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posted by martyb on Friday April 05 2019, @04:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the drm-as-the-elephant-in-the-room dept.

Depending on how it is measured, the market share for gaming on GNU/Linux is less than 1%. Jason Evangelho writes at Forbes about what is holding back gaming on GNU/Linux. He outlines three problem areas. First, there is inconsistency across the distros in how hardware — especially the graphics card — is dealt with. Second, major titles continue to ban the accounts of those who join from GNU/Linux hosts. Lastly, he figures that the gamers need to pull behind a single distro and get support for just that one distro because vendors are using the existence of multiple distros as an excuse to support none of them.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Dr Spin on Friday April 05 2019, @07:55PM (1 child)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Friday April 05 2019, @07:55PM (#825086)

    Linux being only 1% of Steam users - Linux only has 2% market share
    I am not sure that there is much in the way of valid data anyway. Lots of homes have a PC or three sitting in a corner, used once or twice
    a year. When people try to use them next, and find they have to sign up to "Windows as a shitstorm (I mean service)" they will phone
    their neighbour "Ned the Nerd" ...

    Pleb "The PC wont work"
    Ned powers it up, and it tries to phone home. The wifi is sub standard, and MS registration servers claim it is a fake copy of Windows 6.73.
    Ned "Do you want to pay, do email and write stuff, or play games?"
    Pleb "Yes"
    Ned "you want to pay and play games? or not pay and just do email and watch youtube?"
    Pleb "Just do email and stuff!"
    Pleb "yes"
    Ned "I can put Linux on it. It will do internet stuff, but the only game will be Tux Racer"
    Pleb "Can I watch Youtube (and pornhub)?"
    Ned "Yes"
    Pleb "do what you have to"

    Ned brings out USB stick, and 40 mins later, all is fine.

    Maybe not in America, but who in other countries is going to pay MS? Cracked versions of Windows 7 may be easy to get in 3rd world countries,
    but bit rot is killing them off, and there are more Neds with every year.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @08:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @08:50PM (#825112)

    Maybe not in America, but who in other countries is going to pay MS?

    ODMs bundle windows with vendor boxes along with adware/shareware that actually reduces the total price of the machine. At least that's the case for both Dell and Lenovo.