YouTube to acquire Twitch.tv for $1 Billion.

[Yosher]

whats going on here? 

Absolutely nothing. What are you thinking? That this is some Illuminati conspiracy?

[Ad Bot]

[blueblur121]

whats next mac donalds buys Nintendo?
facebook buy's minecraft?
this is extremely suspicious on whats been happening with facebook buying the oclous and now Youtube buying twitch. whats going on here?  

No it's not. It's completely normal for large companies to buy smaller ones to increase their earnings.

anyways they probably arent going to devote 5-6 people to develop something for linux when they could be used for something else
linux isnt widely used in the scope of consumer PC's and thats really google's target (consumer market is)

They already devoted a lot more than that to creating their own Linux distribution. The least they could do is support it.

And again, you seem to be ignoring the fact that they already said they were going to do it.

[Night Fox]

And again, you seem to be ignoring the fact that they already said they were going to do it.

if you were paying for the service that would actually be a valid complaint

[Frankie²]

They already devoted a lot more than that to creating their own Linux distribution. The least they could do is support it.

they do support it, except its only chrome os ;)
sorry that companies look over you because they dont give a forget about ~1% of computer users

[blueblur121]

They didn't make a google drive client for Chrome OS. They just make in-browser utilities interact with the OS itself. If they made a Google Drive client for any Linux distribution, I am 100% sure that it would also be released to others. And even if it's not officially released for others, the community would upload it to the AUR so that it can be installed via a tarball.

And also, a variation of Ubuntu called "Goobuntu" is used internally by about half of Google's emplyees. It would at the very least be released as a .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian based distrobutions.

[Frankie²]

They didn't make a google drive client for Chrome OS. They just make in-browser utilities interact with the OS itself. If they made a Google Drive client for any Linux distribution, I am 100% sure that it would also be released to others. And even if it's not officially released for others, the community would upload it to the AUR so that it can be installed via a tarball.

And also, a variation of Ubuntu called "Goobuntu" is used internally by about half of Google's emplyees. It would at the very least be released as a .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian based distrobutions.

if you're using linux you really should expect to be second in line in everything, if you're even in line at all

sorry that companies look over you because they dont give a forget about ~1% of computer users

[blueblur121]

Google has already stated that it's desktop OS of choice is Ubuntu LTS, which happens to be the worlds most popular open-source OS.
Steam is currently developing a Linux based OS for their upcoming Steam Machines.

Sure more users use Windows, but that is purely because of how easy it is. Stop acting like Linux isn't a good OS just because not as much software is made for it. If something isn't compatible with Linux, Linux can easily become compatible with it.

And before someone pulls the "emulators aren't perfect" excuse, that is almost always the fault of the program itself.

At the end of the day, Linux is only unpopular because it is difficult for the average user to operate. But if you take the time to learn how to use it, it can do some amazing things.

[Doomonkey]

If you Google "google drive linux" a third-party client for Linux users is literally the second result. Didn't read to deep into it, but it seems legitimate.

[Frankie²]

Google has already stated that it's desktop OS of choice is Ubuntu LTS, which happens to be the worlds most popular open-source OS.
Steam is currently developing a Linux based OS for their upcoming Steam Machines.

Sure more users use Windows, but that is purely because of how easy it is. Stop acting like Linux isn't a good OS just because not as much software is made for it. If something isn't compatible with Linux, Linux can easily become compatible with it.

And before someone pulls the "emulators aren't perfect" excuse, that is almost always the fault of the program itself.

At the end of the day, Linux is only unpopular because it is difficult for the average user to operate. But if you take the time to learn how to use it, it can do some amazing things.

if im a developer and i want to reach as many people as i can, i would obviously develop for windows
i never said a thing about "how bad linux is"

[blueblur121]

If you Google "google drive linux" a third-party client for Linux users is literally the second result. Didn't read to deep into it, but it seems legitimate.

Insync sucks. Grive-tools takes the command line Google Drive tool, Grive, and adds a GUI, system tray icon, and automatic syncing.

And I was talking about an official one. User made alternatives are nice, but sometimes forget up.

if im a developer and i want to reach as many people as i can, i would obviously develop for windows
i never said a thing about "how bad linux is"

If a developer wanted to reach as many people as possible they would make cross-platform software. If someone developed only for Windows, odds are they don't care about how widespread their software is.

[Frankie²]

If a developer wanted to reach as many people as possible they would make cross-platform software. If someone developed only for Windows, odds are they don't care about how widespread their software is.

it makes literally no sense to divert resources to develop something that won't get that much attention anyway
sucks for you but thats how it is, google isnt gonna use up its resources to appease 1% of google drive users

[Jaxx]

If a developer wanted to reach as many people as possible they would make cross-platform software. If someone developed only for Windows, odds are they don't care about how widespread their software is.

you have literally no loving clue what you're talking about

[Ipquarx]

In numbers: that's over 90% windows, 4% mac, 3.6% other, and 1.6% linux.

[ultimamax]

Granted, I'm pretty sure much of Windows' empire is business-sided, not consumer sided. My guess they have like 70% of consumers.

[xSetrox]

you see, that pie chart shows a lot of windows editions, and not linux editions and mac editions, thus making them smaller
therefore it's inaccurate
linux has flavors like mint, and mac i'm not too sure about but it has snow leopard
think of it:
>graph shows windows vista and whatnot
>graph doesn't show linux mint and stuff
>graph doesn't show mac snow leopard
you get what i'm trying to say?
if you just eliminate the versions all together you'll get a huge chunk of mac and linux users
so that chart is basically biased
it's hard to explain, please don't stuff on me if you don't understand
and so linux isn't really that unpopular