With over 500 bug fixes and performance improvements since Qt 6.7, your existing code will run better without changing a single line. On macOS, Qt Quick applications now integrate with the native menu bar, and for a native Windows 11 look they can use the new Fluent style. Resizing Quick windows is snappier on macOS with Qt 6.8, and on Windows the application start-up time has been improved by changing the default font database to DirectWrite.

Nice. Lots of other great stuff too.

You can find obscure games going back to the Amiga pretty easily nowadays.

I used to play this fun game in the early 1990s. I had tried to find it again for a every couple years on and off. Now it simply runs in the browser.

Valve will do with SteamOS what’s good for them and their profits. They aren’t in this for idealism.

It’s not a no brainer. If they want to run x68-64 games on it, they need good tools like Apple’s Rosetta. It would definitely decrease performance and lower the number of compatible games.

Valve is interested in controlling the software they use on their hardware and not being dependent on Microsoft or license costs. They are a for profit business. More games running on their machines help their sales.

RISC-V would be a terrible architecture for them at the moment. There are zero chips available with somewhat competitive performance. The number of commercial games that natively run on it is also small if not zero.