What does this mean for Nvidia and AMD?
Nothing. The people that buy 250 watt, 300mm^2 GPUs to play games will continue to buy them.
Valve joins the Linux Foundation
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Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#12Personally I think the movement to Linux will greatly help Linux, but will hurt gamers. My opinion. We will see what the future holds.
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#13Right now the only thing keeping me from running linux full time is the Adobe Master Collection (PS AI LR ID AE...)
Will it run in a Windows VM on Linux?
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#14It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that's not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux. Edit: Valve's game list: http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/
OS X is not a good platform for gaming. It has a significantly smaller user base of which only an even more significantly smaller are gamers. Playing on a MacBook (or at least on my MacBook) is impossible, and I wouldn't buy an iMac for gaming. On the other hand, you can put Linux on anything (for free!), from your mom's 2002 pc to the latest generation hot stuff. This means there is indeed a potential, and somebody…
Why is playing on a MacBook impossible? (not a Mac user, serious question)
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#15Personally I think the movement to Linux will greatly help Linux, but will hurt gamers. My opinion. We will see what the future holds.
Not a gamer, why would that be?
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#16Until Linux fixes its desktop story I'm going to stick with my Windows PC.
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#17Until Linux fixes its desktop story I'm going to stick with my Windows PC.
What's broken about it?
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
OS X is not a good platform for gaming. It has a significantly smaller user base of which only an even more significantly smaller are gamers. Playing on a MacBook (or at least on my MacBook) is impossible, and I wouldn't buy an iMac for gaming. On the other hand, you can put Linux on anything (for free!), from your mom's 2002 pc to the latest generation hot stuff. This means there is indeed a potential, and somebody…
Why is playing on a MacBook impossible? (not a Mac user, serious question)
The driver performance just isn't there. If you have a cross-platform game and run it on the same Apple machine in OS X and on Windows, the Windows version's gonna be WAY more performant.
As a lesser frustration, most Windows games I play natively support the Xbox 360 controller, whereas almost no OS X ports do.
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
OS X is not a good platform for gaming. It has a significantly smaller user base of which only an even more significantly smaller are gamers. Playing on a MacBook (or at least on my MacBook) is impossible, and I wouldn't buy an iMac for gaming. On the other hand, you can put Linux on anything (for free!), from your mom's 2002 pc to the latest generation hot stuff. This means there is indeed a potential, and somebody…
Why is playing on a MacBook impossible? (not a Mac user, serious question)
Not enuf grunt :(
Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
#20(Link)[0] to the actual announcement.
[0]: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2013...