| Kerotan said: So Microsoft have steam cornered? |
No, the market has. And the decision to go with Linux is complicated, too. The situation to use top-notch hardware on Linux (if you don't use Intel hardware) is still a mess. Buggy drivers, new kernels breaking functionality with drivers, performance of the drivers, competing systems to just put a pixel on screen... There is a reason Linux never made it on desktops in a successful way (while I use it regularly and put Windows in a vm...) is because of Linux itself. And I don't see this is going to be changed by Valve. MS, as far as I know, not forcing anyone to use DirectX - you are free to use whatever you like. But DirectX itself also isn't bad in any way and DX12 will improve on a lot of things. Add to this that the potential userbase is just insanely big for your game if you release it on Windows and given that MS is going to give people Windows 10 basically for free, why would anyone choose Steam OS?
