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Nettement meilleure que l'original.
Au delà du titre un peu clickbait, c'est toute la discussion avec Tim Besset qui est intéressante à propos du gaming sous Linux, de son boulot avec id Software ou du taf de Valve pour amener Linux à devenir une plateforme de jeux viable.
« For companies, for publishers and games studios, it’s smart to target Linux. It also helps you to target PlayStation, to target Switch. If you want to push your game on consoles, making sure you can run on Linux is probably a good idea. Especially now if you’re working with Vulkan. Vulkan is supported on the Switch, so you can go everywhere, you would target Windows, but you would try to be pretty quickly try to target Linux, because it’s an easy platform to work with compared to a console with a heavier development kit, that sort of thing. So I think there are a lot of good reasons for companies still to target Linux outside of commercial success. But the platform still needs to grow. »
« Game Studios really need to listen to some of their core engineers, when they’re telling management, when telling marketing that “we should really get a port of these going, because we want to have a foothold, we wanna keep an eye on portability”. I think it’s very important. »
« [Valve] are trying to go after these big companies with big titles, because there is more uncertainty into getting a port out, because bigger company means there is more red tape, there are bigger challenges, but the payoff, the impact on a platform is significant, much bigger. Valve is in this position where they can have an impact there, so that’s that’s what we’re trying to focus on. (...)
Valve will always make that point that they are behind SteamOS for the long term. It’s not gonna explode exponentially, but it’s a platform that they are going to be behind for years. »
« For companies, for publishers and games studios, it’s smart to target Linux. It also helps you to target PlayStation, to target Switch. If you want to push your game on consoles, making sure you can run on Linux is probably a good idea. Especially now if you’re working with Vulkan. Vulkan is supported on the Switch, so you can go everywhere, you would target Windows, but you would try to be pretty quickly try to target Linux, because it’s an easy platform to work with compared to a console with a heavier development kit, that sort of thing. So I think there are a lot of good reasons for companies still to target Linux outside of commercial success. But the platform still needs to grow. »
« Game Studios really need to listen to some of their core engineers, when they’re telling management, when telling marketing that “we should really get a port of these going, because we want to have a foothold, we wanna keep an eye on portability”. I think it’s very important. »
« [Valve] are trying to go after these big companies with big titles, because there is more uncertainty into getting a port out, because bigger company means there is more red tape, there are bigger challenges, but the payoff, the impact on a platform is significant, much bigger. Valve is in this position where they can have an impact there, so that’s that’s what we’re trying to focus on. (...)
Valve will always make that point that they are behind SteamOS for the long term. It’s not gonna explode exponentially, but it’s a platform that they are going to be behind for years. »
« Savez-vous que, lorsque vous écoutez le dernier album de votre chanteur underground préféré sur Deezer, l’argent de votre abonnement va dans les poches de Jul et d’Ed Sheeran ? Si, si. »
Une des raisons pour lesquelles je préfère *acheter* les albums (Bandcamp, Qobuz, Boomkat, etc) et les streamer depuis un truc comme Libresonic plutôt que de payer un abo Spotify.
Une des raisons pour lesquelles je préfère *acheter* les albums (Bandcamp, Qobuz, Boomkat, etc) et les streamer depuis un truc comme Libresonic plutôt que de payer un abo Spotify.
Discussion (avec spoilers) autour du puzzle game b̶r̶é̶s̶i̶l̶i̶e̶n̶ Papo & Yo qui prend place dans une favela où on joue le rôle d'un gamin accompagné d'un monstre accro à des grenouilles venimeuses (allégorie d'un père alcoolique). Très court et peut-être un peu trop facile mais super jeu.
EDIT : J'étais persuadé que le jeu était brésilien, mais en fait non. Le studio est québécois, le créateur Colombien et le compositeur Trinidadien...
EDIT : J'étais persuadé que le jeu était brésilien, mais en fait non. Le studio est québécois, le créateur Colombien et le compositeur Trinidadien...
À noter aussi à propos de la baisse des parts de marché de Linux sur Steam qu'il y a 64% des utilisateurs Steam qui ont leur client configuré en chinois. Et je suppose que ça ne doit pas étranger au succès de PUBG (Windows only) en Chine (ou peut-être tout simplement à l'arrivée des gamers Chinois sur Steam). Une arrivée massive de joueurs Windows faisant forcément baisser le %age d'utilisateurs Linux et Mac sans pour autant qu'il y ait une baisse du nbre d'utilisateurs sur ces plateformes.
Un article de 2013 sur les ventes Linux et Mac de Defender's Quest.
La méthodologie de Steam pour calculer les ventes par plateforme y est aussi. Et à ce sujet une précision qui me parait importante :
« if people buy the Windows version and play it through WINE, it doesn't matter if the game is later ported to Linux - unless the customers play it for longer than they've played it up to that point....it won't count as a [Linux] sale! » (https://steamcommunity.com/app/210970/discussions/0/458607518208906035/?ctp=4#c371918937280269507)
#noTuxNoBux
La méthodologie de Steam pour calculer les ventes par plateforme y est aussi. Et à ce sujet une précision qui me parait importante :
« if people buy the Windows version and play it through WINE, it doesn't matter if the game is later ported to Linux - unless the customers play it for longer than they've played it up to that point....it won't count as a [Linux] sale! » (https://steamcommunity.com/app/210970/discussions/0/458607518208906035/?ctp=4#c371918937280269507)
#noTuxNoBux
« There are now almost five million self-employed people in the UK. (...) It accounts for 15% of all employment, the highest ever recorded. This is marvellous for the government because they can claim that unemployment is going down »
« The loneliness of self-employment is consistent with current free market ideologies of individualism and isolating workers from each other. When everyone is freelance it is much harder for workers to act collectively, demand higher pay from their clients, even take over the means of production, or achieve better security from government. »
« The loneliness of self-employment is consistent with current free market ideologies of individualism and isolating workers from each other. When everyone is freelance it is much harder for workers to act collectively, demand higher pay from their clients, even take over the means of production, or achieve better security from government. »
EDIT : « Le gouvernement allemand a suspendu la modernisation des ses chars dans les inventaires de l'armée turque, à cause de leur utilisation contre les civils kurdes. » (https://twitter.com/info_Rojava/status/956507001185546240)