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.

Take a look at Tuta

Right

Interesting but so ugly

This app was amazing and the concept was interesting but as it was anonymous with a huge amount of storage it wasn’t viable.

It is raining ads !!!

They said they will not change the business model. Can we trust them ?

I see at leat one limitation, Adobe action scripts are not supported.

Anything for win 11 ?

A quick reminder : you don’t need to watch Netflix.

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Interesting site. That’s what I did mention by top 3: LoL, Fortnite, or Valorant are not supported due to anticheat. Those are the most played games.

Everybody preefer 10 for sure. They don’t follow what people wants

Yes and daw

Lol try to run the top 3 games and tell me.