alt Hacker NewsGiven the current momentum, it feels like (to me) the adage of “Windows is for Games” is going by the wayside.
If you look at Steam, and OSs like Bazzite it’s clear the consumer-side is finally shoring up. But that aside, from an economic incentive, game providers (for example Amazon Luna), don’t want to be paying the licenses for running Windows machines for Video Game Streaming on Demand. In fact, at my time there one of the major thing I worked on was figuring out how to stream the games using Linux + Proton + Vulkan so we could use the AMD machines.
Honestly the biggest hurdle was (and probably still is) Anti-Cheat and BattlEye.
At any rate, I’m personally happy to see this trend as I haven’t had a Windows OS since Windows 7.
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Online multiplayer games keep trying to allow linux users in and keep having to lock them out because there's an instant influx of cheaters.
The Nintendo Switch (which runs Linux) was a favorite of cheaters after jailbreaks came out.
When anyone can compile and run their own kernel with god knows what for modifications, that makes it substantially easier for cheaters and substantially harder for anti-cheat. I don't see that ever changing.
You can't rely on server-side detection either, because some of the cheats are so advanced they go to great lengths to "behave" like a highly skilled human player would with their aiming
Nah.
Linux is still too bloody awful for power users, never mind the median gamer.
Most Linux usage is SteamOS which only barely counts.
It’s a great hedge that keeps Windows almost honest. But we’re a long long long long long <breathe> long long long ways from the median gaming PC being Linux.
>Given the current momentum, it feels like (to me) the adage of “Windows is for Games” is going by the wayside.
I think that games have been a strategic priority for Windows for a very long time. Going all the way back to DOS/4GW on Windows 95. But the impression I get from Microsoft is that they kind of don't want the hassle of maintaining a desktop OS anymore, and they would be happier if everyone went elsewhere.