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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.

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[–] john89@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I've been saying for years: we need a dedicated gaming operating system.

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No we don't. Who needs that? That's what consoles are for. Every time I want to play on my computer I would need to dual boot and change to the OS? That's nonsense

Game Devs and device driver Devs need to get their shit together and fix things.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Personally I'd love a dedicated console experience that's Linux.

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Console? Absolutely, but not PC. You'd remove all the versatility of owning a pc

[–] asap@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Do you mean a dedicated gaming flavor of Linux? Because otherwise, isn't that just a console?

[–] coriza@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or even better, a dedicated gaming runtime environment. And that env can then be made multiplatform.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Hello, flatpak exists you know