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  • Is anyone here playing games in Linux these days?

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 26 06:05:39 2025
    :P

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  • From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 26 07:12:37 2025
    On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:05:39 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    :P

    According to gs.statcounter.com, the total number of people using
    Linux as as desktop for *ANYTHING* (let alone gaming) required a time
    span of 16 years to grow from <1 percent to 4.27, and is now slightly
    on the decline.

    Of that number (now about 4.0%), how many are using it as a gaming OS?

    And of that number, what are the chances anyone in this little
    backwater newsgroup would be LEGITIMATELY using it for gaming?

    By legitimately, I don't mean attention-seeking contrarians who do
    shit like that just to be able to say "look at me, I'm the exception
    to all things in human nature coz momma told me Im spaytial"...

    ... I mean someone who is legitimately using Linux as their gaming
    platform, either because they are just too poor to buy a copy of
    Windows or their desire to be a doucheactivist for all things
    anti-Microsoft outweighs their common sense, etc.

    I posted here 15 years ago that nobody should realistically expect
    this to happen in our lifetimes, and its more true than ever.

    What is interesting, though, is the the closest Linux ever came to a
    successful desktop OS was via Mac OSX which is basically a variant of
    it.

    But even that has appears to have undergone a bloodbath of marketshare
    loss (cut in half since late 2023) according to statcounter.

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  • From LucLan@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Jun 26 11:14:23 2025
    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    :P

    Hello. I am playing games in Linux (Manjaro).

    Why are you asking?

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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Jun 26 15:29:29 2025
    ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:

    :P

    Sometimes but I don't have a good Linux setup for games currently, I've
    been thinking of using an old beefy laptop for this. I just need some of
    those round tuits.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to LucLan on Thu Jun 26 19:16:49 2025
    LucLan <address@is.invalid> wrote:
    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    :P

    Hello. I am playing games in Linux (Manjaro).

    Why are you asking?

    Just curious how many newsgroups are using Linux to play PC games. :)
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Anssi Saari on Fri Jun 27 06:20:06 2025
    Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 12:29 this Thursday (GMT):
    ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:

    :P

    Sometimes but I don't have a good Linux setup for games currently, I've
    been thinking of using an old beefy laptop for this. I just need some of those round tuits.


    I personally use linux, and most of the games I care about work fine.
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Fri Jun 27 09:00:13 2025
    On 26/06/2025 14:56, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    I'm a fan of Linux. I use Linux. I recommend it to (some) people. I've
    set up Linux computers for some relatives. In many respects it (and derivatives like SteamOS) are far superior to Windows.

    As a development platform I find Linux/Unix far superior to Windows and
    I remember the first time I moved to Windows after many years with
    Solaris. I just couldn't believe how limited it was when it came to all
    those little tools you could string together to do all sorts of things.

    As a gaming platform, like you it's a no for the same reasons of
    compatibility.

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  • From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 27 12:18:10 2025
    On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:06:30 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/26/2025 4:12 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
    On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:05:39 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    :P

    According to gs.statcounter.com, the total number of people using
    Linux as as desktop for *ANYTHING* (let alone gaming) required a time
    span of 16 years to grow from <1 percent to 4.27, and is now slightly
    on the decline.

    Does that count Steam OS?

    I'm not sure Steam OS counts as a desktop OS, but if it is tracked as
    desktop at all, I'm fairly sure it would be categorized as "Unknown"
    rather than Linux in their metrics.

    And while it might be originally Linux-based, I don't think it would
    be generally considered Linux any more than MacOS is considered Linux.
    Because once an OS is modified to the point where it's a closed and
    proprietary ecosystem, it's kind of at the opposite end of the
    spectrum of what Linux is supposed to be and its really just a
    proprietary UNIX flavor at that point.

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