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Valve on why they're favouring Linux over Windows 8


GamerOS, An Enhanced Version of SteamOS - Boiling Steam

It was an exciting time for Linux gaming. Gabe Newell complained of Windows 8 and its' awful representation of being a desktop-tablet hybrid, ...

OpenGL vs DirectX re:Device Context and Windows 8

... Windows - not to speak of Linux - and I doubt that Valve didn't do their best to optimize the D3D renderer. The device context thing is best ...

Max on Linux - MaxMSP Forum | Cycling '74

This has a number of reasons, but most technically that the methods that hackers use to crack and distribute pirated games rely on aspects of windows that wine ...

Valve Steps Up for Linux Gaming Again - YouTube

... Valve has proven many times over the years that they are a friend of Linux ... Linux, they made Proton for Windows games on Linux, and the ...

Linux market share passes 4% for first time | [H]ard|Forum

If you want market share, you compare sales of computers attached to a given OS. That's easy for macOS, but you probably won't get a realistic ...

Has Linux become Valve's personal operating system for ... - Quora

No, Steam still operates with Windows being the primary OS that people use for PC Gaming. They did however choose to use Linux for the Steam ...

Windows is better than Linux :: Off Topic - Steam Community

saying ''oh they're just noob'' is no a good counter-arguments in favor of linux. if I have to be smart as anthony to install linux and make the thing run as ...

Valve announces SteamOS, a living-room operating system for games

We watched Valve as it experimented with game controllers, and denounced Windows 8 in favor of Linux. We theorized about what the Steam Box ...

The Year of Linux on the Desktop - Linus Tech Tips

Proper IPv6 support, Unity desktop, Rhythmbox was back, it was just an outstanding release. It also came at a time when Windows 8 was a real ...

Future Talk: Notch On Steam, Windows 8, What's Next

Linux is a very open platform. The way that Gabe Newell puts it is that games have a way of making people try new platforms. So the stated plan, ...

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows

Well I don't know... For the sake of attracting more users, Linux usage tends to become more and more Windows-like. Best illustration is the ...

What is keeping you from switching to Linux? - gHacks Tech News

Its not more popular not because of too much variety but because it doesn't come installed on computers and it requires a bit of effort. Heavens ...

Linux Client - Page 2 - WoW Classic General Discussion

Thus like Valve, you hedge your bets against the fact that Windows might screw itself out of a market even more with poor development ...

Valve showers Debian Linux devs with FREE Steam games

Not surprisingly, perhaps, SteamOS is based on Debian. Specifically, it is a fork of the Debian 7.1 "Wheezy" stable distribution with additions ...

Valve's Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 "a catastrophe" - Tech Digest

For Valve's Steam, recently announced Linux support may prove key: “We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run ...

If Your PC Won't Run Windows 11, Here Are 5 Great Linux ...

Linux Mint created Cinnamon and makes the best user-friendly Linux OS out there. It's the best choice for people transitioning from Windows. It ...

Objective reasons to prefer Linux to Windows. - GitHub

Windows LiveCDs, though they do exist, are hampered by licensing restrictions and technical limitations. For example, until Windows 8, desktop ...

Windows 7 or 8 for gaming desktop pc?? - Page 2

It is not just a coincidence. It is one of the things Microsoft worked on with Windows 8 in thread scheduling. Ontop of this Civ was re- ...

Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this. (Page 2 ...

A minimal Linux-based “SteamOS”, just for gaming, would allow Valve to divorce itself entirely from Microsoft without forcing users to dump ...

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

So if you purchased a game on Windows, you could play it on Linux if it had a Native Linux version (same again for macOS). Clearly though, that ...