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Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’
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Funny with ARM finally starting to rise beyond just mobile devices, accurate but very earlyIt's already serious business in laptops and desktops. Just exclusively for Apple's awful little incompatible fiefdom.
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Microsoft: we've given up on consoles. But don't tell our investors thatI think that’s plain to see by now, even for the investors. They still hold on to saying they’re going to release 10th gen hardware but that could be a PC by then. There are upsides to this for gamers potentially though as I doubt they’ll leave legacy Xbox games stranded and more people will get access to them.
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You know that I use Linux too and I know being able to run anything is just bs?Your not technical savy I guess. It can run anything with some tinkering. You can use steamdb to see what games need to install with proton or ask the developer of indie games what library they use on windows. And there is solutions for everything. I never meet a game wi can't run (except when EA sabotaged their launcher to stop linux users)
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Your not technical savy I guess. It can run anything with some tinkering. You can use steamdb to see what games need to install with proton or ask the developer of indie games what library they use on windows. And there is solutions for everything. I never meet a game wi can't run (except when EA sabotaged their launcher to stop linux users)I appreciate your perseverance in the face of sourced facts.
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I appreciate your perseverance in the face of sourced facts.
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I sée no source I give no source, why should o be the one doing the search to answer a windows troll ?Well, Valve fanboys don’t seem to be concerned with factuality so that might work for you. Hopefully normal people see this for what it is.
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Well, Valve fanboys don’t seem to be concerned with factuality so that might work for you. Hopefully normal people see this for what it is.
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Let me paint a picture here. My main computer is a MacBook Air M1, running Mac OS. My HTPC is an old Steam Machine, Asus GR6. It runs Ubuntu. I play current gen games on Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2. My only Windows machine is an old ThinkPad that I use to flash settings to my car. I also own plethora of vintage portable consoles and some FPGA for retro stuff. But I commited blasphemy against Valve, and therefore I’m a Windows troll. Lol, grow up.
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Let me paint a picture here. My main computer is a MacBook Air M1, running Mac OS. My HTPC is an old Steam Machine, Asus GR6. It runs Ubuntu. I play current gen games on Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2. My only Windows machine is an old ThinkPad that I use to flash settings to my car. I also own plethora of vintage portable consoles and some FPGA for retro stuff. But I commited blasphemy against Valve, and therefore I’m a Windows troll. Lol, grow up.Lol valve. Don't care about it. I mostly don't use steam, except for multi players games when network is really needed. I pirate everything and pay for games once I knew they are good. I got triggered by your comments about linux not being ready for gaming. It beat the switch easily, it beat the Xbox easily. Don't try to make yourself a victim. You shit on a full ecosystem without knowing and then cry when people telling you on it.
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Broadly speaking, what are Xbox looking to do here? They optimise Windows for gaming and open up the console for other storefronts, then is it just a Steam device? They won't make money from Steam sales. Is this a cloud streaming device? Can you cloud stream games from other storefronts?
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Lol valve. Don't care about it. I mostly don't use steam, except for multi players games when network is really needed. I pirate everything and pay for games once I knew they are good. I got triggered by your comments about linux not being ready for gaming. It beat the switch easily, it beat the Xbox easily. Don't try to make yourself a victim. You shit on a full ecosystem without knowing and then cry when people telling you on it.Have you considered addressing the fact that ProtonDB lists about 40% of Windows games as incompatible?
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Have you considered addressing the fact that ProtonDB lists about 40% of Windows games as incompatible?Yeah they probably do, most people just change proton version and quit after trying some common options. It is pretty unhelpful for non mainstream games. You have to look more into wine to set the DLL, tools or dependency which are missing. For exemple most launcher just need the winhttp component and work well. But it is nearly never suggested. Some need to explicitly add a DLL and it's version but same, it is nearly never mentioned.
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No one: Says Nadella summer 2026: Introducing Microsoft Surface Xbox With Microsoft Co-Pilot laptop and Microsoft Surface Xbox With Microsoft Co-pilot+ X.
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Yeah they probably do, most people just change proton version and quit after trying some common options. It is pretty unhelpful for non mainstream games. You have to look more into wine to set the DLL, tools or dependency which are missing. For exemple most launcher just need the winhttp component and work well. But it is nearly never suggested. Some need to explicitly add a DLL and it's version but same, it is nearly never mentioned.Who are you trying to bs saying Wine will solve the issues? Wine app DB is a public thing, Winetricks use is assumed for most entries. I’m done, bye.
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Who are you trying to bs saying Wine will solve the issues? Wine app DB is a public thing, Winetricks use is assumed for most entries. I’m done, bye.I ma not telling it solved anything but you have to do research and learn how to use it, you missed the part I told that you have to tweak for some games. And I don't speak specifically about wine, there are proton ge or wine ge which are options too depending of the situation you have to use vanilla wine, proton, wine ge or protonge and have to change version, it is not user friendly but it work. I play on linux since years, and it may be 2-3 year since I wasn't able to run a game. For more user friendly you have lutris games installer which work pretty well.
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It's already serious business in laptops and desktops. Just exclusively for Apple's awful little incompatible fiefdom.Yeah, it's just Apple actually pushing it forward and Microsoft sorta half assing it lol.
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Yeah, it's just Apple actually pushing it forward and Microsoft sorta half assing it lol.Microsoft does not make processors.
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Microsoft does not make processors.I obviously mean with software support, though also https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-gpu-ai-chips-azure-maia-cobalt-specifications-cloud-infrastructure
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Microsoft is likely to develop a stripped down version of Windows for those handhelds. Windows isn’t fundamentally incapable of low overhead and Xbox runs something similar. As to why you’d want to use Windows even if you’re tech savvy there are loads of reasons: * Native access to other digital storefronts (Valve wants to lock you with Steam Deck) * Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and long term support seriously, unlike Valve that has a history of abandoning things when they no longer found them immediately profitable * There are plenty of games with kernel-level anti-cheat that won’t work with Wine/Proton ever * Wine/Proton compatibility isn’t good enough to replace Windows * Valve pushes Proton so heavily that developers stopped creating native Linux ports so the above is unlikely to change anytime soon But there are also good reasons to go with SD like very very good VRR screen utilisation (Xbox is also good at this so maybe there’s hope for Windows).
