SteamOS is spreading beyond Valve's hardware. That could threaten Microsoft's hold on PC gaming...or even Windows' hold on the PC market.
  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Yeah I mean especially for professionals, most hardware requires special software for it to function properly and they don’t bother making it available for Linux.

    • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      especially for professionals, most hardware requires special software for it to function properly and they don’t bother making it available for Linux.

      That’s entirely use case specific. CUDA is actually used more on Linux than on Windows (I don’t have data, but even Azure by Microsoft runs on Linux…) so for e.g. NVIDIA hardware for professionals the support is better there.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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        5 months ago

        It’s not. But I wasn’t referring to GPUs anyway, I was referring to peripherals. Audio equipment, drawing pads, cameras, etc.