i’d say it’s less about gaming per se and more that linux is becoming everything the lay-person needs… a lot of people often play games (i’d wager there are more gamers in the world than those that use linux on the desktop, and by a pretty large margin), which previously had all but ruled linux out as a one stop shop
certainly when i played games this was the case - i started by booting linux by default with a windows gaming partition, and tried to hard to make that work but in the end it was just far too much effort and i just started booting windows every time (granted, this was in the windows 7 days ;p)
gaming on linux is more about the average person being able to use linux for all of their tasks than it is about gaming on linux as a specific thing
I’ve never been a gamer in the 20+ years of using linux. And I’ve never given it much thought. So this is impressive I guess.
But hey, come for the gaming and stay for the freedom, security, and choices.
i’d say it’s less about gaming per se and more that linux is becoming everything the lay-person needs… a lot of people often play games (i’d wager there are more gamers in the world than those that use linux on the desktop, and by a pretty large margin), which previously had all but ruled linux out as a one stop shop
certainly when i played games this was the case - i started by booting linux by default with a windows gaming partition, and tried to hard to make that work but in the end it was just far too much effort and i just started booting windows every time (granted, this was in the windows 7 days ;p)
gaming on linux is more about the average person being able to use linux for all of their tasks than it is about gaming on linux as a specific thing