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>>emidoo+(OP)
Microsoft has no incentive to make good software. Most people will use it no matter what.

>>mouse_+L9
That is not true. People use it as long as the pain of using it, is lower than the pain of switching. Assuming they have even something to switch for.

>>lukan+eg
Thankfully Valve is doing the good work to keep game developers targeting Windows and DirectX without caring about alternatives on the PC space.

>>pjmlp+kh
Apologies if I'm misreading your intention, but are you suggesting that Valve's work on Wine is somehow worse than asking game developers to target Linux/other OSes natively? As a Linux desktop enthusiast, I much prefer the Valve's approach: the library of existing Windows-only games that are unlikely to be ever ported is too vast, and the benefits of targeting a disjointed[1] platform with <2% market share[2] for new games are not at all clear. It's only thanks to Valve that I (and hopefully many other Linux users) do not need to maintain a second Windows system for fun, as the majority of games run perfectly fine on Linux and require nothing more than clicking Install then Play in the Steam client.

[1] Case in point: glibc's compatibility guarantees are weaker than what you get on Windows. (For instance, your system's glibc cannot be older than what a game is built against, which may present problems for devs using Fedora/Arch and players on Debian/LTS Ubuntu, something I've experienced first-hand for my apps.) The X11 to Wayland migration is also still underway. (Though things are getting better, the attitudes of some Wayland maintainers are a bit concerning: "I don't [care] what you think is normal behavior for games. You get certain guarantees with wayland. Deal with it. If clients decide to do exactly what they do on windows or X11 they won't work correctly." [3] I'm not sure game developers would enjoy such reception.)

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/18...

>>timlat+pk
indeed

Windows is going to end up as the 2030s version of dosbox

edit: as in Windows ends up with the same fate as MS-DOS: replaced with a piece of software analogous to dosbox

>>blibbl+2p
Which runs MS-DOS games, not GNU/Linux.