Serious question, People who exclusivity use Linux, how did

>>61663361
I keep a laptop with Linux
and a Windows desktop for games and photoshop

I dont do any work on Windows. (because I use work computers for that)

and I only do my banking and other private stuff on the Linux

>>61663361
>just lost interest
This pretty much. Everything failed to caught my attention for the last three steam sales.

I'm becoming too old for this shit and i'm just 23.

>>61663361
The only games I play are XP-era and they all run great in WINE, so about a month ago I finally wiped my Windows 7 drive because I hadn't booted into it in over a year. The only games I play in WINE are Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 because they're just too good. The communities are still active as well. Newer games are just shit though. The only recent game I play is Minecraft (Yes, I'm an autistic adult and I enjoy this) and it has native Linux support.

>>61663361
I only play games that work well on Linux.
Simple as that.
It still wastes more than enough time.

Games I played recently, or still play:
XCOM 1
XCOM 2
Civilization V
Civilization VI
Life is Strange
Thimbleweed Park
Stellaris

irc is my rpg
umatrix is my minesweeper
symlinks are my portal
bash scripts are my puzzles
debugging is my fps

free software \emph{is} the game, and it's better and more fun than any of the gay shit you play

i just lost the game

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I use Windows my desktop and Linux on my laptop.

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>>61663361
I used to play wow since I was 15 started when BC rolled out, then after cata was on the battle.net I switched to pirate servers and played a lot. But then wow got stale, I logged in just to troll in global channels. After wow there was no game to substitute that feeling wow gave me. I played a little bit of diablo 3, titan quest and borderlands, roughly 500 hours each and it was that, when I realized I won't get satisfaction from games no more.
For past two years the only game I launched on my machine was openttd, I build a circle railroad and just waste all my money on that single track lonely train.

I never became fond of gaming. I were interested in how computers worked instead, which made me tinker with every part of the Windows installation on my personal computer, until I heard about Linux.

>>61663361
I dual boot on my laptop and that's the only machine I have with W10 or anything Windows.
Windows is a gaming OS through and through.

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>>61663361
I didin't let go
>potato pic related

>>61663361
I play more games after switching to Linux than in the years before on Windows.

>>61663361
I just only play games playable on Linux.

>>61663361
I don't know why , but I foolishly keep a Windows machine full of games (that I never play). I fire up the Windows box for updates every week and never use it. I have Linux on my other desktops and laptop and only play Hacknet and Uplink on them if I feel like playing a game.Games just seem boring these days, I'd rather be learning stuff than wasting time.

VM
Dualboot
GPU Passthrough

i lost interest in gaming long before i switched to linux

>>61663983
>potato pic
Go away reddit

What is there to play that doesn't work on linux?

> any console or handheld game made from last gen
Emulators work on linux
> any pc classic pc games
WINE
> modern pc games
My steam library went from 120 to about 60 on linux and I can't play some like TES or Dark Souls but I have a windows boot just for games if I really hanker for it

>>61663361
Just stop playing games, it's that easy. The "culture" is disgusting, the consumerist tech illiteracy of the average gamer is disgusting, and games are trash in general.

I started playing tetris-bsd

dosbox dungeon crawlers and roguelikes
I like to think I improved myself.

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>>61663361
>just lost interest

and

>>61664021
>I just only play games playable on Linux.

If a game doesn't work on Linux I just don't play it. As well as that I am getting so picky after 30+ years of gaming [started on a ZX Spectrum in the mid '80s] that very little new interests me now.

I have been playing Quake 1 a lot on Linux since it is, in my view, the best FPS ever made. As well as that - Neon Drive I enjoy a lot. And I plan to get into Deadbolt and Party Hard in the next two to three weeks. Basically if you want to run Linux as your main OS you have to make a lot of compromises with gaming. You can forget most modern FPSs and spend your time on retro/pixel gaming or those FPSs which the devs have bothered to make work in Linux. Left 4 Dead 2, for instance, works flawlessly [I'm using Debian]. Also, be careful if Steam says a game works on Linux, it may not. You might have to make an educated guess whether it will or not, or download a demo if one is available.

Princess Remedy, as an example of a good retro game, is fucking awesome. Both games. I seriously recommend them. They're a great example of depth, great gameplay, 80s retro and surreal humour.

