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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The thing that confuses me is that Microsoft is no stranger to Linux. They use it in their data centers. It's plainly obvious if you know what other offerings are doing.

Their entire front end stack for azure virtual machines is OpenStack. Some years back they integrated with OpenStack to allow it to manage hyper-v, but OpenStack can also natively manage KVM hypervisors, as it was originally designed to do, and also VMware.

Hell, I'd be surprised if there isn't a Microsoft distro of Linux floating around (not available to the public... Not yet at least).

The people who seem to be pushing Microsoft, more than anyone, are game studios. Their garbage Anti cheat rootkits work best on Windows. So use Windows so they can low jack your PC.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux is a thing, yes. Public and fully open source.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Well, would you look at that...

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Microsoft is moving away from allowing anything to run with those low level permissions after that CrowdStrike incident where rogue security software bricked millions of Windows PCs, so that might take out kernel anticheat as collateral damage.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

While I'd love to see this, they also walked that back following lobbying by Antivirus vendors. So shit will continue to roll