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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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402 points _JamesA_ | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mrcsharp ◴[25 Jun 25 23:25 UTC] No.44382744[source]▶
On the one hand I hope with the proliferation of such articles and sentiment that Microsoft would start paying more positive attention to Windows as an Operating System instead of an AI and Advertisement Machine.

But then I remember that it's Nutella at the helm over there and he'll gladly give up ground to focus more on hype and share price.

What a waste.

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bbkane ◴[26 Jun 25 03:35 UTC] No.44383969[source]▶
Microsoft's loss is gamers' gain in this area I think.

Besides, MSFT is almost $500, so they're doing something right.

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mrcsharp ◴[26 Jun 25 04:53 UTC] No.44384283{3}[source]▶
> Microsoft's loss is gamers' gain in this area I think.

Care to expand on this? Or did you just want to make a random statement?

> Besides, MSFT is almost $500, so they're doing something right

This very reductive way of thinking is exactly why everything is getting enshitified to the max.

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1. bbkane ◴[26 Jun 25 13:20 UTC] No.44387151{4}[source]▶
By Microsoft's loss and gamers' gain I mean that Linux used to be nonviable to play games, but Valve put a lot of effort into making games work on Linux (and continues to do so). They saw (and maybe still see?) Microsoft as a threat to Valve's future.

So now gamers have gained another platform to play games!

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2. mrcsharp ◴[26 Jun 25 23:41 UTC] No.44392536[source]▶
> but Valve put a lot of effort into making games work on Linux

Yes! this is competition at its finest, right? It is also what I was talking about in my original comment.

> So now gamers have gained another platform to play games!

Yup, this is definitely a good thing. Yes gamers get another platform and hopefully gets MS to focus on Windows to make it better and less hostile to users.

Gamers are also quite vicious and they will tarnish the reputation of anything that doesn't work well for them. Let's see how Linux will fare in their hands.