its honest a boon for gamers as microsoft now actually has to spend more effort making windows betters for gamers then spending all of its effort on windows for arm and AI. one of the things windows as an OS lacks is that the handheld experience is actually trash, and the OS is a resource hog for a handheld device
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They tried to make the handheld experience better in windows 8... ๐คฃ
imo the metro take of windows 8 wasn't the wrong approach for its intended market(tablets) it's just forcing it on desktop/laptop users as well as a boneheaded decision.
They need to stop forcing windows changes for ALL users, including to the users that can't use said features properly (as it was designed with touch screens in mind, and not everyone had touchscreens). Same idea with the more recent stuff involving Recall. not everyone has AI capable pcs, so its dumb to include the change to all users that will exist on the main branch of the OS, and would apply down the line to windows handhelds as well, who will likely not need recall as a feature as its using up resources. And im not like a person whose like fully Anti AI either, it just has its specific userbase that may need it, and there are others (like with a windows handheld case) that should not have it at all, as it is likely a detriment to battery if enabled by default.
Microsoft keeps doing it, and I don't expect they'll do anything different this time. They'll shove handheld UI into work laptops and piss off a ton of people, and then 5 years down the line they'll tear out a lot of work that they did and leave behind some remnant bloat
That's what I was implying with the elipses, I just couldn't be bothered writing all that ๐
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Competition is always great. To be fair, Windows wasn't really designed with a handheld game console in mind as its target distribution platform. SteamOS, at least its current version, was designed for that exact purpose. Would definitely welcome a more lightweight Windows to come from this though, not just for handhelds but just regular desktops too.
Microsoft wants all future apps to go through their store. Basically like Apple does in Mac. I do believe this is the future for Windows apps. Once that happens, Valve running on Windows will be second fiddle. Valve's only choice is to migrate to another OS or end up like Mozilla.
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See that's how you get people to like you more. Not whatever the hell social media CEOs keep doing.
They don't care about being liked, they just want to prop up the oligarchy by controlling access to information.
That "If" is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. Really interested to see where SteamOS goes in the future.
It's easy to understate what an unusual project SteamOS is. It represents over a dozen years of work from some of the industry's finest, is funded by a private company, yet is open source and free for everyone to use. "I'm pretty happy that we've managed to find a balance that's beneficial to everyone, while still being able to help this PC ecosystem in this way," says Griffais. "I'm really happy about that."
I can't wait to try it
That's cheeky.
What about Microsoft isn't a hollowed shell at this point? Maybe letting go of the gamers will let them find out a new way to make money.
the only one that can windows is microsoft
Windows: So you're saying there's a chance
It's about making more steam users. Windows is great, they can use steam. They're going after people who can't afford a pc. If people get a deck or steamos who already do own one, that's just gravy
The weird thing with this is i became a pc gamer precisely because it was the cheapest platform.
Most homes had/have a desktop pc. The hardware was mostly irrelevant because Low graphics settings where default and actually looked more readable then the dlss blurs of today.
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Kill windows we must.
In other words, git gud scrub
git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
Sounds like a skill issue