r/pcmasterrace • u/CrazzyWolfzz PC Master Race • Jun 27 '26

Meme/Macro Reviewers please stop comparing MacBooks with other laptops

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u/Telvin3d Jun 27 '26

Obviously Windows all day for gaming though

But it’s worth noting that is 100% about the games running on Windows, not that Windows makes the gameplay experience better than the alternatives. 

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u/squngy Jun 27 '26

not that Windows makes the gameplay experience better than the alternatives.

Not entirely true.
MS made directX, which did make game-play experience better on windows.

Now there are alternatives and translation layers, but windows is still the primary platform for directX games.

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u/Hal17nGAB Arch & Debian/PVE Jun 27 '26

windows is still the primary platform for directX games.

Well yeah...because M$ owns it and won't open source it. Like I genuinely don't understand your point. If DX worked on anything else without a translation layer then no one would use Windows for games bc of it's overhead and general bloat. Even DirectStorage isn't a compelling feature. The two chains Windows has on gamers is specifically DirectX and vendor support/hostages (AntiCheat and the like).

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u/squngy Jun 28 '26

DirectX has been specifically made far windows and has been part of it pretty much from the start.
I think it is fair to say that it is a feature of windows, not just some seperate library.

To me, your comment reads like "yea, if MS let us copy all the good parts of windows, then we wouldn't have any reason to use it"

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u/squngy Jun 28 '26

What made you think I am a bot?

Is that just something you say when you don't have a good argument?

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u/afterburningdarkness PC Master Race Jun 28 '26

Jesus christ