In production builds, Microsoft is A/B testing a new ‘feature’ that is designed to nag users with fullscreen window-less Microsoft Edge recommendations in the OOBE screen. The nag will appear when users set up their PC, sign in to their system after applying updates, or when they click on a new ad banner within the […]
  • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Please Linux, get your shit together and let me game so I can be done with this shitty operating system

    • SirLotsaLocks [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I play a reasonable amount of games and have been able to play everything I play without any extra configuration and any problems, only 2 games I wanted to play didn't work like that, 1 space engineers, which I actually gave up on but it technically should work, and CoD black ops 2. Other than that @MichaelCallow is right, its more likely a game will work than not, and the times it doesn't its because the devs specifically don't want to like epic games and easy anticheat.

    • Koa_lala [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Please just make a fucking subsystem so I can run windows apps like the adobe suite on linux and I'm off this shitty os immediately.

      • SirLotsaLocks [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        and the best way to entice devs is to use it and increase the userbase

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I'm a machinist by trade, but ever since the 5th grade I wanted to be a game developer. Maybe I would have done it if the industry wasn't so shit and community college wasn't a joke - but along the lines of pursuing this "life dream" I learned a decent bit about computer science. In my personal experience, Linux was the most pleasant development environment dating back 15 years. Thousands of indie games get put out with Linux support every year. It isn't a problem with the development environment.

          The problem if anything, is the end user marketshare. Large studios look at OS marketshare and oftentimes decide Linux isn't worth it - even though several of the most sophisticated general purpose game engines support it, and if they adhered to good software development practices, it wouldn't be much trouble at all.