows/DirectX seems like a much more stable system for propri

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