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Btw, you can play a lot of games on Linux! Depends on what your tastes are. If you have a soft spot for SkiFree or bland, cookie-cutter shooters then maybe gam
by kakarot 9y ago
Btw, you can play a lot of games on Linux!
Depends on what your tastes are. If you have a soft spot for SkiFree or bland, cookie-cutter shooters then maybe gaming on GNU/Linux is enough for you. But most of the games available for GNU/Linux are candy, games for games sake, and don't have much intellectual value. Wine helps a bit but a lot of things still break especially with modern titles.
My solution is running Windows 7 in KVM with GPU passthrough to an external monitor. Best of both worlds.
- wjoe 9y agoDon't agree with that at all. I have over 300 Linux games on Steam, and there's a wide variety of games. Sure, it's lacking the big AAA releases that make the headlines, but in my opinion, those are the 'cookie-cutter' type games that don't have much intellectual value. There are many indie and small developers creating interesting games, and with Unity and other big engines supporting Linux now, it's a relatively small hurdle for them to release their games on Linux, and there are many of them. I also had a GPU passthrough VM setup, but the only time I used it in the last year was to play Overwatch - a cookie-cutter shooter. I play the occasional game in Wine, but there's no shortage of engaging native Linux games.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y agoBut if you're going to spend a bunch of money on a gaming rig, because you're that kind of gamer as opposed to someone who just casually sometimes plays some games when they work, then it seems incredibly silly to jump through the hoops of wine and VMs with GPU passthrough and still not be able to play everything.
- justinclift 9y agoSeveral of the Borderlands titles work on Linux. Civ 5 (not sure about 6) works on Linux. It's not as bleak as it used to be. :)