Basically if you want to move over, the fact that you're on Linux has to be MORE important than playing every game you want. But there are still a tonne of excellent games available on Linux. You just have to do a little more searching.

I'd already lost interest in games.

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>>61664210
>they know

>>61663498
this seems like a facebook unironic shitpost

>>61663361
don't want to sound like an asshole, but I think that playing vidia games is just a waste of time.
I mean, in your free time you can learn something new (like new operating system), browse web, watch movies, socialize (including shitposting on 4chan), etc. Why would you want to spend that time on playing with mechanics (that you've probably learnt many titles before) of new game?

>>61663361
I play PS1 and GBA games

I'm set, and its 100x better and faster than modern gaming

THat said I want to play Overcooked but no linux port

>>61664521

Not OP but, two words:

Interactive escapism.

There are many forms of escapism: films, music, literature. But interactive games can be beautiful escapism. Inspiring at times. Don't knock them, they can be incredible. I have had some great, great experiences with games.

>>61663414
>he isn't playing pubg

dualboot for league.
now my gpu is freaking out, so my windows partition is useless.

the only thing i sometimes play other than league is xonotic and its on linux.

>>61663361
a lot of games today are a fucking scam, bad or boring and there are games that are somewhat old and they are starting to work fine under wine, so there is not much to lose really, and even with that i started to lose a lot of interest on games

>>61663493
>Civilization V
Literally the only game you'll ever need.

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>>61664214
>Just stop playing games, it's that easy. The "culture" is disgusting, the consumerist tech illiteracy of the average gamer is disgusting, and games are trash in general.
Literally all of this.

>>61663498
>umatrix is my minesweeper

>>61664687
>a lot of games today are a fucking scam, bad or boring
Also this. Hollywew has turned gaming into interactive jewvies.

>>61664641
I too thought games could be on par with literature, art and film when I was 17. Then I grew the fuck up.

>>61663361
I play only CSGO on PC, and it runs on Loonix. No reason to use Windows.

I game in a Windows 10 virtual machine alongside Linux, google VFIO.

>>61663361
There are TONS of games for Linux now -- check out Steam and see what all is supported. It's insane compared to 10+ years ago.

Plus there's Playstation, XBox, etc.

Peak videogames happened back around 2005. Not much reason to bother with them since.

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>>61663361
All of my games have a native Linux version, or run perfectly with WINE.
Granted, I don't play many video games.

>>61664672
>camping in a house simulator
That's fucking boring, I'd rather shitpost.

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Every thread about video games is
>tfw to mature for video games
Like anybody here is mature lmao.

Anyways, I kinda realized the other day I spend most of my time on Linux and I don't miss windows much at all. Booting into it feels suffering because it just feels so bloated. I boot into windows for some games but Linux support is pretty good, and WINE is coming along.

>>61664872
You clearly haven't played it, you can't camp and hope to win.

>>61664743

Some games are art. And some games are better than some literature.

You don't have to compare Tomb Raider to Caravaggio or Dostoevsky but there do exist masterpieces of gaming. There are games with incredible artwork, atmosphere, writing, story and depth. It would be naive to think there aren't.

>>61664910
>>tfw to mature for video games
Clearly it doesn't take much at all.

>>61664751
Stop this meme. Valve only provides a .deb for linux so it only works on Debian and it's derivatives. Good luck getting this shit to work on Fedora.

>>61663361

>installed linux
>actually got a a good job after
>bought a console for occasional gaming

alternatively you can try growing up

>>61663361
I did not let go of PC gaming I just dual boot when I feel the urge to do so. And even then if it's a visual novel I will just use steam on Ubuntu.

>>61663983
Tell me how many games are supported on Steam for Linux now?

>>61664994
Doesn't bother me as a Debian user, and I don't even use the deb package on volvo website, on Debian you can get it straight from non-free repos with apt. It just works. Did you even bother to Google though?
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#Fedora

>>61665156
They're not officially maintained, and it doesn't fucking work.

>>61665186
Move to a better distro (read as: Debian) then instead of being a beta tester for NSA Hat

>>61665086

As of just now, 7947.

