The current state of Linux "gaming".

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y-yeah w-w-well only children and people who have friends play video games!

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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Linux is good comrades.

>Implying a higher form of digital entertainment is possible

top pleb

>>60163718
>images (5)
>(5)
>>>/trash/

>>60163832
Yes fellow comrade, GPL is the best license and anyone who says otherwise will be sent to gulag

>>60163928

yes but at least I am free

>>60163718
>Current state of /v/ shills

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>>60163718
>t. An uneducated swine who has never played Tux Racer
Tux Racer is fun as fuck, you wouldn't understand though, fucking Wintards

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>>60163718
S-stfu you poo in the loo microshill

We c-can play The Sims (1) in Wine at a-a-almost 20 fps you SHITLORD. E-enjoy your botnet

>>60163718
Is this STILL the flagship game on Linux in 2017? Are you shitting me?

>>60164331
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxracer/?source=typ_redirect

It sure is summer now.

>>60163718
What is Steam?

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let us not forget this gem

who needs another game that isn't tetris?

>>60165238
/v/ kids to justify spending good boy points on a Nvydia 10180 FTW edition with leeeeds!!!!!XD

>No DLC
>No DRM
Sounds good

http://store.steampowered.com/linux

>>60163718
>Gaming in 2017

>>60163718
That level is called "Who says penguins can't fly?". I played it all the time when I was younger because it was a constant downhill on ice, which makes you go really fast. Good times.

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I hate this meme, not because it's not funny (it is) but because it misrepresents things to newbies.

There are a lot of great games on Steam that run natively on Linux, and there are a lot of Windows game that just work with wine.

For example, Doom 2016 is pretty much just plug and play (pic related)

>>60165330
there just aren't enough decent PC games to justify building an autistic "gaming rig battlestation" rather than buying a console. For the most part, PC games are just bad console ports, shitty indie games (there are way too many of those), generic first-person shooters, and boring MMO grind-fests. It's very rare that PC gets a good exclusive nowadays.

>>60164540
>5 stars
Sounds right. It's an amazing game

>>60165454
doom a shit :)

>Shitting on tuxracer
GOTYAY

>>60165495
>but muh PC muster race!!1!! >le pleb console peasant XD

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>>60165454
>vram 8192
>152 fps
>via wine

delet this garbge

>>60165644
>muh FPS broo 144 fps 4k mater race!!1!xD
Than-k you based nvydia for the sick 108000 FTW edition with led display to count even more fps whilw owning!1!
I want fucking mods to ban /v/ scum.

>>60165995
>I want fucking mods to ban /v/ scum.
fuck are you even talking about? typical projecting debian user.

>>60165454
Looks garbage.

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>>60163718
You just picked the worst game to feel sug

> Tux slider(?)
Never played that game

> Tux racer
Looks like shit, good Mario Kart clone

> 0ad
Very great RTS, would recommend

> Globulation 2
Just started trying it out. Looks like a promising RTS. Essentially, unit creation & tasking is automated. Still looks like shit, though.


Remember kids, don't date a girl because of her graphics; date because of her gameplay.

>>60166075
>waaa i want to post whatever i want on every board1!!1!!!
Fuck off kid, you might find yourself in better company in reddit.

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>>60166270
triggered as fuck lmao

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>>60166426
>fuck you, I do what I want!

>>60163928
gnulag*

>>60163718
>wangblows is so bad it needs a "game mode"

ITT:

NEETs without jobs shitting on a platform that makes devs and pentesters money.

Stay gf-less nerds.

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>>60166538
noice

>>60163718
I know this is bait and you are a retard, but here you go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_games

That list is far from complete though, now excuse me I'm going to play some UT2004 Freon on my /g/entoo machine.

