On the history of Valve and Linux: Valve and Linux have a symbiotic relationship today, but they go way back, and their story is a long and interesting one.

Tea@programming.dev · 8 days ago

On the history of Valve and Linux: Valve and Linux have a symbiotic relationship today, but they go way back, and their story is a long and interesting one.

gnuhaut@lemmy.ml · 8 days ago

So, the Manhattan Project started. Manhattan Project was Microsoft’s attempt at creating a set of APIs that would make the task of writing games for their platform significantly less painful. The questionable naming decision was, sadly, fully intentional: while Microsoft had most of the PC gaming on its side, the gaming industry as a whole was mostly dominated by game consoles from Japan.

WTF Microsoft.