I use linux at work and will certainly dual boot with steam OS when it gets further down the road, whilst I would like to do away with windows completely I can't see it happening in the near future but 10 years down the line who knows.
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Well speaking as someone that uses oss 99.9% of the time I can say that drivers will be key, Yes am looking at you AMD.
Take dying light for example , On a 290x it fails to be playable @ 1024x768 on low with *nix
Ok, you could say that's down to dev too, but there's the problem!
The other thing is to not allow GPU vendor specific extensions which is what's happened with opengl. This causes problems on other GPU vendors. , Yes am looking at you Nvidia.
I see no reason why the new API could not prevail over DX if the specs/implementation are adhered to across the board. As this would also make it easier for the devs to go cross platform and expand their customer base, which would mean ££££.
End of the day it should be down to choice, you shouldn't need to be restricted to a given OS/platform in this day and age.
Take dying light for example , On a 290x it fails to be playable @ 1024x768 on low with *nix
Ok, you could say that's down to dev too, but there's the problem!The other thing is to not allow GPU vendor specific extensions which is what's happened with opengl. This causes problems on other GPU vendors. , Yes am looking at you Nvidia.
I see no reason why the new API could not prevail over DX if the specs/implementation are adhered to across the board. As this would also make it easier for the devs to go cross platform and expand their customer base, which would mean ££££.
End of the day it should be down to choice, you shouldn't need to be restricted to a given OS/platform in this day and age.
I use Linux extensively for other uses but it is a long long way from ever replacing Windows on my desktop.
Even the best Linux desktop I've used so far still has a lot of mix and match and clunkiness compared to windows and sooner or later I find myself having to pull up a terminal window.
Even the best Linux desktop I've used so far still has a lot of mix and match and clunkiness compared to windows and sooner or later I find myself having to pull up a terminal window.
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Nice thread, I use Windows and open os. Atm I have Linux Ubuntu running.. Would easy put or build a SteamOS system.
I use Linux (RHEL) a lot for work, yet at home it's primarily Windows. I do have a couple of linux VMs i can power up if needed. I think i've generally just stuck with Windows at home because it just works well - and i get the O/S's free. It would probably be a different case if i had to pay for the O/S. Perhaps one day i'll make a full swap.
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A few years ago I was told that Ubuntu was the most user friendly distro of Linux so I gave it a go. It installed easy enough but trying to install addtional applications or go forbid update your graphics drivers was like having your teeth extracted with out a painkiller. Never again.
Yeah i understand this, like a lot of things OpenSource it can be fickle.
Ubuntu and its Windows 7 like brother Kubuntu in their original form have improved in recent years, GPU Driver instillation is now as simple as it is in Windows.
The other problem they had was application instillation, again because its OpenSource applications even when stated as for Ubuntu often needed you to compile before installing.
OpenSource doesn't have the Driver and Application certification that Microsoft has, thats the whole point, the down side is stuff thats sometimes not stable or just an allround pain.
Again Ubuntu gets around that now by having a Desktop Application Market Place interface, everything in it is approved by Ubuntu and one click install in the interface.
Its actually quite a good thing in its self.
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Vulkan hasn't really swayed my decision on using Linux at all.
If Vulkan is also available on Windows then Windows seems like the best of both (DX12 and Vulkan).
I tried SteamOS and really wasn't impressed, don't see why Vulkan would change this.
Before I'd consider changing to Linux it would need to support a lot of my games backlog as I wouldn't want to give this up. I could dual boot with Windows to keep access to this, but why not just use Windows for everything?
If Vulkan is also available on Windows then Windows seems like the best of both (DX12 and Vulkan).
I tried SteamOS and really wasn't impressed, don't see why Vulkan would change this.
Before I'd consider changing to Linux it would need to support a lot of my games backlog as I wouldn't want to give this up. I could dual boot with Windows to keep access to this, but why not just use Windows for everything?
The issue I have is that I am a bit past the point of dual booting these days. I used to do it with 98/XP and a couple of years ago with OSX/Windows 7. However with the recent one I found that I spent a lot of time booting into Windows to game, so rather than boot back into OSX for office/web/media why not just use Windows. It's almost impossible that SteamOS will be anywhere near as good as Windows for that, so unless it's performance is noticeably quicker (which it can't be as it's using an API available on Windows) I think I'll just stick with Windows. I am still looking forward to OpenGL Vulkan though as I have always preferred OGL to D3D.