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For me, as a gamer, Linux was not viable until about a decade ago when MS, in their infinite wisdom, pushed Valve to make it viable for gaming. This has always
by oblak 4y ago
For me, as a gamer, Linux was not viable until about a decade ago when MS, in their infinite wisdom, pushed Valve to make it viable for gaming. This has always been my major problem with it.
Sure, I could - and did - play Quake 3 on Linux 20 years ago. My god, it used to start immediately whereas it used to take 2 seconds on Windows. Not sure if that was on ttimo, who I believe did the port for id, or just ext being faster.
But what else was out there? Pretty much nothing besides Tux Racing and similar toy projects. Almost no one else bothered until MS tried a little bit too hard. And Linux is the superior platform in terms of gaming, except that my Valve Index doesn't fucking work properly anymore. For your stupid compositor, Valve. I pad 1080 euro for this thing.
- fragmede 4y agoUgh. I've heard good things about the Steam deck though.
- oblak 4y agoThe Deck looks fantastic. Would've totally gotten one if I had any use for it but I have two modern desktops for desk and TV gaming so yeah. It doesn't look like they'll abandon it like they did with the Index. In fact, this little device may in fact play a major role in Linux desktop adoption beyond the couple of percent that get attributed to it