Bear in mind that not all of those will work in all Linux disros, but a good quantity will work in your distro, whatever that may be.

>>61664994
You can extract .deb packages on any distro.
Getting the dynamically linked dependencies may or may not be a hassle, but it still should work.

We're getting closer to Wine+Linux dominance, but we're not there yet.

It's really snazzy that you can install the Windows version of Steam through Wine and most of your games will just work, games will automatically run through Wine seamlessly without any special setup.

>>61664212
Skyrim works perfectly in wine.

At some point I just stopped being interested in them.
Nowadays there's always something I would rather be doing with my time. If something really different and interesting comes out I'll give it a try, but the last game that really grabbed me was The Witness.
>>61664910
Yeah this is annoying. The whole "I only eat celery and drink water" shtick is funny, but not when it's done unironically. Anyone who goes on /g/ and criticizes people's hobbies is a retard. They should show /g/ to any surviving grandparents they have and see what their opinion is on how their granson spends his time.

>>61663361
My PC is painfully slow so I only do /vr/-tier games via DOSBox.
I'm quite sure my poorfag experiecnes reflect that of many other linux users.

>>61663361
>>61663361
Become a man and put away childish things. Seriously though, Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program, and Dwarf Fortress are the only games I play anyway. With new AAA games being shit it's not that difficult to give up windows gaming.

>>61665395

I want to get into DF. One day. I don't really have time at the moment. But one day I want to get into it so badly that I don't leave the house for weeks.

>>61664994
>using something other than a Debian derivative

>>61663361
I used a Shitty machine for Linux because the user experience is zero percent different on better hardware. I put Windows and games on the expensive but untrusted hardware. Cost:$50 more than dual booting

>>61663361
Nowadays I sometimes game in a virtual machine with practically native performance but I used to just either temporarily install Windows for the summer/holidays or (usually) entertain myself in other ways. Or game on my 3DS.

WINE can almost run Overwatch decently. It's still a bit stuttery, but developers have made rapid progress lately.

>>61664214
DELID DIS!

>>61663361
>how did you let go of PC gaming for good?
I just grew up.

>>61665026
>alternatively you can try growing up
I don't recommend it. It's worth faking though. Sometimes.

>>61665745
The life and time of Mr K. I. L. Joy Esq

>>61663361
I mostly lost interest, but I still play some linux compatible games from time to time anyway like portal or some of the indie games on steam, most of them are available on linux anyway.

Also, I'm a poor fag without a decent machine to play

>>61663414
Same, I do want to play Starcraft Remastered once it comes out but nothing else.

>>61663361
Prior to switching, I knew that most of my games would work fine on Linux, but afterwards I never really felt the need to play them.
I ended up learning a couple of scripting languages and messed around with them in my spare time.

If you don't mind a loss in quality, streaming is currently the best option. I exclusively play games through Steam's streaming software.

I had realized how utterly worthless and cancerous multi-player games are and ditched them.

Good single-player focused games are rare, so I didn't get my fix as often. letting my interest in games just fade away.

>>61663361
you eventually stop caring. i regret wasting my youth with video games.

i haven't enjoyed a single video game since a bad trip on dxm gave me persistent anxiety and dissociation

just fucking.... do drugs until one of them ruins you and video games won't be fun anymore

i have just lost interest, i just play programmings games that run on linux, like Shenzhen I/O.

>>61663361
>addicted to video games
>decide to quit cold turkey
>back up important documents and install debian
>works better than windows and can't play games anymore (wine is too much effort, fuck that)
>doing semi-productive stuff in my free time now

No regrets, fuck video games

>>61663361
you grow up and stop playing vidya

in all seriousness though, I haven't enjoyed a new release from a large developer since Civ 5. I haven't enjoyed an indie release since papers please. migrated to linux, stopped playing them, and I can't see what I used to like about vidya anymore.

I just lost motivation to play video games. They're too repetetive to hold my interest for long. Also, they are shit for telling engaging stories because they can't direct attention like movies and books do. That's said, there are still some interesting experiments like Stanley Parable (I would not consider it a game, though).

>>61667061
>bad trip on dxm
Holy shit, I didn't know that was even possible. How much did you do?

