They’ve been partners ever since WSL launched, it was initially only available with Ubuntu.

Trust that Microsoft will send upstream any feature they don’t want to maintain themselves. Slowly, but surely there will be featured that only work on Windows. Then, when they believe they don’t have to play nice anymore, they’ll close off the code.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

I’ve lost so many of those over the years lol

I doubt the Chinese companies will comply, even if they agree on the surface. Whoever releases the most powerful model when the truce ends, will have the advantage. If anything, research and training will continue, releases will slow down.

Epic’s anti cheat support Linux, the CEO refuses(-ed) to use it in their own games because they hate Linux.

Talking out of my ass, i think this shift is one of two things. The first would be their customers wanting to target Steam Deck having doubts of Epic’s anti cheat capacity in Linux. If they don’t support it in their own games (and Rocket League had Linux support before being bought out). The other is they want to launch their own Linux based console with their Store pre-installed. They’ve always wanted to have a store front, to the point they challenged Google and Apple for a bigger piece of the pie. Today, this last part is unlikely considering the price of components.