• ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    They probably wouldn’t block but force companies (valve included) to pay a cut of the revenue by forcing people through the Microsoft store. See Windows S mode.

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      15 hours ago

      People would be mad, SteamOS and M$ itself are already giving people enough to ditch windows, doing such a thing would make it even worse. It’s just better to try and convince publishers to only focus on Windows

      • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day
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        4 hours ago

        People would be mad, SteamOS and M$ itself are already giving people enough to ditch windows

        Simply being mad at microsoft is not enough for them to ditch windows. The alternative must exist as well. Valve had to work hard to get to that level and become a threat to microsoft.

        If SteamOS wasn’t good enough, microsoft would just yawn at the haters while making insane amounts of money.

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        13 hours ago

        Well that was the whole point behind steam OS and proton. If valve did not work on those things then it was a much bigger possibility.