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Amdlova Some games even with windows xp 32bits have some kind of issue. I use the dxvoodoo2 to make more compatible. Some direct-x 6 games only works with voodoo and mambo jambo shanigams… Reply
ezst036 Its so wonderful to see Microsoft's gaming empire slowly crumble right before its eyes. Shortly before Valve announced its foray into Linux gaming a little over a decade ago, if people would have said "When Linux comes to make its heavy inroads into the desktop, it will be gaming where Linux does this" nobody would've believed that. Yet here it is. Gaming is where Linux is slowly, slowly but surely taking down Windows. Just recently Linux marked 3% on the Steam survey and it wasn't all that long ago that Linux first crossed over 2%. The trend line has a distinct direction: up . Reply
thisisaname Gaming on Linux at least it is not all down to the steam deck. After the steam deck it took 7 quarter to make 2% and another 7 to make 3% in another 14 quarter it may get to 5%. As for Microsoft's gaming empire slowly crumbling it is doing so very very slowly Reply
TerryLaze ezst036 said: Its so wonderful to see Microsoft's gaming empire slowly crumble right before its eyes. Yes! DirectX 7 games, the last greatest bastion of windows gaming…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Reply
LordVile ezst036 said: Its so wonderful to see Microsoft's gaming empire slowly crumble right before its eyes. Shortly before Valve announced its foray into Linux gaming a little over a decade ago, if people would have said "When Linux comes to make its heavy inroads into the desktop, it will be gaming where Linux does this" nobody would've believed that. Yet here it is. Gaming is where Linux is slowly, slowly but surely taking down Windows. Just recently Linux marked 3% on the Steam survey and it wasn't all that long ago that Linux first crossed over 2%. The trend line has a distinct direction: up . It’s never going to gain significant market share unless they open up the OS to desktops and make it easy to install. Linux as an OS is a pain to use and requires more troubleshooting than actually using the thing until you’re years into using it. Reply
richardnpaul ezst036 said: Its so wonderful to see Microsoft's gaming empire slowly crumble right before its eyes. Shortly before Valve announced its foray into Linux gaming a little over a decade ago, if people would have said "When Linux comes to make its heavy inroads into the desktop, it will be gaming where Linux does this" nobody would've believed that. Yet here it is. Gaming is where Linux is slowly, slowly but surely taking down Windows. Just recently Linux marked 3% on the Steam survey and it wasn't all that long ago that Linux first crossed over 2%. The trend line has a distinct direction: up . Linux seems to be making big moves elsewhere, as stats elsewhere are showing with 5 or 6% penetration. With 90% odd of games working one way or another now and over 50% just basically working without effort this means that you don't really need to dual boot to game as you should just be able to do so on Linux the majority of the time. The more time that users spend in Linux then the more that they will show up in various stats, the more proficient they become and the more that they will promote it to family and friends. If management at MS is not having flashbacks to when Firefox and Chrome just stripped the browser dominance market away from them over the matter of a few years then they either weren't around at the time or they're just so far detatched from reality it's gobsmacking. Given motivation markets can switch relatively rapidly just because of social network effects and 5 – 6% should worry MS a lot because that's a lot of people potentially converting people to Linux because the PC they're being asked about doesn't support an upgrade to W11. Then the normies start to tell the other normies that they got moved to Linux and depending on individual experiences that can lead to further propagation. This is how IE was losing 10% market share per year over a number of years, but this time it would be from an actual revenue stream . Reply
LordVile richardnpaul said: Linux seems to be making big moves elsewhere, as stats elsewhere are showing with 5 or 6% penetration. With 90% odd of games working one way or another now and over 50% just basically working without effort this means that you don't really need to dual boot to game as you should just be able to do so on Linux the majority of the time. The more time that users spend in Linux then the more that they will show up in various stats, the more proficient they become and the more that they will promote it to family and friends. If management at MS is not having flashbacks to when Firefox and Chrome just stripped the browser dominance market away from them over the matter of a few years then they either weren't around at the time or they're just so far detatched from reality it's gobsmacking. Given motivation markets can switch relatively rapidly just because of social network effects and 5 – 6% should worry MS a lot because that's a lot of people potentially converting people to Linux because the PC they're being asked about doesn't support an upgrade to W11. Then the normies start to tell the other normies that they got moved to Linux and depending on individual experiences that can lead to further propagation. This is how IE was losing 10% market share per year over a number of years, but this time it would be from an actual revenue stream . Literally no Reply
richardnpaul LordVile said: Literally no Please explain why not. Reply
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