Requesting Games For Linux Do you want them?

Souness said:
Funny that SteamOS runs very few of Steam games :D
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That's not Valves fault. That's other developers fault. The only Valve game I have that doesn't run on Linux is L4D2.

There's less than 4000 games on Steam. 700 of those run on Linux. That's nearly a quarter of the catalogue.
 
Archeum said:
Linux has no place in mainstream gaming. Agree with the above.
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Mainstream. I agree. Then again 'mainstream' people don't game via PC. I don't hate microsoft but then again I don't think they do a great job on the PC as a game platform like they did in the 90's. Steve Ballmer, do you really think he gave a **** about developing the PC as an outright gaming platform?
 
Linux quite obviously has a place in mainstream gaming. Playstation 3 and 4 use *BSD forks as their operating systems. The difficulty in porting was due to architecture on the PS3 (being a Cell CPU). But the PS4 is x86-*. Those are "mainstream" machines running FOSS.

To say it doesn't have a place ignores the rapid growth in just the last year alone of the number of games that have popped up which are native on Linux (not just on Steam, but across mobile devices too). But if you're not interested in Linux, you can be forgiven for not knowing about it.

Valve has done a great job in showing that Linux is simply a better platform for developing and running games on. And that FOSS like OpenGL can even outperform DirectX on Windows.
 
smogsy, did you really expect to get useful posts on the subject from the majority of OCUK forum dwellers. ;)

What was you thinking....

Side note, may have been better in the linux section, I know it's game related but would have stopped "some" of the retarded comments
 
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