I played the HELL out of Doom back in the
90's. But my family was dirt poor and couldn't
afford much shit. Then I got a copy of Slackware
in '95 and I had a much more interesting "game"
to play with from then on.

>>61663361

I don't play games and I still won't use Loonics because its shit.

>>61663361
I just use Steam, I don't care much if the game is not available for Steam OS, it's not like I'm a kid and I need to play it at all costs

I do what along of other people due. I erased my last windows partition about a year ago. I am addicted to league of legends and it runs fine in wine. Osu runs great (better then native) in wine and any other games I own have linux versions or run in wine but there is not many other games. I play a lot of SMB3 but I have an NES for that. I do have win 7 installed to a VM in case of an emergency where windows is needed(I'm a collage student so never know what a crazy professor will want). I am planning to upgrade to a GPU passthrough enabled CPU and Mobo for better league performance but I am very happy so far with getting rid of windows.

I play old PC/Linux games and roguelikes (also effectively old games). And as long as emulators are made for Linux, that solves pretty much all of my admittedly little gaming needs.

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>>61664214
>The "culture" is disgusting
Most culture is disgusting.
>the consumerist tech illiteracy of the average gamer is disgusting
The illiteracy of the average person is disgusting.
>games are trash in general.
If they are, I was blinder to it when I was younger than I am now (and nostalgia is bullshit; don't fall for the "golden age" meme). Nevertheless, I find gaming somehow psychologically "necessary". I do less of it than I used to, and I do it with more niche and technical games than I used to, but even enjoying a nice AAA game gives me some subconscious nourishment that I feel like I need. Maybe it's the product of growing up playing games. Maybe it's the basic human need for recreation with shit that rewards the emotional and visual processors in the brain. While I'm playing, I feel like I'd rather be programming or doing something productive because I value that more than whatever the game is giving me. However, if all I do is programming without playing games, I begin to feel "worn" somehow. After gaming, even if I didn't feel like I particularly enjoyed it, I feel somehow refreshed, like after a night's sleep, and I can program more productively.

TL;DR: I think I'm addicted to electric soma lotuses.

>>61667739
>some subconscious nourishment that I feel like I need
Well, you can't exactly set out with your friends on adventures in the wilderness in most places anymore.

>>61667398
that's what i thought, and basically that's probably what fucked me over, i smoked cannabis because i thought i had no reason to worry on ~750mg coming down, i had actually done this before too
i knew i fucked up immediately and i was on a ride for the next 3 hours

i actually got visuals (never have i gotten them on dxm otherwise) but for the most part it was just like that feeling you get with sleep paralysis for 3 hours long and also with diminished thought capacity

felt like an eternity and i got a bunch of panic attacks after it and got addicted to benzos lmfao

>Did you just lose interest
Pretty much. I got my first ubuntu running when still middle school, got interested on open source shit since then. Thus, i got myself into liking programming more. iirc, moved to arch when highschool. Yes this is weird, I'm still playing with my clan every now and then, but Its only 1 or 2 matches. I just couldnt get that joy from gaming again.

>>61668792
I still like to play sudoku though.

>>61663361
Your issues arise from your outlook or your personality type. You seem to think things have to be one or another (binary) and that something is probably best. Your attraction to games is similar to this in that it baits you into 'winning' something.

I think you'll probably wrestle with trying to be exclusive in linux but you'll probably to back to windows because the idea that you can do both is completely foreign and too abstract. The esthetics of gaming hardware is geared towards attracting the person who needs to 'win'. I put win in quotes but because I don't see a gain but merely a cashcow to be exploited.

>>61663361
a lot of games support linux and you can dual boot for everything else

>>61669350
>this reply is valid on every /g/ thread
I want to make pasta out of this

>Yes, that's right. I switched from fun gaming to boring programming solely appease my ego when people ask what I do in my spare time

>>61669495
>from fun gaming
nigger half the anons in this thread said they don't find gaming fun or interesting

and they're right, games nowadays are fucking awful

>>61663361
Well in highscool around junior year I got really addicted to gaming, especially call of duty, spent like $1400 on just the desktop alone. When senior year came around I noticed that instead of being out Friday nights partying at hotel parties trying to get my dick sucked (I am still puzzled how anyone our age was able to rent a hotel room) I was in my room playing video games. So I sold my setup and bought a cheap ass laptop, thinkpad x120e most worthwhile $300 I ever spent. Haven't touched Gaymes since. Made the switch over to ubuntu for a few years and then switched to Debian.
Unironically I mean this without trying to sound like a memester, if you're over the age of 16 and you still spend a majority of your time playing video games and you thought about quitting, you definitely need to stop. Sell your gaming shit, buy a laptop that you can't play games on.

