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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.> for many people, there is no viable alternative (e.g. gamers).There's an increasing feeling that Linux is getting there for gamers too. There are already mainstream narratives [0] that Linux may be better for gaming than Windows!
[0] E.g. https://youtu.be/6T_-HMkgxt0
⬐ zimpenfish> There's an increasing feeling that Linux is getting there for gamers too.True, I definitely see a lot more of the things offered by people like itch.io or Humble Bundle having a Linux option.
⬐ aegis4244My 18 year old step-son does not care about OSS, or Linux. Yesterday his just received a new laptop. He said, "well, I'm going to install Linux on it, you know, for games". By which he means minecraft, which ran much better on Linux than on the native windows 10 his last laptop came with. Higher fps, more terrain loaded....yadayada ...... I shot soda out my nose.
⬐ musicaleNot really.But I'm glad that Steam and WINE exist.
⬐ linsomniacBack in 1998, a group of my friends and I all built "Celeron 300A Dual CPU" boxes, to, among other things, play Starcraft under WINE.At the time, with a little bit of PCB modification, you could modify the relatively inexpensive 300A CPUs ($150 each IIRC), and get them to run in dual socket boards at 450MHz. I recall the similar CPU rated for 450MHz dual socket being $500 or $1000 each.
Windows, at the time, had no ability to run on multi-processor machines, where Linux had pretty good support for it already.
So one could run StarCraft under WINE under Linux, spread out some different tasks like graphics from the body of the game engine, and run the game significantly faster under Linux than under Windows.