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@lunduke when Gnu/Linux based operating systems become more profitable for companies(i.e. bigger gaming market share), would companies consider open source driver development, or would the majority still stick to closed source drivers?
@lunduke Is there a resource listing apples-to-apples decentralized alternatives to popular social media and internet services?
Do you think Microsoft will give up on Windows, because web services is where thet get their money, and Windows is mostly a cost.
I think they will and even more, release their own Linux distro for terminal laptops (like Chromebook) that are integrated with Azure, 365 etc.
@lunduke your os questionnaire got me thinking. Amigas were so good in the 90s that a whole scifi TV series could be made on them for next to nothing (insert Babylon 5 logo here) Nowadays with open source and zero cost software, are there any current TV shows made on the likes of blender and what not.
Amiga fanboy - Andy Mac
What would it take for game developers to open source there game engine and/or game like how the linux gamer gamer describes in his source engine 2 video?
@lunduke I recently wiped my laptop and reinstalled my distro of choice. I explicitly removed all desktop apps and added my distro's flatpak backends instead... then installed my apps from flathub (via the GNOME software center). I've found a great balance - apps from the devs in a distro-agnostic way, and a smaller OS.
Should this be a thing? How long until a major distro provider stops shipping apps, and just relies on a layer like flatpak to differentiate where the OS ends?
@lunduke In your (unfinished) best operating system ever series, you touched on yhe subject that older Linux distros run into the issue of their software repos going down.
It's kind of a bummer that this is true.
Are there any good solutions to this? Can i install an old Ubuntu version and point apt to get archived packages from somewhere else.
I ask not because i want to do this kind of thing, but because I care about longevity of a platform.
@lunduke
Have you used the new valve index? Is it worth the investment as a Linux gamer?