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Steam For Linux Last Month Showed A Slight Rise In Usage
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostAs long as there are no linux exclusives, that isn't exactly easy to do. Right now, native linux support is simply a convenience to already existing linux gamers, which there were never much of to begin with. Also, Nvidia overall has better performance on linux than Windows.
The Steam Machine however provides us an out until we finally reach software parity in that console gamers do not have the same back-catalog requirement (in that they don't have a massive set of games on steam that then won't be available under linux), and thus will allow linux to gain the critical mass in gaming that it needs, at that point exclusives might work to help get the gaming population to switch over however anything before that would be temporary at best. From there it'll be a question of other critical apps (such as MS Office) as to whether the switch can occur for the rest of the population, at which point OEMs would need to start seriously offering some flavour of linux in order for there to be any success on that front. Just pulling numbers out of my ass based upon what I've seen of things I'm guessing we're still maybe 5 years off from that point.
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I wonder if these statistics include people running the Windows Steam client under wine. I have incredibly good success running all my big title Steam games under linux (except DayZ) with decent performance. This is with the CSMT patches which make a massive playability difference for a majority of my games. I'm actually able to play CS:GO through wine and play competitively ... across triple monitors ( 5760x1200 ).
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Originally posted by FourDMusic View PostYear of Linux. Callin' it.
NV won't rest on its laurels either. They are probably working on their own kernel patch to match AMD. NV might also be working on a new OGL extension to multithread the graphics in order to trump AMD.
Good things ahead I think.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostWindows is a better gaming platform, the drivers are more stable, the performance is better, there are more games, and it have more stuff that gamers care about such as Skype, Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, etc which doesn't exist for Linux or are of subpar quality.
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Originally posted by zimano View PostNot sure about the others but Skype on Linux is loads nicer than it is on Windows. The Windows version takes up loads of screen space and is ugly.
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Originally posted by zimano View PostNot sure about the others but Skype on Linux is loads nicer than it is on Windows. The Windows version takes up loads of screen space and is ugly.
I also had some problems webcamming with my girlfriend.
Also when playing web cam in fullscreen, it lags and is slow.
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