Comment Re:First post, what about Linux (Score 1) 147
Steam is already on its way to Linux, just the stubborn morons at Blizzard not wanting to port.
What happened?
You obviously haven't used the shitfest that is OS X to anything remotely more interesting than iPhoto.
I don't really see how it's remotely possible she "can't tell where the windows went".
There is a bug in Unity where the window sometimes disappear when minimizing.
Why did he get modded down when that is pretty much it in a nutshell?
Because every console manufacturer uses PowerPC you fucking idiot. It takes fuck all effort to research this, so why his moronic dribble, and your fantasticly idiotic post got modded above -1 "God Damn Moron" is beyond my comprehension. Whenever I see one of your posts, I just automatically assume it's full of stupid bullshit. You are the worst two-faced Microsoftfanboy to ever pollute the waters of the internet, I sure as shit hope your sorry ass didn''t reproduce.
Oh yeah? Wake me up once they get around to releasing Episode 3. So far I have surpassed Valve's ep3 revenue by about infinity percent.
This has nothing to do with the original argument. It went from "they're not gonna make money off Linux" to "Boo hoo they haven't released EP3 yet". You are aware that they have other games?
I don't get it, NVIDIA release proprietary software on Linux and the community react like someone shit on their living room carpet, but when Valve do it, it's great news?
I think the Free Software purists won't be happy about Steam in any way shape or form. And the community is made up of a lot of different opinions and you'll see that people have varied opinions about Steam. However, they have certain redeeming factors: They have been hiring people for fixing not only bugs in AMDs and nVidias driver, but also in the kernel and in OpenGL. They are actually contributing more than nVidia already.
I'd also like to point out that there's a difference between a userspace program, and a driver that's needed to make your computer run as good as it possibly can. nVidias driver has been better than a lot of others, but it's been problematic to get them to follow stuff like for instance KMS, or get them to release drivers for their Optimus technology. They are appearantly horrendously bad at communicating with Linux vendors and open source guys, and Valve is already better than them in that department.
On that note, I think it would be good to say goodbyes to Windows Vista too. Windows 7 and 8 are truly better and the only OS we currently need, on top of Mac OS X. That trio is something beautiful and hard for anyone to break.
Yes, let's all celebrate a duopoly of walled gardens. That'll be grand.
This makes the whole kernel basically monolithic (i.e. like the modern Windows and Linux kernels), which is kind of unexpected!
It's not unexpected for anyone who has been paying even remotely attention to operating system development. Let me quote Linus from a G+ post on Greg Kroah-Hartmans feed:
yes, it's based on Mach, but it's based on the older Mach 2 architecture which really wasn't a microkernel. It's parts of FreeBSD bolted on top of a research kernel that was meant to become a microkernel, but never really did.
And the result really is nasty. Page fault and VM latencies are horrible (why do I know? We hit huge performance problems while doing the MacOS port of git), the filesystem choices they've done show a level of incompetence that is stunning, yadda yadda.
But hey, it's pretty on top. If the Apple engineers actually knew what they were doing, they could use a known superior open-source kernel and put their pretty on top of that instead. Then they wouldn't have to do kernel programming, and could leave it to the people who actually like doing it and know what they are doing.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
