The recent news that SteamOS may soon be shipped with third-party devices could be particularly important for Linux gaming on desktops.

Even gamers nexus’ Steve today said that they’re about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It’s happening, y’all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn’t precisely say they’re starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

  • ADTJ@feddit.uk
    11·
    10 days ago

    It does often feel like as soon as a significant hurdle is overcome, the industry just makes another one.

    Hopefully SteamOS/Steam on Linux gets enough traction to force publishers to reconsider.

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
      9·
      10 days ago

      And with every step it’s getting better. 10 years ago almost no games were natively supported and you needed to fuck around a lot to start anything with wine and most didn’t work anyway. Nowadays everything just works, and the only category of games that doesn’t is that slop with kernel level anticheat.
      The improvement was monumental.