>>60164421
We also have Civ6 and Hitman but what do you need those for if you have Tux Racer and Armagettron?
What is windows flagship game?
With XP atleast you still had Pinball what do you have now?

back when mmo's where still a thing, the one i was playing for like 5 years had linux support long before it got mac support. however back then microshit also was still a good company and so i was still on windawz.

hahahahahahaha I had no idea it was this bad

>>60166628
candy crush i guess

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>>60166666
>>66666

DELTE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>60166677
no, satanic quints have spoken

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>>60166696
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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>>60163718
>Got Nvidia optimus working on workstation laptop w/ bumblebee
>SIX HOUR battery life with full GPU bolted on
>Runs 50% of gaming library
>Stream the rest from my headless passthrough or use wine for dark souls & bad company 2
>ZFS root on laptop that saved data from faulty SSD in a mirror
This is fine.

>>60166628
Candy crush & Minecraft.

>>60163718
Most modern games are shit anyways. Linux runs Baldur's Gate and Civ V.

>>60166628
Lets fucking see shall we

Witcher 3, Overwatch, Battlefield 1, Dark Souls 3, MGS:V

>>60168028
Overwatch and Witcher work in wine, and very well, surprisingly enough.

>>60168089
lol what:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=16884

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=17145

>>60166749
you should use nvidia prime instead, bumblebee is a dead project.
nvidia prime is way faster too, the bad partis it requires a logout/login to switch gpus.

>run linux as desktop OS
>play stellaris
>play TF2

I just install a win10 partition and then delete it after if a game on steam won't run in linux. Not a big deal.

>>60163718
The PERPETUAL state of Linux gaming, you idiot.

>try to play CS:GO on Linux
>lower FPS, way higher var (3-7ms)

Yeah no. Not even games directly ported to Linux run decently.

Also, no Visual Studio.

>freetards trying to claim they have games
>when 90% of the games that they have are closed source, and WINE is used to play closed source games

>>60169986
>visual studio
>pretending he uses his computer for anything productive
sure thing, /v/fag

>>60170140
>freetards claiming they have games
>freetards show that they have games
>i don't like that because i only want them to run on my precious windows :(

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>>60163718
>The current state of Windows gaymen.

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>>60163718
actual current state of linux gaming.

>>60170310
stay mad, Lincuck.

>>60170319
You are no longer a freetard when you have to use closed source games on your open source platform to prove your point. Running Windows games through WINE defeats the purpose of FOSS because the games are closed source. Running closed source ports of games on Linux is also anti FOSS.

>>60170347
>window blinds

Holy fucking shit blast from the past.

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>>60170372
You can advocate free software and still play proprietary games, there is no conflict.

>>60170362
>a buggy unfinished clone

sounds about right

>>60170446
But closed source games can spy on you. The most common type is monitoring how you play and sending that data back to the developers for them to analyze and take into account for future games. The closed source nature of these games can also introduce more malicious security vulnerabilities into your system.

>>60170372
I think you'll find that most people don't really care about FOSS, they just want an alternative to Windows operating system itself because it turned into shit

>>60170372
>playing closed-source games? Y-you're not a real freetard! Checkmate!

What exactly is this supposed to prove? Are you just angry that people hate your toy OS so much that they are willing to go to autistic lengths to avoid using it but still have their favorite software?

>>60168028
Didnt know they are PC exclusive.

Oh wait
>All of them are on Consoles

>>60170529
I'm just trying to understand their way of thinking. Why is a closed source music player considered malware, but a closed source video game isn't?

>>60168028
>Having to Buy your flagship Games
(which are also on other Platforms)
R.I.P Windows, even Solitair costs now.

>>60170545
Most people probably don't care about closed vs. open source at all, they just want a different operating system. I don' care about it, anyways, and I have no problem paying for software that works. Heck I don't even care if it's closed-source, as long as it just works for what I downloaded it for and doesn't try to install some toolbar or send data without my permission or some shit.

>implying Tux Kart isn't the best game ever made

>>60170681
the music sucks

>>60163718
Looks about 20 years out of date. Guess that's actually about right for Linux in general.

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>>60163718

>>60170720
>half-life franchise practically abandoned
where did it all go wrong

>>60165454
But it doesn't matter if Linux has SOME games.

It only matters if it has ALL PC games. Otherwise, when you want to play that one PC game that isn't supported on Linux, you're going to have to use Windows one way or another.

