As usual, question is different from poll, blah blah blah.
OT- Lemme fix a couple of somethings for you:
Fireprufe15 said:
So it seems Linux are really pushing for more space in the mainstream. They're even releasing Linux smartphones.
This is making think more and more, Windows really has to die and make way for Linux. I would like to see it being the gaming OS of choice, rather than Windows. This should be good...
Captcha: Open Season...why yes that is apropriate.
Not to make myself a prick, but there's a reason why I bolded Linux and axed Ubuntu.
See, the Linux community consists of more than just Canonical, the Ubuntu guys. There's people like Novell, Red Hat, and the whole open source community who want the nice games. Some people don't like Ubuntu for reasons that go past Unity[footnote] At this point, it's very usable, but rigid in cases. But it's not like the Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 days where Unity was a steaming pile of shit.[/footnote]. They'd like games to go to their distro, be it distros like Fedora and OpenSuSE or the most esoteric of the esoteric distros.
Hence, gaming will get a head start on Ubuntu, but won't get anywhere unless the open-source communities stand up and make this happen. There's already a huge movement happening. See the sales of the Humble Bundles, which had Linux users outpaying the Mac users one year (forgot the year that happened, but I may be wrong about this) and the Valve Linux guys, who have reported optimizing L4D2 to perform better on Linux in less than the time it took to optimize the Windows version[footnote] Link: [link]http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/[/link][/footnote] for proof.
Just a sorta minor nitpick, but I'd thought that I should explain my actions before I get slammed by both parties.
Anyway, Ubuntu is going to get better as a game platform which will then evolve into a Windows competitor.
In theory. It will only work if the big companies decide to make a Linux version of the games that they distribute. This is something that I'm not worried about, give the position Valve is in right now. Also, with Windows going the route of the closed UEFI dud[footnote]Secure Boot can go fuck right off. That's the nicest way I can say it. I like the OS itself (most of the time), but the direction that MS is taking by copying Apple, starting by locking the boot on OEM PCs, is worrying. Hope they snap out of it for Windows
9 Blue.[/footnote], it's safe to say that Linux will only get better as a gaming platform.
Captcha- flux capacitator
I hope the captcha realizes that Linux isn't as bad as it was a couple of years ago. Heck, it's perfectly possible to get a Linux box fully working in 30 minutes, as opposed to 1 hour or more for Windows.