Posted May 07, 2016
vv221: There’s nothing easier than gaming on Linux today ;-)
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/linux_playit_weekly_news
johnnygoging: well tell that to my stdout spam and mystery 5 minute launch times on a fresh Debian Jessie. https://www.gog.com/forum/general/linux_playit_weekly_news
edit: thanks for that! +1 I'll go through that later!
But I am talking about Steam here. Everything I've played on Linux from GOG has worked fine. but in GOG's case, that's also a lot of it running on DOSBOX.
blakstar: No reason to feel bad. There's nothing wrong with gaming on Windows; I still use a couple of Windows machines, but I prefer to use Linux. So, when games get released in both Windows and Linux versions, I tend to opt for Linux.
It's all about choice, and if you've already got a Windows system that works well for you, there's no reason to stop using it.
And I wouldn't look so much on the bleak side; I'm sure that games will be released for Linux in future! :-)
johnnygoging: hopefully. I think a move to Linux support would be good for both publishers and users. it would just be good in different ways and there are other opinions of what's good besides the kind of good Linux would bring in. but as for my lack of optimism I was surprised that adoption was still that low when those numbers came out. It's all about choice, and if you've already got a Windows system that works well for you, there's no reason to stop using it.
And I wouldn't look so much on the bleak side; I'm sure that games will be released for Linux in future! :-)
Games for Linux, or so it seems to me, have made massive leaps in progress since the early days, as has the hardware support. So I tend to look on the optimistic side with regard to the future of Linux.