Re: For The Gamers

On 2024-12-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-21 à 14:02, rbowman a écrit :

https://www.wired.com/story/2024-was-the-year-the-bottom-fell-out-of-the-
games-industry/
 
I'd seen a few articles but never paid much attention. RPI put a lot of
effort into their video game degree program and thought the spinoffs might
revitalize the upstate NY economy. I wonder if they missed the boat or if
the industry will spring back?
 
Linux: who really cares if games run on Linux? It's a serious OS for
serious people.

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If it were a serious operating system for serious people, businesses and
academic institutions would be willing to run it, and invest in the
people necessary to troubleshoot it. Instead, both have realized that
its free cost does not result in savings of any kind because the
problems it causes often can't be resolved by even the most gifted of
technical staff. That's why they use Windows, even with the security issues.

The reason they use Windows is because it runs Microsoft Office (and
businesses are "married" to this crap) and Microsoft's has leverage with the
computer manufacturers. Monopolies have a lot of inertia that's hard to
overcome. But you'll note that, for development purposes, Microsoft is now
including Linux in Windows. There's a reason for that. And, as software
moves to the "rental" phase and more and more of the applications move to
the "Cloud", there will be less and less necessity to use Windows.

It will take a while though.

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