GNU/Linus is now taking over the gaming scene. Windows, XBox

>>59706755
I wish you fuckers would die already, the year of the Linux desktop equals NEVER

.02%?!?!?!?!?!

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP 2017 CONFIRMED

at this rate it will take almost 200 years for linux to go mainstream.

>>59706775
>NEVER
2017*

Eh, Microsoft is doing a damn good job at infuriating nerds.

>>59706755
>the .02% was probably me playing an hour of CMR 2.0 in wine

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>>59706755
Relevant pasta if someone's interested:

Not him but the no games argument is not true anymore. Windows is the best os for gaming mostly due to most game developers are trained into developing for it with microsoft's closed APIs, so the simple process of porting a game that was developed for windows to any other platform will affect negatively the performance of the game. This with the fact that the marketshare is small compared to windows there's hardly an incentive at the moment to optimize for linux, making look as if the platform were worse for games than windows when in fact to flip the situation you'll need to change the idiosyncrasies on the industry itself.

The fact though is that the situation on linux is not nearly the same than two years ago and now those who prefer linux over windows now can play games on it, helping to break the vicious circle, but still there's a lot of things to do for linux to compete in the gaming side. I anyone wants for this to change i recommend to play the games you can on linux when possible and ask for linux ports.

I notice some people doesn't want's for this to happen but if that the case let me ask (not directed specifically to the person i'm replying): how are any of you benefited in a meaningful way with the current situation? because i consider that keeping the statu quo just to have a tool to win an argument on what OS is better is not a meaningful thing. how having less options and practically being locked to MS products benefits you?

Some links:
https://steamdb.info/linux/
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&os=linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXr8bqzf45Y
https://www.youtube.com/user/tuxreviews/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/airspeedmph
https://www.youtube.com/user/Jakejw93/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/mrdeathjr28/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWZvwhwT1Sk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9gsu_YWUzE

>>59708317
Not possible since it requires the windows version of steam so it would be read as windows

>>59706755
>video games

>>>/v/

>>59709405
On top of that the survey doesn't counts all users and it's more about showing hardware trends than software trends. No joke, i use the linux steam client since 2014 and i have been surveyed on linux only twice despite the fact i'm 95% on linux and that i mostly only play linux games being the most funny part that if i try a game on wine the survey is immediately triggered, there's something fishy with that survey.

Just a moment ago I tested how XCOM works on Windows 8 and Ubuntu on one of my laptops and also on another only on Ubuntu.
Unfortunatelly, the Windows version works nice and Ubuntu has issues, skipping frames, slide show animations and so on. It's playable but with issues.
By the way, that one VN I really like works surprisingly well with Play On Linux.

It's like 3DO of console world.

When plugins are fully dead will the year of desktop linux be one step closer.

>>59706755
that was me switching btw

>>59706775
>It will never be right now
Really makes me think