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Richard_Feynman on 03 June 2014
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greenmedic88 said:
Richard_Feynman said:
sethnintendo said:

No serious gamer would go Apple only. Apple was a joke of video game industry till they finally got the casuals on board with ipod, iphone and ipad. No one in their right mind bought an Apple computer to game on in the 90s (considering they either got the game ported years later or never). PC will always be where the real gamers are when it comes to computers. Apple will never be able to take over the video game market unless everyone that grew up during the 80s and 90s dies off.

 

I believe the "real", i.e. hardcore, computer gamers will migrate to Linux eventually. Many of them at least. 

1. I think I would quit gaming before migrating to Linux. The developer support simply isn't there for the games I play.

Sure, someone like Valve can build a Linux box or more specifically an OS based on Linux as the basis for their own walled publishing and development garden, but this is hardly the same as migrating to Linux. That's like saying people who use OS X have migrated to UNIX (which is what OS X was based on).

2. And most of the "real" gamers on PC aren't actually playing "real" games. They're regular people playing casual games on their laptops. Everyone on VGC should know exactly what I'm talking about. 

1. The developer support isn't there yet. And for good reason. Windows has had a monopoly on the market for a very long time. What reasons do developers have to support Unix when half the world is on Windows? I'm no Valve fanboy (at all really), but I am very happy that through their impetus developers will start supporting SteamOS (which means it'll work on Ubuntu, Mint, Debian no problem). 

So I disagree with your point because it is short-sighted. 

2. You missed my definition of "real". I'm not talking about casuals and never have. Neither do most people on the internet (which is why tablet games get so much hate).

3. Linux is a free OS. Ubuntu is so simple my grandma could use it. There is no reason, save and except the status-quo, why Linux shouldn't get more dev support.