Is this a viable gaming platform yet?

Is this a viable gaming platform yet?

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Only if you a wagecuck

Depends on what you play

If you suck corporate cock by preordering newest AAA platforms to get more microtransactions, then no

If you play games that are not made by corporate money-miling machine, indies or older games, then yes.

there are tons of video games for loonix

I would switch to linux full time if wine could run dx11 games correct. All i want is to play ffxiv. I don't play other games anymore.

I tried debian testing and it was alright. Much better than shitty win10.
I really liked that package installer thing.
Like you go there search the name and press install. It automatically installs all things without 9999 of stupid prompts. The only thing i didn't like in lunix is that audio alsa vs pulse shit. I had really shitty cracking sound in skype.

Viable? Definitely, hundreds of games available, even some AAA ones.

Better than Windows? NO, and don't you fucking ask again for another decade you mouth breather piece of autistic shit.

Now archive this fucking thread.

sage

Depends by how much time you spend gaming.

Yes, Android is Linux :^^)

lol he mad

tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/
RTFM

It does depend on your gaming habits, but its entirely possible to use GNU/Linux for gaming.
If you're the type of gamer who obsesses over a few games for years at a time, you're nervous about Windows 10, and you have an AMD card and you want good drivers then you should definitely consider switching.

lgdb.org/

Has a list of games and emulators. Enjoy

Yes, but it doesn't have everything.

Basically this.
I've found with a lot of games that have good linux ports, run faster than Windows - but Windows still has more titles.

KVM saves me dual booting though.

>not better than windows
haha, you funny, funny person. Maybe not for gayming but for anything else its better. Slowly catching up to windows in terms of video games. If you use linux you probably aren't a moron and learn how the machine you use actually functions on a basic level.
Can't say the same for windorks though.
have a free bump OP

Yeah nah. I'm not going to read this shit. It should be working out of the box without any kind of set up.
You are not going to attract bigger userbase to linux if such basic thing like sound doesn't "just works"

Wow you really are an idiot neckbeard faggot.

When I say it isn't better than Windows, I mean for games, because well, that's what OP asks and we are on.. fucking Sup Forums of all places.

I use Linux at work every day thank you, now kill yourself.

>Better than Windows?
Better than Legacy Windows? Yeah you're probably right that its still on top when it comes to native game library and support.
Its a dead platform though and is already on its way out.

The latest Windows only actually has native support for its new UWP stuff. Its compatibility layer for running legacy Windows software is more mature than Wine, especially for D3D11 stuff, but its an open question as to how long that will last. Wine is improving pretty quickly, and Microsoft isn't known for keeping compatibility layers around indefinitely.

I won't be surprised if people are still running Windows 7 well after its EOL date about two years from now, but then I still know guys who play games on their 20 year old Amiga boxes and 30 year old Apple 2s.
Staying with Windows 7 just isn't viable for the majority of users long term, and Windows 10 is a dead end that leads to the Xboxification of the PC.

>tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/
>RTFM for shit that isn't even relevant anymore
Got an OSS2 manual there too fella?
Pulse has issues with buffer underruns which in turn casues crackling.
The only way to fix it right now is to increase buffer size and hope Lennart kicks the bucket soon so someone else can take over.
Of course, that would likely mean Kay - so you'd have to hit them both at once.

Just imagine how much better the FOSS world would be without those nonces.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand linux.

I used debian stable and had no issue with sound whatsoever. Only when recording it sometimes does wonky shit but that is because I have 2 sound cards (1 external) and it gets confused from which I want to actually record.
I tried testing and it sucks to be honest. But its called "testing" for a reason.
>not using it as your home computer
Proceed on being funnier. Please tell me how great you are with computers winfag. AAA has become utter shit and the games that end up being worth it are either already ported or can be configured to run through WINE.
>kill yourself
Not sure if you are in the position to talk here.

Only those with genius IQs can even figure out how to partition their HDDs, let alone run a whole Linux.

Pretty sure other devs have already taken it over and that's why its as usable as it is. Pottering drifts from one unfinished project to another and leaves them for other people to polish and get working properly.

Most distributions have standard installation screens. Not sure what you are getting at here.
If you can't even install it you may have brain damage.

Only the elite can run Linux and configure fvwm95.

All the non-sense you just said can be reduced to: 'muh Loonix is getting better to play older games'

Well of course it is, but something that is 'viable for gaming' is the thing that plays most modern games the best, when Windows loses compatibility with non-UWP stuff, the last non-UWP game will be over 10 years old surely.

You are delusional.

And sure to play old games Windows 10 will be in viable eventually, what a fucking surprise, guess what, it has already been happening for a long time, there are Windows 9x games that are unplayable on XP/7, it is just the way it is.

