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Where's the video games tho. Linux could get huge market share from gamers who want to get their geek on.
by FT_intern 10y ago
Where's the video games tho. Linux could get huge market share from gamers who want to get their geek on.
- ohstopitu 10y agoI would love to add video games to that list but I have not looked into the data for game distribution - Steam claims that it has over 1000 games for Linux but Microsoft also claimed it has millions of apps for Windows Phone and that didn't help it get wide adoption. I will probably look into various factors (support for the latest hardware out of the box, game libraries, support for Linux by popular games from day 1 etc.) but from the last time I had looked into it (back in 2013), Linux was definitely not "gamer" friendly - (Everything from drivers, random bugs and game libraries). The reason I added those points to that list is because, in my opinion...those are easily achievable in the next 5 years (but that's definitely not the case for games at the moment).
- sqeaky 10y ago> Steam claims > Microsoft also claimed One of these groups is honest and has publicly checkable sources. I can confirm just by opening steam that there are more than 1,000 games that support Linux. Most of them are indie games released for the the 3 PC platforms, there are a fewer larger titles, but the biggest names are avoiding Linux and sometimes even Mac OS now. So while Guacamelee, Braid, Dustforce and Kerbal Space program work on all three, Doom and GTA 5 don't.