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Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (4 children)

Microsoft wants all future apps to go through their store. Basically like Apple does in Mac [ appears you can ]. I do believe this is the future for Windows apps. Once that happens, Valve running on Windows will be second fiddle. Valve's only choice is to migrate to another OS or end up like Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thought Mac store was required. Guess not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Holy misinformation Batman! You don’t have to use the App store for anything on MacOS. Matter of fact many popular apps are not found in the AppStore at all.

iPhone and iPad may be walled gardens but I’ll go out on a limb here and say that MacOS is actually more open than Windows or at the very least it’s as open.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Mac user here. I never use the App Store.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I recently thought I had to use it, dug up a 15 year old account, because some hardware utility for a mobile Brother printer was only available from the store. After installing the tool it turns out it didn't even have the function I needed (firmware update of the printer).

That was annoying. And merely having the account signed in also prevented our IT support department from copying my user folder over to the new laptop properly, so we had to do it twice.

Now I'm happily back to not having apple id signed in. (Well... as happy as I can be while still having to use macOS)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They'll never be able to force that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It would instantly break compatibility with >99% of windows software.

They are trying with Windows S but i don't think it has much of a market.