When look back 21 years , the windows and their apps were compared to open source alternatives way better with delivering quality .
Laptops didn’t really existed without Windows either , Linux drivers for GPU’s wasn’t best either and games were pretty much running in Wine only , only very few games opened on Linux .
Since then lots changed , consoles graphics and affordability of consoles , faster broadbands , more and more good quality games arrived , GPU hardware especially around mining boom become priced overly then carry on with local LLM .
But when I look nowdays around , the portable consoles is what makes most of sense as their performance and also sizes makes it suitable for travel , outside .
Smartphones are also great but doesn’t have joystick , or button which makes it a bit less appealing.
Seeing move of laptop companies want to have Linux as default , will we ever see this on consoles or phones ?
How is nowdays support for GPU on Linux ? ( I primarily use Mac so can’t really find out )
Is there some store’s for Linux distributions comparable to App Store / Microsoft Store where apps/games can be promoted ?
Well, you kinda answered it yourself. Gpu Drivers in linux can get tricky and everything depends on a lot of things (hardware, distro…), but the steam deck (a portable console) is a great success case.
It runs arch linux under the hood and features the best store there is for gaming right now: steam itself.
Steam deck aside, linux usage has gotten easier over the years, there are distros specifically tailored to be stable and easy to use by begginers and gaming is becoming feasible thanks to proton. There is still work to do but I’d say the future looks bright on that front
As for stores, it’s easy to get accustomed to using the command line and it ends up being better than any store. However, there are stores that work fine (better than anything microsoft, which isn’t a lot to say). I don’t know much about them but I have used the one that ships with gnome in the past and my experience was fine.
I might be overly optimistic but I think this might a great time for open source software. As big companies have consistently enshitified their products with abusive subscription models, lack of transparency, loss of quality and the current situation with AI slop some open source projects have taken the lead. Godot itself is a great example of this
I think it’s realistic , because Microsoft and Apple did some shifts in design which not many people likes but it feels like they do it for sake of someone made that decision .
Subscription is nearly everywhere if is not space , then is some cloud computing , then some licence renewing to keep your latest version etc( those two Giants definitely try keep squeeze every user into some of it )
Biggest shift would be if more IT in companies shift to open sourced platforms and maintain them instead repaying Microsoft protections fees .
One thing related to Godot itself( at least I haven’t hear many of ) is there not that many studios which proudly saying they using it instead of Unreal or Unity , is it because of contracts , skills , scalability or industry “standards “ ? .
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