>>61669658
Did hotel parties work out better for you after that?

>>61663517
Well done.

>>61663361
when I was exclusively on Linux, I mostly just emulated
not like I ever had any kind of machine for running PC games
only thing I missed was Halo CE, which supposedly would have worked in Wine, but I never got it to back then
actual dumb shit: ended up running a lot of emulators in Wine because a lot of the native Linux ports fucking sucked

this was like 7-8 years ago at this point though
although to this day, I still run MAME in Wine because I get like double the performance vs a native MAME build

>>61669686
I was going to them even with the gaming but I was missing out on most of them, not just hotel parties but house parties. Some fun times were had partying at those hotel rooms and at people's homes.

The point really is that if you game and you thought about quitting, it's most likely time for you to quit. I understand some people love gaming but those aren't the people making "how do I stop gaming" threads. Then you get a bunch of gaymur faggots coming in here just spreading their cancer around.

>>61663361
windows is technically free
just use a vm or another pc for games

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>>61665562
>using debian or its derivatives

VM with gpu passthrough

>>61663498
England is my city.

>>61664994
What the fuck are you talking about? I've been using Steam on Fedora for years. Your comment doesn't even have any relevance to the comment you're replying to.

>>61670300
>Works on my machine™

99% of the games I like just work on Linux. Roguelikes, chess variants, shit like that. There are a few I hated to give up like SS13, but privacy matters more to me than some games. I can always find new games to play, and it isn't worth the sacrifice.

>>61663361
I originally had linux on a shit netbook that couldn't play games anyway. Eventually I got sick of PC games altogether and decided to do a cut-and-dry break by going full-linux.

I haven't had windows installed on any of my machines in almost six years, with the exception of an XP partition I had briefly to play 2 games for about a week that wouldn't work in wine.

I play EvE now so I really don't know if I am any better off, but if I was still running Windows I would probably still play a lot more games than I do now.

I learned later as well that the netbook wasn't going to be a limitation since it ran games like OpenTTD and UnReal World without a sweat, hahah.

>>61669658
I tried this once for a little less than a year, but I ended up spending all my time playing nethack instead.

>>61663361
buy PS4Pro
problem solved

>>61663361
Meh I still play multiplayer FPS on Linux

>>61663361
I dualboot Linux and Win

Games I play are offline or LAN so I don't give Win access to the internet. Download everything through Linux only.

Telemetry get fucked.

>>61664214
you're just stuck in the past


when books were introduced, scholars complained it would make people retarded, by allowing them to not remember information. I don't even need to talk about how much impact the written language has had on progress.

It's easy. Once you're older and matured enough, you'll realise your own responsibilities or get busy enough you'll stop playing games without you realising it yourself. At that point it doesn't even matter to you what OS you're running.

For me it's a mixed thing. At times I will not have any occupations and it turns into either non productive shit or non productive shit. For me distro hopping and fiddling is kind of like a game in itself, because I spent quite some time, I find it rather entertaining and in the end there's a lot of useless shit.

So regarding games, I have a ton of them. If I use Steam on a linux distro I will gather maybe 120 of my 310 games. But that's not the point, I can easily choose to play something that is available to me if I want to play anything. The number of games that you have access to exclusively on Windows is rather small when you consider more platforms than PC games that don't run on linux, if that makes any sense.

So at some point I fire up emulators or stuff like that. I may want to play something like Deus Ex MD at the time it came out, but that's not always the case and I don't have as much time to give a shit. The games I find most replayable are often games I can easily emulate even on a handheld.

