![]() Apparently he didn't talk to his closest partner, Intel, which is now the No. Incidentally, these same vendors make up a significant ecosystem around Linux, the very same ecosystem that Ballmer suggests won't form due to a lack of incentives. Nor has it worked for the leading hardware and software vendors that depend on Linux, e.g., IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc. Microsoft may have been able to get Novell to "put a price on Linux" through intellectual property scare tactics, but it hasn't worked for the market leaders, Red Hat and Canonical (Ubuntu). retailer The Gap, for example, just dumped Microsoft Windows for Red Hat Enterprise Linux because of its positive return-on-investment and superior flexibility. IDC is seeing a massive uptake in Linux adoption because (surprise, Mr Ballmer!) it's a highly cost-effective solution in bad economic times. He may not like that fact, but he can download Linux for free from a variety of sources. ![]() Unfortunately, he's zero for two in his at-bats with this interview, because his attempts to discredit Linux also fall flat. ![]() He also seems to have missed the fact that Apple's iPhone has doubled its market share in the past year even as Windows Mobile stalls.īallmer says, in other words, that Macs are about "high quality and low volume," but the market says "high quality and ever increasing volume." But then, Ballmer is usually wrong when he attempts to discredit Apple. Maybe he didn't get the memo that Windows-based PC shipments have been declining even as Mac shipments continue to rise, and that even his Pyhrric victory in Netbooks is costing Microsoft money. It's bad enough that Ballmer completely botches his math on Apple's strategy. You could say are you guys in the middle ground or are you where you want to be? And I say we're exactly where we want to be. So a model like ours, which is high volume and high value but low priced but not free. But they say "we have no price." The problem you have with these so-called free alternatives is there's also not the incentive to a lot of the hard work to build out the ecosystem to support the hardware vendors that is required. Well, along comes Linux, and they say, "we have no price," which of course, we know for IP and other reasons, of course they have a price. We say we want big market share, but with big market share you take the lower price. Apple's a great company, does a fine job, but their model says high margin, high quality, high price, that's kinda how they come to market. We do not, like Apple, believe in low volume, very high prices. I want to describe our value proposition. We've been competing with Linux for a number of years. In talking up Microsoft's deal with Yahoo, Ballmer couldn't restrain himself from talking about Apple or Linux: I really want to try to play IL-2 with VR and joystickĪre you talking about IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad? If so yeah, that one is Platinum rated on ProtonDB and should therefore work fine OOTB.Whenever Microsoft starts to look like a company that is ready to play fair with open source, along comes its CEO, Steve Ballmer, to ruin all the goodwill the rest of the company has created. But anyway, most VR games actually work in Proton last I heard. ![]() Half-Life: Alyx has native Linux support, but I guess it's only beta so it's not "officially" listed. You can check for more info on that, there are two models with full support if you use an experimental branch of OpenHMD, and most other Oculus headsets support everything but Positional Tracking. SOME Oculus headsets are starting to get full compatibility with OpenHMD, but most won't work. The Valve Index and the HTC Vive are the only two that have any real Linux support, as both were developed either fully or in part by Valve. To put everything into a specific example, I really want to try to play IL-2 with VR and joystick.Although ProtonDB has examples where the whole setup works fine, I'm honestly unsure if I want to make all these investments (two pieces of nice hardware AND a crazy expensive game) and not get any fun experience. Again, do I correctly understand that I will have to rely on roundabout ways to connect a headset AND to run a game? I've seen this video of getting an Oculus Quest 2 to run, but that's just sideloading apps through Linux onto it, right? Īlso, Steam doesn't show any VR-supported games as natively available for Linux. Hi guys, I'm considering buying a VR headset, but I haven't ever used one before, so I'm sorry if these are very noob questions.I would still appreciate your help nevertheless about the current status of VR on Linux now.ĭo I correctly understand that none of the big VR headsets support Linux out of the box? The only exception I've seen was the one by Valve, but that costs a fortune.
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