#HotTake / #speculation:

#Valve is using the #SteamDeck and #SteamMachine to force a tighter baseline on #gaming #computer #hardware and #Linux support. Whatever they produce, pretty much every #VideoGame company has to make their games run passably on it, meaning it has to be optimized enough to run on whatever #GPU they might be shipping in whatever #RAM / #VRAM constraints the system has, and it has to be stable in #Proton.

It's the console that #Steam itself is selling, they don't want people asking "why doesn't this run on standard hardware? Will it not run on my hardware either?"

I think this will be good for the #software market in general, as we've seen massive slippage in basic optimization for very little actual gain.

#ComputerScience #ComputerIndustry

At least @frameworkcomputer / @framework / #Framework has some positive #impact on the #ComputerIndustry:

• #Dell's #Alienware brand did change the "#Area51" #prebuild to use more standard #COTS parts and even include #QRcode|s linking people to parts-specific #HowTo guides...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Tcz3mAUuE&t=77

I propose:

Satya Nadella is not, and never has been capable as a Leader of MicroSoft.

"Well, he's Better Than Steve Balmer." Isn't a Business Leadership Metric.

... Ok it's perhaps a metric, but it's where you Start (Menu) the interview, not end it.

Satya needs to step down, or The Board needs to Adult for Five Fucking Minutes of their oh so busy lives, And Replace Him.

He fucks off, pops his Golden Parachute, everyone's happy.

#MicroSoft #Business #ComputerIndustry #MicroSoftHistory (...)