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Roybe

Roybe
Put on those tin foil hats folks!

Would it surprise you that TenCent has a stake in Universal studios (wondered how Frontier got the licensing for the Jurassic World game...check it out)!
 

Faybs

Faybs
Roybe said:
Put on those tin foil hats folks!

Would it surprise you that TenCent has a stake in Universal studios (wondered how Frontier got the licensing for the Jurassic World game...check it out)!
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Heh, that does explain how Universal even knew that Frontier existed. I was a bit surprised they didn't pick one of the larger studios for that game.

iFred said:
Who cares? 0,00001% of the playerbase?
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Well, I care :)
 

Julio Montega

Julio Montega
iFred said:
Who cares? 0,00001% of the playerbase?
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Depends how well the work on the vulcan open grpahics interface continues.
I surely hope for a gaming future for Linux without emulation or having
a Windows partition as secondary OS.

Due time to give Windows some competition in the gaming scene.
 

Julio Montega

Julio Montega
picommander said:
I've pretty much given up on these dreams. There was a time were the quality difference between Linux and Windows was much greater in favor of Linux. These times have passed while convenience was the stronger selling point, obviously...
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Well now the vulcan interface will be able to replace directX,
don't give up the market needs a change.
Even SC is supporting the vulcan development,
they want to go part ways with windows afaik.
That is some leverage.
 

Faybs

Faybs
picommander said:
I've pretty much given up on these dreams. There was a time were the quality difference between Linux and Windows was much greater in favor of Linux. These times have passed while convenience was the stronger selling point, obviously...
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The two OSs are rapidly reaching parity, in fact depending on who you ask we're already there with the latest Ubuntu and Mint distros. Soon it's going to be just a matter of taste which one you use, just like 30 or so years ago when we had a much healthier software ecosystem.
 
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Faybs

Faybs
picommander said:
I always love to be positively surprised and proven wrong. :)



Reaching parity in what, active users perhaps? I doubt this but that's what actually matters in the end.
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Not active users (Windows has a huge lead on that, and that's fine as long as apps get written for other platforms, as we're in fact seeing now), but on functionality and ease of use. I remember when you had to find the source code for a particular driver and compile it into your kernel, which would often cause errors that you'd have to fix yourself because the guy who wrote the driver was using a different distro. These days I'm surprised when I plug something mainstream into a Linux laptop and it doesn't work (and some quick googling reveals what I need to do to get it to work). In terms of ease of use, thank heaven we've gotten past the era of wobbly 3d rendered effects and everyone is more or less just copying Microsoft and Apple. Those two are spending millions on UI research, why not stand on their shoulders?
 
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Julio Montega

Julio Montega
Faybs said:
Not active users (Windows has a huge lead on that, and that's fine as long as apps get written for other platforms, as we're in fact seeing now), but on functionality and ease of use. I remember when you had to find the source code for a particular driver and compile it into your kernel, which would often cause errors that you'd have to fix yourself because the guy who wrote the driver was using a different distro. These days I'm surprised when I plug something mainstream into a Linux laptop and it doesn't work (and some quick googling reveals what I need to do to get it to work). In terms of ease of use, thank heaven we've gotten past the era of wobbly 3d rendered effects and everyone is more or less just copying Microsoft and Apple. Those two are spending millions on UI research, why not stand on their shoulders?
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As long as that doesn't include sending all your data to redmont.....
Privacy and data security should be a bigger topic for everyone.
 

Julio Montega

Julio Montega
picommander said:
If that would actually be the case the current Open mode in FD wouldn't be possible. No one would use port forwarding or UPnP which would result in no more hosts in instances and the whole shiny peer to peer chart house would fall apart.
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;) It was an exaggeration, yet a lot of info goes there, just look at Cortana.
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Linux gaming is a thing and things improving rappidly.

Said that, I don't see FD having business reason to do ED port to Linux, at least not any time soon.
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
Probably aiming at mobile platforms. There's some interest in "Google-free Android", and having a foot in that door helps supporting own custom platforms that may not be the ARM charlie-foxtrot.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
I remember when Linux was rapidly becoming mainstream in the 90s when I started out in CS. I'm sure if I asked around I could find people that said the same thing when Elite came out in '84.
 
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