It looked for a little while there two years ago that gaming on Linux was finally beginning to take off, mostly thanks to Valve. That push seems to quickly be evaporating. Valve's latest Steam statistics shows that usage of both Linux and MacOS X on Steam is declining, while Windows usage is actually gaining. Linux usage on Steam is down to 0.94% from 1.05% last month, while Windows usage is up to a whopping 95.81%. Was that push for SteamOS in particular and gaming on Linux in general just all smoke?
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Thursday May 28 2015, @03:44AM
Yup, the intro of Linux to GoG was a big deal for me. There was for a while a selection of indie games that were available on GoG DRM free for windows and mac... or available on Steam (with "DRM"*) for Linux.
So for a while I had to choose between DRM free, or support for Linux; and that was annoying. Now GoG gives me both. So if its on GoG that's where I prefer to buy it.
* -- Many of the indie games without DRM on GoG -- the steam versions are often DRM free as well; and will often (but not always) run just fine without steam; however that's a technicality; and buying on steam still supports the DRM**.
** -- although to be fair, Steam DRM is the least offensive DRM system I've used. But its still DRM, and it still gets in my way in places where it shouldn't.*** But overall, given the sale prices; I'm happy with the tradeoff.
*** - Locking my entire library out on other PCs just because one game is in use on one PC -- is beyond annoying. In a home with multiple PCs, and multiple kids, Steam library management is annoying. I'm fine buying 3 copies of Borderlands 2 to play all together... but I shouldn't need 3 copies of a single player game just so my son can play it while I'm playing something else; just because they are in the same library.