• sickmatter@infosec.pubEnglish
    63·
    11 months ago

    Microsoft owns most gaming PCs, too, with Windows which is increasingly ad-ridden. The existence of some Linux-based alternatives is still a small percentage compared to Microsoft’s dominance here.

    • James@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, they really ought to be getting cracked down upon by governments for their monopoly on desktop computing.

      Simply opening directX would solve a lot of problems with gaming.

      • nitefox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Gaming on Linux is pretty good nowadays, most problems you are going to encounter is due to some anti cheat

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
      English
      3·
      11 months ago

      Almost every game I’ve tried to run on steam on linux, has worked. (though tbf, I don’t play multiplayer games).

      It really is worth at least giving it a try nowadays. You might be surprised

      • sickmatter@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I agree in principle. I’ve used Wine for games for a long time. Popular games usually worked even 15 years ago.