Obviously nobody in their right mind is using BSD for gaming but I do wonder how it would show up

I heard there was a bsd port of steam at some point and some people got the Linux build working on it. I have to assume the Linux build would probably report as Linux unless it has some mechanism to determine operating system besides it being hard coded

Having 1% of my playtime be on BSD seems like a pretty good meme to me

  • 0x4E4FEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think many of the BSD folks are interested in gaming… hence, the lack of a BSD port.

    I really have no idea what they take out of contributing to BSD, considering the permissive license. I know what I take out of it (storage, firewalls, etc.), but for them? It’s still a mystery to me.

    • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
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      6 months ago

      Probably the same thing a lot of people myself included take out of Linux

      It’s far nicer to use than windows if you’re technical, and also it’s different

      • 0x4E4FEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I get that, but having a permissive license is what would most definitely turn me off about contributing to the project.

        And I also read somewhere (don’t know if this is true or not) that a large portion of BSD devs actually use Macs as their daily drivers.

        • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
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          6 months ago

          Doesn’t surprise me, I don’t think they really expected it to be used on the desktop

          • 0x4E4FEnglish
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            6 months ago

            That would kill my enthusiasm to be honest… but whatever, each to his own 🤷.