3. The twitch desktop application is one of the worst programs I've used

The twitch desktop application is one of the worst programs I've used

thankyou for letting me rant alongside your rant about the Desktop App Kappa. Its a different complaint, same program :P.

 

"In March 2014, Ubuntu claimed 22,000,000 users." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

 

Guess those 22 million people (just on one distribution alone) arn't included in the for-profit model of Twitch, Kappa.

 

The fact that it fails to work on any other OS just makes it pointless for a large portion of the community. Twitch being unable to perform this is very frustrating. Discord, Steam, Spotify, huge other large corporate conglomerates can manage this. To bring out a new platform, mixing both Twitch and Curse and then the developers being so basic as to be un able to handle coding. Kinda makes one lack faith in the business infrastructure. Ie, cant handle linux code = maybe cant handle windows code well either. I know thats hypothetical, but it is inevitably what I think from a user perspective.

 

This is due to a lack of corporate "ranking" for aims. Ie i would buy a game from Steam over Twitch due to knowing that Steam supported by platform and feeling I should support "higher ranking business models". Ie, Twitch aimed low = business might sink due to lack of progressiveness within the business model.

 

In terms of the Twitch desktop application. If it cant be made Linux, then the corporate might inevitably sink. You never know what tomorrow brings with market share... being ahead of the curb is extremely important for a business. I guess from an invester point of view, I would be looking at it like, if they cant code for linux, and Linux moves into a higher market share, will the business be able to switch so readily to support it? You don't know, so why invest verses another corporate with higher threshold for intake (ie, includes another 22 million possible buyers/users).

 

I would imagine it may be "exclusive" for Windows. But... that is severely lackluster as its a free application. There is no cost savings to lock it into one platform.

 

The fact that most platforms don't even know that you are using Linux (for example, with using Wine, a program is unable to tell that you are not using Windows). So datamining whether or not users have Linux active or not is a little difficult depending on the on the program. This is because Linux is more privacy friendly, ie, it is meant to be like that.

 

For example, coding wise it should figuratively already run on Linux if it can run on Andriod. "Android, which is based on the Linux kernel, has become the dominant operating system for smartphones. During the second quarter of 2013, 79.3% of smartphones sold worldwide used Android.[107] Android is also a popular operating system for tablets, being responsible for more than 60% of tablet sales as of 2013.[140] According to web server statistics, as of December 2014 Android has a market share of about 46%, with iOS holding 45%, and the remaining 9% attributed to various niche platforms.[141]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Market_share_and_uptake

 

A huge range of Schools, Universities, Governments, Companies, all use linux; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

 

Just saying... it triggers the fuck out of me that I can't use this application... just because of supposed "laziness".

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