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by pjmlp 2418 days ago
An utopian escape hatch, store now also does Win32 and MSIX is the way forward.

Every year since XP I keep reading how PC gamers will switch in droves to Linux because of X, instead those of us that really enjoy gaming and high performance graphics are on Apple, Microsoft, Google, Sony and Nintendo platforms.
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baroffoos 2418 days ago
>gaming and high performance graphics

>Apple >Nintendo

What? Nintendo and apple do not provide high performance graphics for gaming. Apple actively tries to kill gaming on their platform by not supporting vulkan and killing open gl and nintendo has never had high performance graphics.

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pjmlp 2418 days ago
They do more high performance graphics than the large majority of GNU/Linux "gamming" environments.

Apple is not killing anything, anyone that has a name on the game industry already supports Metal, because professional game studios care about performance and productive tooling not about API religion wars.

Game consoles, outsolding any Linux based platform, also don't support Vulkan, so they are also killing gamming?

Yes, Switch does Vulkan, but their main 3D API is NVN and most of their titles are being done in Unity/Unreal, with Unity already having over 50% of Switch titles.

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jdnenej 2418 days ago
You are very uneducated on the topic if you think macos is a more suitable setup for gaming than Linux. The Mac gaming community consists mostly of casual gamers since the only hardware available is weak laptops or $10,000 workstations. Proton being built in to steam means that most games just work on Linux with a high level of performance. AMDs open source drivers are very good and included with the Linux kernel.

Currently there are no game consoles you could consider high performance but the switch is by far the lowest performance. Which is fine for what it is but it not even close to something you would substitute PC gaming with.

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pjmlp 2418 days ago
I bet I have been in more GDC events and some AAA studio offices than you have...
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prontentio 2418 days ago
It appears to not have done you any good.

Not only did you get significant details wrong, but when faced with criticism, you immediately do an appeal to authority.

Not a good look.

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pjmlp 2418 days ago
Well, I am used to FOSS bias against what professional game developers care about, to the point that even random accounts get created just to reply to me.

First learn about what the corridors of IGDA, PAX, GDC, GDCE, Reboot Develop look like, then do your religious wars on graphics APIs.

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imtringued 2417 days ago
I have spent more hours playing warframe on linux at 144fps than I would like to admit.
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