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0 pointsflukus8y ago0 comments

Your mileage may differ but ~50% of my library is playable on linux, purchased over many years with no thought towards linux compatibility. 99% of the time I spent playing could be done on linux, so I switched over my main gaming PC. The downside was losing access to a lot of games I don't play anyway, which is ok.

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Havoc8y ago· 2 in thread

Just checked - officially just under a third of my library has *nix compatibility. Impressive compared to my 10% estimate, broken compared to the 100% windows working.

I'm hoping things have changed, but based on my last linux gaming adventure I'm very wary - seemed like a complete crapshoot as to whether your distro's audio and gfx setup aligns with the game and even then the FPS rate is a complete luck of the draw. And god help you if you're not on a standard ubuntu gnome setup...

acct17718y ago

The OS isn't broken, the software you're deciding to buy is. Take it up with the developer who decided to not write cross platform, it's %currentyear%.

Havoc8y ago

That's a fine attitude to have in the FOSS world and arguably correct from a philosophical point of view.

Practically it's a complete non-starter though. The reality is the majority of my games don't work on Linux and frankly I have better things to do than mail campaigns about cross platform.

So gamers will stay with windows via pure inertia & it'll continue to be a self-reinforcing cycle.

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