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Steam is the world's largest digital game distribution platform, supporting all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux or SteamOS, Valve's own distribution derived from the acclaimed Debian GNU/Linux OS.
[...] There are approximately 6,500 titles in the Steam library. Almost all of them are being supported on the Microsoft Windows platform, a little over 2,300 have support for the Mac OS X operating system, and 1,500 titles offer support for Valve's SteamOS and any other GNU/Linux distribution out there.
[...] Even more good news: [...] Many other games will have support for the Linux platform soon, mainly because Valve will finally release its Steam Machines gaming console / personal computer in November, which will be powered by the company's Debian-based SteamOS GNU/Linux operating system.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday September 21 2015, @08:31PM
Even though:
A. I use linux all the time for my webserver
B. I am totally competent with it
C. Gaming is plentiful on linux
D. Microsoft has been making using windows as gigantic a pain in the ass to use as possible
I still don't use linux for day-to-day stuff. I can give no justification for this, but it's true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21 2015, @08:43PM
I use Linux all the time but you can call it Android if you want.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Monday September 21 2015, @09:33PM
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(Score: 1) by elixir on Tuesday September 22 2015, @12:16AM
I personally do not consider android to be a form of Linux. Sure it uses the Linux kernel, but it goes against everything that Linux and UNIX stands for.
I sit here strong running either Slackware or LinuxBBQ on all of my machines. From day-to-day tasks, to homework from my university, to gaming, I use GNU/Linux for it all.
I live just fine in an apartment with no windows or apples :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @01:16AM
I see Android as a security stripped, dumbed down version of Linux. Kind of what Windows stands for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @03:22AM
And no significant other?
(Score: 2, Touché) by elixir on Tuesday September 22 2015, @06:13AM
Indeed, with a significant other. My wife chooses to run GNU/Linux as well.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Gravis on Monday September 21 2015, @08:46PM
Maybe you're just super retarded. [tumblr.com] :P
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Refugee from beyond on Monday September 21 2015, @09:19PM
It is time then.
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday September 21 2015, @09:22PM
but but but but my complacency!
(Score: 4, Informative) by Gaaark on Monday September 21 2015, @11:48PM
Get off your 'but' and do it! ;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday September 21 2015, @10:31PM
Stockholm syndrome.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @12:44AM
I still don't use linux for day-to-day stuff. I can give no justification for this, but it's true.
I use both. There is 0 reason not to. I use my OSs to start other programs. That is why it is not important to you. You do the same. But you have others trying to convince you 'only one OS is needed'. I need an OS to start programs. Thats it. If windows runs the programs I use then I use it. If linux/bsd/osx have programs I need, guess what I use?... Do not worry about the 'true believers'. Just keep doing what you are doing. There is no reason for you to feel guilty.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @03:51AM
There was a time when my hard drive died and I used Ubuntu from a flash drive while I was waiting on a new hard drive to come. It took me 2 or 3 weeks after receiving the new drive to actually get around to installing it and going back to Windows.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday September 22 2015, @09:25AM
I had a similar experience. A year later that machine was still on Linux and I could find little reason to switch.
However, my employer bought me a Windows laptop for work which was vastly overpowered and had a gaming graphics card in it (and an overclock button - obviously a serious business machine!). I gamed on Windows but brought things like Open/LibreOffice over instead of MS Office and so on. I ran that setup for five years. When it broke, I just booted up the old Linux machine and carried on.
Linux is a perfectly viable OS for almost every use. Gaming is a struggle, but Valve are working on that more than anyone else.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Tuesday September 22 2015, @10:03AM
I find myself in the same situation.
I have a unix-like workstation at work with a tiling window manager at work for coding, and it's like the best setup I've ever had for work.
OTOH my home pc usage pattern is substantially different, so I find it comfortable to use a "traditional" window manager on MS Windows. I probably use the commandline just for connecting to the raspberry and nothing else. I just can't get myself to go through all the formatting and drivers and everything.
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