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Comment by Almondsetat | Hacker News Reader

I don't like the way videogames have monopolized almost all consumer tech discussion.

Please show me this rendering smoothly a Windows 11 desktop, GNOME, KDE, a PDF reader, a news website

It's not really 'about' videogames though - Quake has just become an extremely useful reference/testbed because it's open source, very well written and easy to port.

You see it in experiments and graphics papers all the time. It makes total sense to use it.

All rendering is done in 3D these days. Even your desktop. Making games better makes everything better.

I was going to write a flippant comment, but I am now genuinely curious if anyone has made a desktop with game middleware like Unity, UnrealEngine, or Godot

Any of the VR Virtual Desktop apps are certainly done in UnrealEngine or the like, but I think it's really just a virtual display for your computer and the 'desktop engine' is still windows if I'm interpreting your comment correctly.

Take a look at the Godot subreddit. I've seen at least one or two people who made desktop tools with it.

The way any of the modern compositors work is essentially the same.

Godot editor, a desktop app, is made in Godot itself afaik

PC Gaming is the last group of consumers who pay for software that does not run in a web browser.

If you are interested in the continuation of personal computing on open platforms, don't leave out gamers.

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