Well, Steam was the reason I had no qualms swapping Windows for Linux. After that I discovered Indie games in the Applications Manager and grew a renewed interest in finding little gems of games, new and old. I can even play games with friends who still use Windows without problems. So for me, Steam enriched gaming.
Oh yeah, last week I deleted my Epic Games account with I don’t know how many games I acquired for free over the years, because quality beats quantity. There may have been some good games in there, but I don’t want to drag a scrapyard with me just because somewhere in there may be a nice snack. Also I would have to install an AI-slop app to start it. That’s a nah for me. Goodbye Tim.
My own ease at migrating to Linux as a PC gamer was almost entirely due to the Steam platform but I have had much less success with my GoG collection so I am still holding out for the Linux based platform that they have teased as in-work for a while now.
Epic games’ freebies were something that I would regularly pick up but I honestly haven’t felt any desire to try and access or install any of them since I moved from Win10. Ultimately, I am just hoping that accepting the free games resulted in higher operating costs for Epic and I think I may have purchased one or two heavily discounted games in 5 years. Hopefully I can be forgiven for those past indiscretions.
Steam isn’t perfect but I will support it 100% over that other option since I think Valve has done more to improve the quality and accessibility to high quality games on Linux than anyone else. Sweeney and other pricks like him can keep whining all they want; not gonna even play the tiniest violin for him.
I remember spending a week in 2008ish getting TF2 running on Fedora. It was terrible but it mostly worked.
Now, thanks to Valve and twenty ish years of continuing development and support of Linux gaming, my kids can play practically any game on Linux out of the box.
They’ve earned a mountain of respect from me for that.
Well, Steam was the reason I had no qualms swapping Windows for Linux. After that I discovered Indie games in the Applications Manager and grew a renewed interest in finding little gems of games, new and old. I can even play games with friends who still use Windows without problems. So for me, Steam enriched gaming. Oh yeah, last week I deleted my Epic Games account with I don’t know how many games I acquired for free over the years, because quality beats quantity. There may have been some good games in there, but I don’t want to drag a scrapyard with me just because somewhere in there may be a nice snack. Also I would have to install an AI-slop app to start it. That’s a nah for me. Goodbye Tim.
My own ease at migrating to Linux as a PC gamer was almost entirely due to the Steam platform but I have had much less success with my GoG collection so I am still holding out for the Linux based platform that they have teased as in-work for a while now.
Epic games’ freebies were something that I would regularly pick up but I honestly haven’t felt any desire to try and access or install any of them since I moved from Win10. Ultimately, I am just hoping that accepting the free games resulted in higher operating costs for Epic and I think I may have purchased one or two heavily discounted games in 5 years. Hopefully I can be forgiven for those past indiscretions.
Steam isn’t perfect but I will support it 100% over that other option since I think Valve has done more to improve the quality and accessibility to high quality games on Linux than anyone else. Sweeney and other pricks like him can keep whining all they want; not gonna even play the tiniest violin for him.
I remember spending a week in 2008ish getting TF2 running on Fedora. It was terrible but it mostly worked.
Now, thanks to Valve and twenty ish years of continuing development and support of Linux gaming, my kids can play practically any game on Linux out of the box.
They’ve earned a mountain of respect from me for that.