That said, I bought my PC for the newest games a few years ago, so I had that goal in mind back then. I wanted to play Fallout 4 at a decent framerate with decent graphics. I can do that now, and in the end I didn't spend more than 5 hours of that, so I consider that it's not a necessity. I think that the next time I have to actually upgrade my PC I will go for something that is cheap, efficient and produces low temperatures, but doesn't give me any trouble with any tasks that are not "running the newest games" so to speak. What I want these days, much more than anything else, is stability. And I found that being able to run fancy games doesn't really mean you're going to be able to run fancy desktops all that well.

>>61663361
Most games made for windows only are made by shit tier companies using shit engines like unity.
Both steam and gog have numerous libraries for linux. This includes every game valve has ever made, L4D2, payday, most of the better made indie games etc.
The only noteworthy companies that don't release are Bethesda (IMO all they really produce now is same structure open worlds just with different skyboxes), Blizzard and CD PROJEKT RED (arrogant pricks).
Out of these the only game I unironically miss is diablo

>>61665210
To be completely fair, a good 90% of these games are going to be at a reasonably good quality.
On windows the number may be a lot higher, but you get shit like fidget spinner simulator, toilet tetris etc.
In this regard linux acts as the curation steam always needed

>>61670025
this, I don't use windows much unless I need to fire up a game or the rare occasion where I need to use a program that only works with windows.
Works pretty well with negligible performance penalty on the CPU, my rig performs well enough in a VM with GPU passthrough to play around with 4K and VR.
Took me a while but I figured out how to write a script to pass my dedicated GPU back the host OS so it can be easily used for applications that would benefit from it like MPV post processing or games when not using the VM.
Too bad the script logs you out of your session, there is no other way on Xorg until wayland eventually introduces GPU hot swapping as a feature.

>>61664994
The only distro I haven't managed to get steam working on is Gentoo because of weird masking/ conflicting package issues.

>>61663361
Using wine makes me feeling kinda dirty same for mono.
I have a seperate Windows Pc without internet connection that i sometimes power up to play vyda with my gf.
When im alone i never power it on.

>>61663361
Surprisingly I never found any interest in gaming.
Back in highschool I played with friends but more because of them and not the games. After that I never touched gaming, just doesnt do it for me

There's an issue I always have with Linux and it's not exactly the compatibility with games. It's how it handles some controllers.

I have a sixaxis here that I've been using for generations. If I want to use it on Windows I have to install some third party software (SCP server) but really, that's all it takes, an installer. It recognizes the controller as a 360 gamepad and that's that, no trouble, no configuration needed, bluetooth just works (problem is, that adapter will -only- work with that gamepad sadly) and there's no software that has troubles with it that wouldn't have trouble with the official controller.

On macOS, it's slightly different. There's no need for third party software until there's some random game that doesn't like generic gamepads, but for the most part it still works rather fine. There's some old fairly lightweight software by some weeb that solves that, "Enjoyable". Pretty easy to use as well.

Then I get to linux and the whole thing changes. It recognizes the gamepad as a generic pad, but some games have even more trouble than they would on macOS, not recognizing the d-pad, recognizing some buttons as directional buttons, it's a whole mess. The only solution I found for it was to use xboxdrv with the gamepad always plugged in and without pairing the controller, because over bluetooth it's just not working for me following the instructions in the arch wiki. And I go back to some other software such as RetroArch, and I have to switch input drivers because it detects 3 different gamepads in one.

I find this much more of a problem than game compatibility, because there's a fuckton of games I can enjoy on linux anyways. I never understood either why some people say "my ps3 gamepad just works on linux, and I have to set it up elsewhere" when this happens.

>>61663361
I lost interest mostly. The choice was between continuing to use Linux, or go back to the shitshow they call windows. I dual booted for a while, but using windows became too much of a hassle. I still play TF2 and Insurgency every now and then though, those work fine on Linux.

>>61664712
I love civ5 (with the extensions, mind you) for what it is, which is an incredibly elegant, spartan game whose core concepts are just so irresistably good, but I think it's wrong of you to not consider the other civ games in the franchise; because a game like civ2 or civ4 is most certainly not comparable to civ5. So civ5 shouldn't be considered in terms of the civ series. If you do that, and treat civ5 as the pinnacle of the series, it misrepresents the rest of the civ series. They're just so fundamentally different.

