Could Microsoft destroy Linux gaming by using the windows store (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

50 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So as we know Windows Platform Apps and WinUI3 apps do not work on Linux, I keep wondering if Microsoft were to launch a new API let’s say direct X 15 but limit it to Windows Store Apps, and provided a way for the apps to be installed from other stores like steam could they in time kill modern Linux gaming.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago

They tried. It was called UWP, but it never caught on and Microsoft quickly realized nobody wanted to use their store or even bother with the new format, so all their games also have a normal x86 version.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Their main mistake was never trying to make their walled garden not suck ass. I would try to install things from the windows store just to see about it back when I was running windows and it took an infernally long time to open the store, search for an app, and then install that app.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

90% of the time apps would not even install or update for me. It was immensely annoying if I wanted to just send a quick message on WhatsApp, but I had to update, and then the update didn't work. It just gets stuck on 99% completed for eternity.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it took an infernally long time to open the store, search for an app, and then install that app.

After about a year of Linux and using package managers/AUR to install and update software, it blows my mind to think that I would ever choose to do it a different way.

I don't know how I put up with that shit for so many years.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh for sure. Even the other traditional way of doing windows installs (finding an EXE or MSI and then downloading it) sucks ass. The only good way to do things on windows is with Choco lol

this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024

53 points (81.2% liked)

Linux Gaming

15426 readers

43 users here now

Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.