And I'm telling you as someone who hates Windows 10 and I wish switching to Linux would allow me to play the same I play on Windows, but it just isn't as viable, it's that simple.

stfu idiot, you loonix militants are the worst cancer in the world, just because most idiotic users are Windows users, it doesn't mean all Windows users are idiots, what I play or what you think of modern games is irrelevant, the question is how viable it is, and it is less viable than Windows, if you can't accept that I recommend you to go visit a doctor to revise your basic reasoning skills.

You are a fucking child.

Since all of you linux gurus are here does anyone know how gaming is under OpenBSD? I want to be very secure while playing video games online. I don't want to get rooted by hackers.

>it doesn't mean all Windows users are idiots
>uses windows
>proceeds on being getting upset over the fact that a paid OS is miles worse than the one that is free.
>proceeds on being an idiot
Every time.
Someone probably pre-installed your linux box at work didn't they.

>All the non-sense you just said can be reduced to: 'muh Loonix is getting better to play older games'
Last I checked the majority of new Windows games are still Win32/D3D11, and hopefully more new games start to use Vulkan though right now most games with Vulkan versions are Linux-exclusive.

>the last non-UWP game will be over 10 years old surely.
It took Microsoft less time than that to drop DOS support, and they've started the phase out of Win32.

GNU/Linux may not be there yet but its a potential solution. Clinging to old Windows 7 machines may be more comfortable, but its not even potentially viable.

You appear to be the only 'militant' person in the thread user...
Why are you so openly hostile toward Linux and her users?

web.archive.org/web/19990202180710/http://wco.com:80/~keebler/weird.html
you sound like a really weird dude!

You can use linuxulator for the stuff that runs on linux. freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-advanced.html
That is for FreeBSD though. No idea how this would translate to OpenBSD

Excuse me, but the word you want is "crackers."
"Hackers" are very important software developers, such as Eric Raymond and Hans Reiser.

>395712862
>Microshit employee mad he isn't giving his shekels for shilling
Fuck off nigger

I fucking love fvwm

Don't. It's simply not the right tool for the job.
If you play nothing but roguelikes and games in DOSBox, then fair enough I guess.

Why? Stockholm syndrome?

Probably. You spend so long configuring it that you can't help but grow attached.

It's just some meme that's going around. You should not have given him a serious response.

Fvwm is great. Powerful yet light as hell, nothing like booting into graphics mode and still having less than 100 megs of total memory used. I'd still be using it today if all the good file managers weren't tied heavily into full desktop environments.

That's what got me to stop using Blackbox/Fluxbox ages ago. When all was said and done and I was running the applications I wanted I was basically loading a full desktop anyway.

Has been for a while.
In the videogame department it has very few advantages over windows, but there are very few worthwhile titles you'll need to dual boot for.

I personally run Enlightenment (git master) with EFL on Raspberry Pi 3 (ARM + VC4), O-DROID XU3/XU4 (ARM + Mali-6xx), several Intel devices (touchscreen laptops with i5, i7 and baytrail cores) and a laptop with NVIDIA nouveau driven graphics, and find it great for gaming.

>linux graphics circa-1970

>nvidia nouveau
Isn't this a massive piece of crap?

Wow. My MUD had better graphics than that. No wonder no one games on Linux.

Depends on your card. On older cards where the reverse engineering has progressed far enough it can re-clock the cards and can perform fairly well.
Not as well as RadeonSI on modern GCN hardware, but certain people prefer old Nvidia hardware because for some reason baked in proprietary firmware doesn't count as non-free while loadable (potentially reverse engineerable) firmwarer files do.

so, basically shit games?

Don't believe the shills.

Glad to see they finally got Wacky Wheels running in GNU/DOSemu.

youtube.com/watch?v=Se8WQNylHEI
>linux graphics circa 2017

So
Crackers == White People, Security Researchers
and
Hackers == Murderers
?

>Every new CPU already makes it a pain to install Windows older than 10
>It'll only get worse from here
Dammit, I'll have to learn linux sooner or later.

The PS4 runs FreeBSD, not Linux. I could see how you could get those two confused though, with the people that go to DEF CON.

It's not all bad friend.

With GalliumNine and patched Wine, D3D9 is faster than Windows.

youtube.com/watch?v=7pn1chyzTFI
Latest STK looks ok, though still not up to the standard set by the latest Mario Kart.

Recent gpus drop support for win7

I bet you also call Linux "GNU"

Nobody cares

Just use Windows 10 with Ubuntu inside

Pretty soon (6-8 years) it'll surpass Q3 Rally.

>Just use Windows 10
No. MS has permanently lost my trust. That thing is never getting installed on any of my machines.

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called " xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.

Excuse me, but GNU refers to a complete operating system, and in particular, one relying upon the GNU HURD kernel.