Comment by Gud

1 day ago

No it makes no sense at all. I do my gaming on Arch.

Windows sucks and I hope to see the demise of Microsoft during my lifetime(crosses fingers).

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stunseed  1 day ago

Most of their revenue is tied to other stuff though

1. Productivity / Business (~43%)

Includes:

Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams) - these can be likely ported to Linux if they're not already since they also work on MacOS? LinkedIn Dynamics (ERP/CRM)

~$120.8B

2. Cloud (~38%)

Includes:

Azure (runs on mostly linux, and moving cloud provider as a big corp is expensive, I don't see massive companies stuck in azure infra moving from it) Server products (Windows Server, SQL Server, etc.)

~$106.3B

I fully support the demise of Windows as an OS

But microsoft as a company has shifted away from Windows as their source of revenue, and will probably not be impacted too badly if it were to die completely.

  • ano-ther  1 day ago

    The French move will hit the Productivity/ Business segment. Their motivation is to limit extra-European dependence so they will look elsewhere for this.

    Similar to Germany with its DeutschlandStack and some migrations already ongoing.

  • ImJamal  1 day ago

    > Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams) - these can be likely ported to Linux if they're not already since they also work on MacOS?

    I thought the Mac versions were not a full fledged port and were missing features present in Windows.

knollimar  1 day ago

I was under the impression anticheat is the only thing stopping linux gaming from taking over

  • lionkor  1 day ago

    Anticheat and support for joysticks, steering wheels, VR, etc. is one factor for sure. I would say almost all games people play, which dont fall in the above categories, run out of the box with no or very minor tweaks needed (no terminal).