Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
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Microsoft isn’t terrified. The current CEO doesn’t give a shit about gaming. It’s foolish though — gaming is the “Trojan horse” that got people hooked on DoS/Windows. It’ll be someone else’s as Microsoft drops the ball.
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Can confirm; I would have switched 20 years ago. Unfortunately I won't drop the games I otherwise love to play, and most of them either have kernel level AC (a whole can of worms on its own) or are just not playable on any distro.
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If someone could finally find a way to run Adobe software on Linux please
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm51xZHZI6g
Not what you asked for but this might be interesting!
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Sorry but I can't watch that video for more than a few seconds, what a horrible way to try and get a point across.
There is no good alternative to Lightroom for me so I'll stick with it for now. May well be different for video software.
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Valve hat zumindest echt so ein bisschen eine Marktlücke etabliert. Und ich kann mir schon gut vorstellen, dass einige Leute gerne den Tower-PC einmotten, wenn sie mit einem Handheld ähnliche Spiele spielen können. Für viele Anwender reicht ja mittlerweile ein Browser und das Handy, um die allermeisten Sachen zu machen.
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Eh. Home users often don't even pay for their licenses.
Selling windows licenses to other businesses has always been how windows made most of its money. I don't even want to think of how much work it would be to get hexagenarian office workers to switch to Ubuntu (or any other flavor of linux, frankly). That's not a dig on Linux, it's just that trying to switch to any other operating system would be so painful that MS could ask basically any price and companies would pay it.
The gaming/home user space may well continue to slide toward Linux, and I hope it does. But making inroads to the corporate desktop is the real challenge.
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I’m not sure they should be… most of Microsoft’s income comes from business. O365 and oem keys on all the laptops sold to companies heavily outweigh gamers home systems.
A lot of the reasoning for using MS products in businesses is that people are used to them from home.
So the workers run Windows computers with MS Office because that is what they know since childhood because at home there was a Windows computer with MS Office.
This wont take immediate effect. But it can erode the basis for MS in the long run. Especially as they are pulling the stunts with Win11 and price gouging on O365 licences.
I switched to linux last year. Buying a new computer without OEM Windows licencse was 200 € cheaper. And O365 doing everything as a web app also means you dont need to run Windows to run MS Office anymore.
Meanwhile Steam is pushing compatability for games and sooner or later businesses will consider switching to a linux distro and run their Windows software in a compatability environment, as well as more and more software producers will work on compatability or even native.
This will take time, but MS arrogance will be its downfall.
i know more folks who are entirely disconnected from the office ecosystem than i do folks who use even a single office product. google ate office’s lunch like a decade ago, i reckon that was at least part of the reason microsoft switched over to the subscription model.
i wouldn’t be surprised if their market share of office apps has shrunk by ~50% in the past 10 years. they’re trying to pull an adobe, but in contrast adobe at least had some killer apps in their suite. office hasn’t brought anything to the table what wasn’t already there in AGES.
I dunno, every damn says admin job listing I’m seeing these days is asking for windows admins. For sure Google made a dent but how many of those Google shops are also using windows devices to access Google docs and still use Active Directory? They have their fingers in so many pies in the business world I think they honestly couldn’t care less about home users.