I actually have a lot of issues with the walled gardens the console makers sell. That doesn’t stop me from using it, but I should not need to wait for Sony to “add support” for basic HDMI standard features like VRR and question why the only tvs that support that are their own.
In a perfect world? Standard, preferably open source, libraries and tools for anything possible with “ease of use” and the like provided through the same package managers and management tools that allow IT departments to manage/monitor deployed systems. This greatly reduces the need to hope that Microsoft add discord support to the xbox or that nintendo… understands what an internet is. And it greatly reduces OS development/overhead for the consoles because… it isn’t like people are buying playstations for the… I can’t even think of anything unique to the OS that isn’t purely UI/UX.
Fair enough! I mean, that would be really nice tbh. Also it makes me realize that consoles only exist for DRM, which is sucky. Granted, I stopped buying consoles almost a decade ago, so I never stopped to think about it.
I actually have a lot of issues with the walled gardens the console makers sell. That doesn’t stop me from using it, but I should not need to wait for Sony to “add support” for basic HDMI standard features like VRR and question why the only tvs that support that are their own.
In a perfect world? Standard, preferably open source, libraries and tools for anything possible with “ease of use” and the like provided through the same package managers and management tools that allow IT departments to manage/monitor deployed systems. This greatly reduces the need to hope that Microsoft add discord support to the xbox or that nintendo… understands what an internet is. And it greatly reduces OS development/overhead for the consoles because… it isn’t like people are buying playstations for the… I can’t even think of anything unique to the OS that isn’t purely UI/UX.
Fair enough! I mean, that would be really nice tbh. Also it makes me realize that consoles only exist for DRM, which is sucky. Granted, I stopped buying consoles almost a decade ago, so I never stopped to think about it.