Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to embrace Linux

Re:Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to ... by NoPiece on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @08:15PM (#4293723)

I use a Mac as my main computer, but keep a PC just for games. I would love to use Linux on it and not have to pay for Windows. Is there another category of software that is as exclusive to windows as games? I can get everything else I need via web apps or OSX.

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Re:Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to ... by MartinCron on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:01PM (#4294028)

There are a lot of windows-only apps in the business world.

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Re:Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to ... by d5tryr on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:17PM (#4294069)

There are also a lot of apple-only apps in the business world.

And how many business apps are being built for windows right now, compared to the number that are being built of iOS and osX right now?

I guess that the latter has much more activity...

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Re:Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to ... by MartinCron on Thursday July 26, 2012 @12:28AM (#4294404)

I think the latter has a lot more visibility, at least.

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Re:Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to ... by NoPiece on Thursday July 26, 2012 @01:02AM (#4294495)

I'm sure there are a lot of custom and legacy business apps out there tied to windows. But thinking of broad categories of business software (Office/productivity, browser, IDE, graphics editing, accounting, contact management), there are lots of alternatives that will run on a non-Windows PC. But looking at games as a category, you don't have comparable options on Mac or Linux.

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