>>60170733
>tfw Gabe could release Half-Life 3 as a steambox exclusive
>tfw Gabe hasn't done it
>tfw it could more or less do the Linux desktop year just by doing so

>>60165353
Also no fun

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Linux is fucking trash, holy shit.

>>60170689
At least it was catchy enough that I remember it

>>60163718
>>60170362
>>60170823
>>>/v/

>>60170733
Hasn't gone wrong for Valve's bottom line

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>>60170886
>calls Linux shit
>must be from /v/, reddit, etc

Autistic as fuck, just like your shitty OS.

>>60163718
3000 games on steam

In a year half of my games got linux support

Also try running bloodrayne from cd on windows 7 or 10 see how well your backwards compadibility works

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>The real state of GNU/Linux gaming.

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>>60171311

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>>60171323

>>60171329
I'd post more pictures but I think the point has been driven hard enough. There are a lot of Triple A titles that run natively on Linux.

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>tfw failed to run WoW on Wine

With WINE getting DX11 support and DX12 games typically having Vulkan as an alternative, the compatibility situation is no worse than getting older games to work on Windows.

The long-term solution is to develop a universal standard for games. Being able to sell a game as a standalone product would greatly increase a developer's potential audience. It would also eliminate the problem of games potentially falling into obscurity, due to deprecated hardware.

>>60170927
>>calls Linux shit
>>must be from /v/, reddit, etc
that's most probably true

Open Arena is the greatest game for GNU/Linux

Dota 2.

>>60171311
I'm always amazed how they managed to create Novigrad and have it placed in a world with both Velen, the Eastern forest and Skellige. Not to mention the other city and wildland in Toussaint. The amount of development on just crafting the world is staggering, and it all feels alive. Witcher 3 and Alien Isolation are the only games I've let myself play in the past few years and I'm glad I did. Can't wait to see what they do with Cyberpunk.

>>60163718
Not that ma you native games unfortunately. I currently only play New Vegas through wine and it works well on 2.5 staging with galling nine patch. Only downsides I saw are freeze when alt tab and occasional for dips in CPU heavy scenarios. Game actually feels smoother on wine, maybe just a placebo.

>>60171382
>as a standalone product

You mean, the develop only has to think about getting the game to work for one platform(?) which can run on all consoles/operating systems?

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>>60163718
>want to play games on my laptop while gone from home
>have a bunch of gog games
>a bunch of lego games
>and NFS HP2-MW
the gog games break off when being installed
the lego games all have the same texture bug that makes them unplayable (even though that wine website says they are perfectly playable)
but the need for speed games
fuck
who could ever imagine nfs games to run better on wine than on win7
at least the older ones

also medicalat works but the sound is nonexistent that makes me sad pls halp

>>60166270
How does it feel to project better than a laser projector.

>>60166195
>Remember kids, don't date a girl because of her graphics; date because of her gameplay.

implying /g/ dates girls

>>60171540
Yes, something like a file format that runs the game inside a prepacked virtual machine.

Wine is windows, faggots.

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>>60163718
I never play vidya, 'cus it's a waist of time.
But when I play diablo 2 on wine and it works like butter.

>>60170774
Or you could just not play that game.

Really, once you put your freedom above this needless desire to "play all PC games" then it becomes easy to see why you should be using GNU/Linux.

>>60170482
Can't you just... firewall it?

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Nah we are fine

>>60170362
eternal alpha

>>60171285
Yeah, too bad 95% of those are crappy indie titles.

>>60172846
Remember when streetfighter v installed a rootkit?

https://m.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter_v/

>>60164797
I-it s-sure i-is s-s-summer n-n-now

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>>60166666
what a waste
>>60163755
also people who know how to click several buttons during a linux installation so you would have a dual boot.

>>60163718
Shit

>>60170545
>Why is a closed source music player considered malware, but a closed source video game isn't?

Because there is no IP to protect in a fucking music player, the only reason to close source it is to use DRM or ads.

>>60164797
Wait till the end of the month before it's summer.