Today there are many more games that run on Windows than on Linux, that is a fact.

We are talking about a market that is based on existing games, so I don’t see how new machines could get rid of market leaders that work mainly under Windows. On the contrary, having access to Xbox Live seems to me to be an advantage.

You can always claim that you can do everything on a steamdeck, it is not necessarily straight forward and within the reach of the newcomer. Not everyone is a computer engineer or want to push the “switch to dev mode button”.

On the desktop part, the comparison does not hold that we are talking about the number of software in the libraries, or the number of compatible devices. Linux market share for desktops after 30 years is barely 5% of the park. Now, if you just want to start a browser or read your emails, a Linux should be enough.

Since 2013, Steam has an overall market share of +75% on any digital distribution, in Europe this share exceeds 80%. The revenue forecast for 2023 is $56 billion. For a developer, it seems difficult to do without the monopoly exercised by this company. An even less defensible monopoly while the company helps to destroy physical supports and at the same time the second-hand market. Who else has a catalog of more than 50,000 titles? The only competition comes from the publishers themselves and it is lean EA, UBI, … I think it is time to set up a regulation to avoid this monopolistic situation.

The game market is a bit like the music market, if you want to support an artist or a devloper, buy directly from his home site and do not go through a platform.

No one wants to see a beloved game ruined by cheaters. My purpose is not about anti-cheat. It is about the games leader on the market, those with +100 millions players.

Yes if you got the knowledge and a recent PC with the right GPU, you can install vulkan and run few games faster. The gain should be around 17%. That’s not for the mass market.

You don’t, maybe. LOL and Fortnite represent 365 million players. That’s the main market. The steam deck is for steam only. You don’t like DRM-free games? Or use a retro gaming portal to launch roms ? Do you prefer to deal with a single company that decides when and which game has to be removed?

I chose the ASUS because the performance was the same, it heats up less so the fan is less active and I can also use it daily as a desktop with a dock.

You can’t even play the top 5 games on Linux due to the anti cheat.

I’m far to be a pro Microsoft but Windows is more versatile to run games. Asus understood it. If you want to play with steam, xbox, gog or indie games. It’s far more flexible than linux even if some huge progress were done.

And ban your speaker MAC if you use it to playback with the same account

Take a look at Tuta

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Right

Interesting but so ugly

Digging hole. Problem solved.

Nano is great cause there is no fee

Nope. I don’t have any and most of them are FOSS

You have to do it one by one for each app. Good luck if you have 300 apps.

I read it recently here and yes it’s pretty old effectively. Since they done HarmonyOS NEXT apparently three times more efficient than Linux. It will not be compatble with APK.

The source is there : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android/ It’s explained also there https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS into the section Criticism

It’s android based. They’ve tried to suppress all pieces mentioning it and they don’t wanna speak about when the subject is mentioned.

Is dead, already.

It’s been more than a year since every decision Microsoft has made has gone against the consumer. What is the target ? Sinking the company ?