To be a good gaming platform, in my opinion Linux have to do some of this,
1. Good driver support from manufacturer either OSS or binary. Don't get me wrong, I know why we need OSS drivers but if you have to play games, the card have to get blessing from its godfathers. Also manufacturer also have to think their target audience is gamers not Professional designers or server admins.
2. Backward compatibility, the amount of troubles I got for running old/new binary software or games is not worth for a desktop gamer. I know how to solve library problems, when a game complain some libxyz.so.3 not found, all you have to do is make a link to libxyz.so.10 to libxyz.so.3 . But I can't recommend this to my gamer friends who don't have any idea what the heck libxyz is. Companies don't maintain their code usually for much long but the binary games are sold for long time. Valve/Stream has a good chance for fixing this; if they use local libraries for games then using system libraries then blob's should work well.
3. Gamers , professional, general public and hobbies are not same material. Give each of them some credits. Many linux softwares are either for hobbies or for some tech hackers. Now canoncial targeting general public. To be gaming machine, the games should also be targeted.
It's all my personal opinions, I think of using Linuxes for last 5 years and recommending a lot of Windows users. And being a occasional gamer.
1. Good driver support from manufacturer either OSS or binary. Don't get me wrong, I know why we need OSS drivers but if you have to play games, the card have to get blessing from its godfathers. Also manufacturer also have to think their target audience is gamers not Professional designers or server admins.
2. Backward compatibility, the amount of troubles I got for running old/new binary software or games is not worth for a desktop gamer. I know how to solve library problems, when a game complain some libxyz.so.3 not found, all you have to do is make a link to libxyz.so.10 to libxyz.so.3 . But I can't recommend this to my gamer friends who don't have any idea what the heck libxyz is. Companies don't maintain their code usually for much long but the binary games are sold for long time. Valve/Stream has a good chance for fixing this; if they use local libraries for games then using system libraries then blob's should work well.
3. Gamers , professional, general public and hobbies are not same material. Give each of them some credits. Many linux softwares are either for hobbies or for some tech hackers. Now canoncial targeting general public. To be gaming machine, the games should also be targeted.
It's all my personal opinions, I think of using Linuxes for last 5 years and recommending a lot of Windows users. And being a occasional gamer.
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