At the very least, you have to acknowledge SMAC. It's not a good game. It's so easy to cheese. But it's a classic. It represents all the civ series had to offer, and it also represented the very last games who directly owe their merit to the Lucasfilm games.

I didn't let go of gaming, I just do it on Linux now.

>>61663361
Using Linux will help you stop playing useless games. You will get better at studying and working.

>>61663361

Already played games that run in wine ( luckily ) and knew some games that have free software clones. Now playing almost only Wesnoth. I weren't into FPSs or modern games which require hardware anyway. I can play skyrim on my little brother's computer when I want to, but that's like a week on a yearly basis.

>>61663361
>People who exclusivity use Linux, how did you let go of PC gaming for good?
I use wine if the game doesn't support Linux. No need to let go of anything.

>>61663361
i just play older games and rom hacks on an emulator nowadays. it's what i like doing anyways

>>61664672
>>/v/
Stob this.

>>61664517
>unironic shitpost
How do you even achieve such a feat?

>>61669438
Your issues arise from your outlook or your personality type. You seem to think things have to be one or another (binary) and that something is probably best. Your attraction to games is similar to this in that it baits you into 'winning' something.

I think you'll probably wrestle with trying to be exclusive in linux but you'll probably to back to windows because the idea that you can do both is completely foreign and too abstract. The esthetics of gaming hardware is geared towards attracting the person who needs to 'win'. I put win in quotes but because I don't see a gain but merely a cashcow to be exploited.

>>61672825
>muh progress
Go back to your mudhut book-reader.

>>61663361
>what is gpu passthrough with qemu and synergy

>>61663414
same

>>61663361
I suck at videogames, so I don't miss them much.
The ones I actually liked, had a clone on Linux, and are pretty decent.

>>61663414
exactly the same

>>61676059
A chore?

Seriously, last time I set that shit up I just thought of it as being an actual chore. Having 2 GPUs and having to deal with shared peripherals like that. I'd rather dual boot, specially considering that integrated graphics are not that good enough for some daily non-gaming tasks.

Gaming is for children

>>61663361
I play boardgames with my friends instead. A lot more fun, introduced me to many cool people. I wish I had dropped videogames earlier.

>>61663361
There is a fuckton of games running on GNU/Linux

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>anon says no games on linux
>tfw gaming on linux consumed a whole year of my neet life

>>61663361
Most games run fine in WINE or under emulation, and Steam runs on Linux now.

But games are shit these days, not fun any more, too much emphasis on graphics and little on storytelling, gameplay, or novelty. Everything new has a hollow potemkin village feel to it.

Basically Dwarf Fortress is enough to keep me happy.

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>>61663361
>exclusively use Linux

>>61663361
Most games I like run natively on Steam (Cities Skyline, Hitman) so I can't say I'm losing much.

>>61679466
Because Windows sucks ass, OS X is getting to that point, and BSD doesn't have what he is looking for?

After I switched laptops from shitty HP with AMD (nothing against AMD, but laptop was shit) and got myself Dell with Intel Graphics, I got rid of windows completely. A lot of good games that I play has been ported to Linux (Dota, TF2, Stardew Valley and a lot of other indie shit), and some others can be launched with Wine extremely easily (Battlerite, UT2004, Worms Armageddon, etc.). Some other require time and patience, but final result can be quite good (LoL, Blizzard games). But I don't really play a lot of games - if you like Overwatch and AAA titles, you can either dual-boot, OR get CPU with integrated graphics and use your GPU with Windows in VM (google gpu passthrough) - unless you are using laptop.

>>61663361
I spent $1200 building a gayming computer in high school and now the only thing it's good for is quickly rendering fuckhuge media files.

I've played video games like twice since I started taking my life seriously.

>>61669800
Right, I agree, getting one's dick sucked is far better than most any game.

>>61670629
>EvE
>any better off
You'll become a psychopath within 5 years, or your money back.

>>61675987
Sorry, should clarify only to the OP.

>>61676439
>I play boardgames with my friends instead. A lot more fun, introduced me to many cool people. I wish I had dropped videogames earlier.
This anon is a pro.

>>61663361
Originally I didn't wanted waste time to game anyway, but then I realized most games can be played on WINE and played again.

>>61674710
Fucking this. I love SMAC.