> Unfortunately for Linux, the recent ram price increases are reason not to move (if thinking about a new pc).
Can you elaborate on why high RAM prices mean Linux is less attractive? Do you believe a usable Linux environment uses more RAM than a usable Windows 11 environment?
Orange Box 2. Then in another few decades we'd get Orange Box: Alyx.
A killer app is a great way to sell a "console". Windows port can come later.
Doubt it, considering Deadlock still only has Windows builds a year into alpha.
https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/depots/
Deadlock is an F2P live service game with a (very) Early Access release & development model.
Entirely different situation than bundling a finished HL3 + Steam Machine to achieve big sales.
this would be basically what they did with steam
Unfortunately for Linux, the recent ram price increases are reason not to move (if thinking about a new pc).
> Unfortunately for Linux, the recent ram price increases are reason not to move (if thinking about a new pc).
Can you elaborate on why high RAM prices mean Linux is less attractive? Do you believe a usable Linux environment uses more RAM than a usable Windows 11 environment?
They are assuming you’d build a new machine for Linux, I think.
OTOH Windows 10 support ran out recently so I guess there are a lot of unsupported Windows machines that could be perfectly fine as Linux refurbs.
Why would you need a new PC to swap operating systems?