• sickmatter
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    1 year ago

    Microsoft owns most gaming PCs, too, with Windows which is increasingly ad-ridden. The existence of some Linux-based alternatives is still a small percentage compared to Microsoft’s dominance here.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, they really ought to be getting cracked down upon by governments for their monopoly on desktop computing.

      Simply opening directX would solve a lot of problems with gaming.

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        1 year ago

        Gaming on Linux is pretty good nowadays, most problems you are going to encounter is due to some anti cheat

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      1 year ago

      Almost every game I’ve tried to run on steam on linux, has worked. (though tbf, I don’t play multiplayer games).

      It really is worth at least giving it a try nowadays. You might be surprised

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        1 year ago

        I agree in principle. I’ve used Wine for games for a long time. Popular games usually worked even 15 years ago.