Understandable, but that was before M$ decided to shoot itself.
Win 7 was arguably M$'s last best OS. Then it decided to kill WMC, soon followed by killing off Technet. After which it decided it wanted to Android for desktop with Google style penetration into user activity to sell advertising.
As desktop die-hards are forced to migrate to Linux, desktop gaming will be forced to follow at some point. It may be a slow process, but it appears we are moving in that direction.
1.5%, just behind Apple iOS at 1.9%.
Which is why these OSs “don’t get viruses”. Why waste your time coding for 3.4% of the market?
I hate to be the bubble-burster, but I’ll say with absolute 99.999999% certainty that there will never be an official Linux release of Elite during its official lifespan. OpenGL is dead. Only Apple cares about Metal, and programmers really only want to work and learn one API. Any guesses which one?
Here’s a hint, it’s the one with that largest market share that will allow them to sell the most software to the most people. Call it a shame if you need to, because as OSs go Linux IS a very good OS. But decades of nerdery and elitist attitudes have sealed its fate, to eternally struggle to hold on to 3rd place in the consumer market.
You're kidding yourself if you think that. Heard the same thing 15/10/5 years ago. Microsoft are better placed now than they ever have been.
With all the user data they have collected with windows 10, they are the borg incarnate. Too big to die, a regrettably necessary and pernicious evil.
I had TrackIR working under ubuntu a few years back, IIRC it was a wrapper of some sort but it worked fine at the time.
That bites. But will Vive work? I'd eventually get one to replace my trackir anyway.
Interesting
My brother was a top executive at Kodak in 1985 when I tried to explain the digital photography revolution to him.
His reaction was quite similar.
Steam has pretty much nothing to do with it. Steam doesn’t produce anything, it’s just a digital store. Individual developers are what produce titles and decide what OSs they will develop for. Most choose windows. Some, like Craneballs, produce for windows and Linux. See Planet Nomads.
It took a technological revolution that Kodak ignored for years to dethrone them. How does this compare to Microsoft today? Even if you forget gaming for a second I don't think you guys realize how entrenched Microsoft is in the corporate world. They're in millions of offices, all of which are under long term service contracts. That doesn't just go away because some neckbeards like compiling their own kernal.
How can you say that?
They engage with game producers to try to persuade them to think outside the MS_only box.
As the largest (I think) digital game delivery platform, SteamOS, and Steam Play, I believe they are directly responsible for the recent uptick in linux availability to titles.
So yeah, for everybody following there's lot of development in Wine / Proton front, follow this thread here. I also updated OP for installation instructions with wine vanilla. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ng-Wine-EXPERIMENTAL-NOT-OFFICIALLY-SUPPORTED
Long story short - we can launch game under Wine (YAY!), game looks gorgeous in DXVK mode, keyboard needs to be sorted out. Keep testing and keep playing peeps!
Long story short - we can launch game under Wine (YAY!), game looks gorgeous in DXVK mode, keyboard needs to be sorted out. Keep testing and keep playing peeps!
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Please to see there is success for Linux users, keep it going.
Thankyou!!! 
Almost free from Windows. Made my year
Almost free from Windows. Made my year