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 HiThere on Thursday May 28 2015, @07:19PM
There have always been examples of DRM, well at least since the Apple ][+, but I've usually avoided the ones that had it in favor of the others. (The only exception is "Wizardy: Proving grounds of the Mad Overlord"...and even there I managed to make backup copies.)
FWIW, I dislike DRM enough, and insist on backups enough, that I think I've spent more on copying programs than on DRMed main programs. (Some of the copy programs were DRMed, but I'm not counting them as such, as my only need for them was to work around the DRM. And a year later they wouldn't work on the new versions even if they still worked. So they were inherently temporary.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.