>What a ridiculous thing to say. [...] This number is significantly higher than a few years ago.
Significantly higher yes...off a low base. We're talking 1..2..3...maybe a (naive)5 percent of progress on total market share over literally decades in the desktop market. Compare that to the androids absolutely crushing the entire mobile market in a few short years. So yes in the bigger scheme of things "nix hasn't really moved an inch on the desktop front".
>And by your statement you reduce the whole range of possible computer uses to gaming.
You're kidding, right? I focused on gaming, because we are discussing a post about Valve. The effects will extend to every corner of GUI driven nix given that nvidia has already made real world changes based purely on this announcement. The nix world can fight another 10 years of a losing war against an unmotivated nvidia & linux or they can grab something like this by the balls.
Compare that to the androids absolutely crushing the entire mobile market
Why would I compare totally different things? When Android came by, there was no monopoly in the mobile OS market. Every vendor had its own. Also, there are much less legacy applications than on desktops. And mobile OS is substantially easier to catch up with. Prior to smartphone era users had no trouble switching between phone vendors (and subsequently the OSes). Switching to a new a desktop OS is way more difficult step.
Better compare it to OS X. Same decades in the market, and still only ~15% share. Yes, more than GNU, but they do their own hardware, and OS is by far not their main selling point.
I focused on gaming, because we are discussing a post about Valve
Sorry, I shouldn't have jumped on you so quickly. Yes, GNU/Linux seriously lacks in a few more areas besides gaming (namely, professional media editing). But it is still a far stretch to say Linux isn't advancing on the desktops. Jeez, 10 years ago we didn't have a decent office suite.
Anyway, what makes you so concerned about Nvidia motivation? My integrated Intel video does an excellent job drawing whatever 2D I throw at it. And it even can do 3D well enough to play some 5yo games (if you consider TF2 one of those).
Significantly higher yes...off a low base. We're talking 1..2..3...maybe a (naive)5 percent of progress on total market share over literally decades in the desktop market. Compare that to the androids absolutely crushing the entire mobile market in a few short years. So yes in the bigger scheme of things "nix hasn't really moved an inch on the desktop front".
>And by your statement you reduce the whole range of possible computer uses to gaming.
You're kidding, right? I focused on gaming, because we are discussing a post about Valve. The effects will extend to every corner of GUI driven nix given that nvidia has already made real world changes based purely on this announcement. The nix world can fight another 10 years of a losing war against an unmotivated nvidia & linux or they can grab something like this by the balls.
>gamez
Really?