jesus christ, you couldn't have written it in less words i guess? o.o
anyway, i mostly agree here but point 5 (at least compared to windows and in comparison to point 6) and 6 are odd. i for myself am using win 7 (main difference btw. 7 and 10 is, that microsoft extracts datas from ya. but there are programs to prevent that from happening). i ONLY use free software. i have free extractors, free music players, free manipulators and so on and so on. no god damn microsoft product. i just pay for my anti virus program, cause i'm often on dangerous websites. thanks to my programs i almost forgot how ads look like on the internet ^^. when i used a pc on the university i was shocked how much ad there actually is XD. the rest of point 6 is a bit too narrowminded and anticapitalistic (which is normally fine by me, but here it's a bit too much off the table).
it's nice, that you can actually play a lot of games via steam already (even though i fucking hate steam), but windows is still the gaming messiah, especially when you like to play japanese games or other small and foreign games from small firms. i still know the times where linux wasn't even able to do some serious shit and where you could only play games like that mario clone, where you run around as a penguin.
btw. nice that someone else plays europa universalis too.
On point 5, I suppose you could say that free (as in cost) software isn't unique to Linux, but free (as in open source) is much more a part of Linux than it is for Windows. You might get "free" (cost, or maybe shareware) software for Windows, but it's not nearly as often going to be open source, or for you to have such readily accessible tools for developing that software even when it is. The Windows ecosystem is just not setup for open source software. It's still focused around a closed source, profit motivated ecosystem. You kind of illustrate point 4 by saying you need a commercial antivirus program (which you don't really need on Linux.)
As for point 6, that's not about being anti-capitalist. If you want to pay for your system, then fine. Paid for programs generally come with more of an expectation for support, or may be more cutting edge due to developers being able to focus more time or more human resources on development due to the income they receive from selling the product.
The issue here isn't about a profit motive per se. It's about the fact that these companies are literally trying to lock you out of your computer in many ways, and try to coerce you into being trapped using their product and their product alone.
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And they want to do this so that they turn you into a more obedient consumer who can only use their products in the way they want you to. So you can't play your media on any device they don't approve of, or in any way they don't approve of, or can't run any operating system or software on your hardware that they don't approve of, etc.
Opposing that kind of loss of freedom to use your own computer as you see fit isn't about being opposed to capitalism. It's about caring about your rights to your own belongings to use them as you see fit once you've purchased them, and not keep losing more and more of that ability as these companies try to increasingly lock you out of your own hardware and lock you in to their products.
I've been running and working on Linux for over 20 years now. I'm well aware of how it's progressed over time, and where its weaknesses still are. (For example I run a Radeon GPU rather than an NVidia, so I've been plagued by crappier performance in some games due to issues with the proprietary drivers causing my machine to hard lock... seems potentially related to me running 3 screens, since I don't see most other people having such trouble with it. NVidia's proprietary drivers seem much better. But I have what I have, so I work with the open source drivers, which have been improving considerably in recent years.)
I do still have Windows 7 on here "for emergencies". I have a multi-boot system and will boot into Windows every few months to play one of those games I like that are only available on there. I just don't plan on "upgrading" to 10, so as 7 fades out, I'll just let it go.
In the end I chose freedom over the increasingly locked down and dumbed down Windows direction, and I don't (and have never and likely will never) own an Apple product.
Your choice.
Some people don't want or need the kind of freedom I do.
Does anyone have any indication as to what engine is actually being used for this? Is it a custom one or an engine that is available?
GameMaker Studio from
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Great. This means that
@GDS could actually export the build to support Ubuntu Linux as well right out of the box.
"Using a single development workflow GameMaker Studio 2 allows you export your game directly to Windows desktop, Mac OS X,
Ubuntu, Android, iOS, fireTV, Android TV, Microsoft UWP, HTML5, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One."