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by sfunk1x 3753 days ago
Rings a bit hollow.

Easy solution - don't develop games for Windows or Xbox!
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turbohz 3753 days ago
That's what sparked the creation of SteamOS. Let's hope developers get onboard and hardware vendors start (seriously) supporting the platform.
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UK-AL 3753 days ago
Steam is pretty much what windows is trying to do.
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toyg 3753 days ago
That's pretty much commercial suicide, at this point in time, for developers like him.
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bitmapbrother 3753 days ago
No it's not. There's always Sony, Nintendo and, of course, Steam - which will be void of UWP garbage.
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CamperBob2 3753 days ago
You don't seem to understand that UWP is a frontal assault on Steam.
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bitmapbrother 3753 days ago
And you and Microsoft need to understand that you cannot win against Steam as is evidenced by their embarrassing Windows gaming failures. You either embrace Steam or you're relegated to irrelevance.
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b0sk 3753 days ago
PC gaming (Windows) is a huuuge market. The GPU drivers support for Linux is poor.
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adwf 3753 days ago
Only the AMD ones. The Nvidia binary is actually pretty good and updated frequently.

Although if you're a Free/OSS zealot, you might not want to use the closed drivers. But if your alternative is the equally closed drivers on Windows, then what's the difference?

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