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2025-06-23 13:39 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Re: Steam fanboys
That's pretty cool. Next step is for things to get to the point where
the really hardcore gamers *prefer* Linux, either as a badge of honor
or for some real or perceived superiority.
I think that is getting there for a small segment of gamers.
One of my best non-horse-or-dog friends is as anti-linux as it gets but he openly believes Linux is a better gaming platform, as long as the games you want are supported.
There is also people complaining that some Steam Deck clones are running Windows instead of SteamOS :)
I think that is getting there for a small segment of gamers.
JayzTwoCents switched this week. He hasn't touched Linux in years. It's well known by now that PewDiePie switched. A few more high profile ones like that and things are going to get good fast.
I think that is getting there for a small segment of gamers.
JayzTwoCents switched this week. He hasn't touched Linux in years. It's well known by now that PewDiePie switched. A few more high profile ones like that and things are going to get good fast.
I'm running Batocera like a madman. It isn't MiSTer FPGA - but - as an external drive attached to a NUC i5 that runs all the shit I want to run - it is a win for Linux. It is easy - as Windows is getting harder and harder to deal with. Ig must be happy.
Ig must be happy.
I am cautiously optimistic!
The gamer scene is embracing Linux in a big way; the retro gamer scene even more.
I am cautiously optimistic!
The gamer scene is embracing Linux in a big way; the retro gamer
scene even more.
Yeah, Steam got scared they would end up depending on Microsoft so they have worked very hard to give themselves an alternative.
Something else worth considering is that many old games have fan ports these days, and those fan ports are open source. You can play Diablo, Doom, lots of Build Engine games... native... because fans grabbed old source code or reverse-engineered the games and made FOSS versions that are very faithful to the originals.
That's about the sum of it. Microsoft would eventually throw their weight behind a "Steam killer" ecosystem. There are signs that they already have started down that path (for example, "XBox Game Bar" in Windows that cannot be uninstalled).
"<xxx> killer" assaults from Microsoft don't always work anymore, but sometimes they do. Steam is doing a great job recognizing this threat and taking decisive actions to stay ahead. Helping out with Windows emulation on Linux instead of just telling developers "you should build on Linux too" was a good move. Building actual console hardware running on Linux+Proton was a stroke of genius.
And the timing makes sense. When 90% of Steam titles now run on Linux, at the very time when Microsoft is alienating users more than usual, it's a good time to be doing this.
Batocera - look into it. I run it on my old Citadel NUCs - from an external HD. Linux based. Pretty awesome.
Apollo V4/SA Amiga has native ports that run in the 68080 FPGA native core of Doom, Diablo - others.
I'm sitting in my room right now on a Friday night, cooking Chicken Pot pies in the oven, listening to Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles on a turntable, posting messages on a Citadel BBS, with a Vampire V4 Amiga powered on next to me....
I'm your guy for Retro discussions.
You never enabled posting images inline on Uncensored like I had set up on WallofHate, right?
Well that is bogus, they are not streaming it via YT this year. Appears its ONLY in-world.
Fri Nov 28 2025 14:31:22 UTC from Nurb432OpenSim conference next weekend. Be there or be lame.