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The article is correctThe article is correctPosted Mar 31, 2012 7:38 UTC (Sat) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136)In reply to: The article is correct by danieldk Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist) There are many problems with Macs after upgrades. It's not hard to find. I will be no surprised if you are safer with (K)Ubuntu. Linux lost the desktop wars.Nope, it didn't. It already won, because it's one of the three the most important desktops. Did you just missed the newest Phoronix article about STEAM coming to Linux? :) Games are very important part of the desktops and with STEAM Linux will become stronger than ever.
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The article is correct Posted Mar 31, 2012 8:05 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Maybe you are kidding, but Steam on Linux is a recurring rumour with no basis in fact that I can see. Even if it does come to Linux, it would only matter if the games that it manages are also ported. I used to play some commercial 3D games on Linux under WINE but it was quite painful so I gave up and just dual-boot into Windows now.
The article is correct Posted Mar 31, 2012 11:38 UTC (Sat) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804) [Link] I've used Wine and Crossover for gaming with pretty good results, the main problem is losing at least half the raw performance of my video card. Fortunately they're so overpowered these days games are still playable. As for Linux support, why else would Gabe want to hire someone with Linux driver experience to improve performance.
The article is correct Posted Mar 31, 2012 12:20 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Interesting - would be good if Valve's games are ported, or even better if their Source engine is ported, but it won't have a huge effect on the overall market.
Perhaps they will do a cloud gaming service, similar to http://onlive.com - using Linux for Source engine game servers would let them reduce their costs somewhat, but many games wouldn't run on Linux as their engines are tied to Windows, so it's not clear that's a winning strategy.
Another Linux gaming option is the Gaikai cloud gaming service, which has a Java applet client and does work fine on my Linux box. Some pros and cons compared to OnLive, but it is one option to play a wide range of Windows games with almost no setup hassles.
I used to use Crossover Games as well, but it was quite a faff.
The article is correct Posted Mar 31, 2012 12:26 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
In fact, OnLive Desktop is also interesting as a low cost way of running Windows apps in the cloud from a Linux desktop, tablet, etc. Or at least the concept is - they don't support Linux currently, but being able to easily run Windows desktop apps in the cloud would be great for consumers who just have one or two Windows apps they need, and can easily push them into the cloud without setting up their own Citrix type server.
The article is correct Posted Mar 31, 2012 14:03 UTC (Sat) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link] Interesting - would be good if Valve's games are ported, or even better if their Source engine is ported, but it won't have a huge effect on the overall market.It will have a huge effect on the market share, because every game that runs on OS X will run on Linux as well. OS X will become non relevant and Linux will become much more valuable player and this will bring new software and increase its popularity further. Imagine free, rock solid and robust platform with dozens of great Open Source applications (and Steam) that is supported for five years (KUbuntu). This sounds exciting.
The article is correct Posted Mar 31, 2012 13:01 UTC (Sat) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]
If someone's kidding here it's Gabe from Valve:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MT...
I'm also doing a dual boot for now, because I want full performance.
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