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posted by janrinok on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the wheeee! dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Thursday May 28 2015, @02:56PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday May 28 2015, @02:56PM (#189102) Journal

    Yeah I used to have a dedicated Windows box for gaming. Until about a month ago I decided it was time to dust the thing off and repurpose it as a file server and media center. The video card is almost a decade old and certainly wasn't a high-end card even back then, so that tells you how much I actually cared about the thing...I basically never even booted it up, because half the games I wanted to run on it are Windows games that no longer run on Windows (but work perfectly well in Wine!); the other half still works on Windows...but work fine in Wine too. So why even bother going through the hassle of booting up a dedicated Windows box?

    The funny thing is, now that it's running Linux with Steam and some emulators and some native games and great plug-and-play gamepad support (using some old PS2 gamepads)...NOW I actually want to upgrade the hardware. Ten years running Windows and I never found much to do with it that system; the day I installed Linux suddenly it looks like it has a hell of a lot of potential -- for gaming! :)

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