Rosenzweig, known for her Panfrost and Apple M1/M2 GPU driver work is now contracted by Valve to work on graphics driver development! Sounds like great news for Valve’s push for Linux gaming.

  •  AlternativeEmphasis   ( @AlternativeEmphasis@kbin.social ) 
    8•1 year ago

    There can only be benefits to wider Linux acceptance in gaming, as it stands it’s shocking that it isn’t already there. Linux imo will never be window’s equal in distribution, too many people use windows compared to the various distros. But more people seem to use Linux now than before so there’s an untapped market here.

    •  sab   ( @sab@kbin.social ) 
      9•1 year ago

      I think the days of the Windows monopoly are already gone - in my (academic) circles at least, I see more OS X/Mac than Windows users.

      The OS X dominance is probably less sustainable than the Windows monopoly was, as it depends on one (already abusive) company for both hardware and software. In addition, mobile devices are increasingly taking over, shaking up the entire industry.

      To me at least, it seems to be turbulent times where there is absolutely room for changes to happen. Not saying it’s going up be the year of the Linux desktop though, that one is getting a bit old.

      •  TheTrueLinuxDev   ( @TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org ) 
        1•1 year ago

        I would say it would a Year of Linux Desktop when all of the other OS have enshittificated itself into a useless platform. That the same idea where people keep jumping from one corporate platform to the next until they finally stop doing that and jump to open source alternative similar to how Digg leads to Reddit and Reddit leads to Lemmy/Beehaw for a lot of us.