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LCA: Linux gaming at last

LCA: Linux gaming at last

Posted Feb 13, 2013 19:54 UTC (Wed) by anholt (guest, #52292)
In reply to: LCA: Linux gaming at last by mgedmin
Parent article: LCA: Linux gaming at last

Very cool! Of course, it doesn't get the stuff outside of debian (steam, HIB), but here's what I managed to get out of it for "games people are using", most popular first:

2231 gnuchess 44230 1890 35622 6677 41 (Oliver Korff)
2810 aisleriot 15285 1187 10572 3525 1 (Josselin Mouette)
2857 yakuake 2305 1145 1047 113 0 (Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez)
3390 mahjongg 15024 755 10618 3466 185 (Josselin Mouette)
3424 kpat 7550 738 6137 669 6 (Debian Qt/kde Maintainers)
3604 gnome-sudoku 15110 658 10807 3644 1 (Josselin Mouette)
3628 chromium-bsu 1638 647 835 156 0 (Debian Games Team)
3669 gnomine 15078 633 10814 3629 2 (Josselin Mouette)
3771 glchess 14897 590 10799 3506 2 (Josselin Mouette)
3789 blinken 6667 581 5651 432 3 (Debian Qt/kde Maintainers)
3810 gnibbles 14731 574 10652 3503 2 (Josselin Mouette)
3825 lightsoff 14069 569 10014 3485 1 (Josselin Mouette)
3859 glines 14795 557 10723 3513 2 (Josselin Mouette)
3896 khangman 6644 548 5644 450 2 (Debian Qt/kde Maintainers)
3922 quadrapassel 14768 540 10696 3530 2 (Josselin Mouette)
3941 kanagram 6633 534 5648 448 3 (Debian Qt/kde Maintainers)
3955 gnect 14814 531 10752 3529 2 (Josselin Mouette)

If I try to filter for things I know of as being "GL games":

2857 yakuake 2305 1145 1047 113 0 (Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez)
3628 chromium-bsu 1638 647 835 156 0 (Debian Games Team)
3771 glchess 14897 590 10799 3506 2 (Josselin Mouette)
4574 supertuxkart 1847 377 1331 139 0 (Debian Games Team)
5285 openarena-data 1354 273 925 141 15 (Debian Games Team)
5466 extremetuxracer 2231 251 1859 120 1 (Debian Games Team)
5554 wesnoth-1.10-core 1200 246 831 122 1 (Debian Games Team)
7056 torcs 1142 142 934 66 0 (Rudy Godoy)
7157 nexuiz 842 137 647 56 2 (Debian Games Team)
7208 0ad 759 134 535 90 0 (Debian Games Team)
7446 warzone2100 859 125 685 47 2 (Debian Games Team)
29 sauerbraten 546 103 419 23 1 (Debian Games Team)
8830 bzflag-client 720 83 592 45 0 (Tim Riker)
9497 gl-117 500 71 396 32 1 (Cédric Delfosse)
9077 billard-gl 648 78 529 40 1 (Debian Games Team)
9562 foobillard 619 70 513 35 1 (Debian Games Team)
31 assaultcube 261 68 169 24 0 (Debian Games Team)
...

It's interesting to see the long tail of games being run. I'd be interested in some of the time-spent information you get out of steam, and whether this is just 68 people having run all these games for testing or if many people are playing different stuff, but it's at least more information than I thought we had. It'll help me balance priorities of bugs among these games.

None of this GL stuff is as popular as solitaire, though.


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LCA: Linux gaming at last

Posted Feb 13, 2013 20:03 UTC (Wed) by andrel (subscriber, #5166) [Link]

There is also Ubuntu Popcon which seemingly has a larger pool of contributors.

LCA: Linux gaming at last

Posted Feb 14, 2013 11:15 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

In your list you have 'yakuake'... This is not a game but a terminal emulator ;)

LCA: Linux gaming at last

Posted Feb 14, 2013 16:22 UTC (Thu) by anholt (guest, #52292) [Link]

Oh, right. I remember hearing about that long ago and thinking... quake-style terminal emulator? Why is quake's terminal particularly interesting?

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