Game end Joy

colinneagle wrote: "those who actively promote Linux as a viable alternative to the Windows desktop is often greeted with the following sentence:." Nobody will use Linux because there are no good games is the prevailing idea the abundance of high quality video games business is a key factor in the domination of the market share that Microsoft Windows. Moreover, in all reality, this is somewhat true. example, the share price obvious.'s convince publishers and developers of the video game world that Linux is a viable alternative (if, perhaps, a small niche) market and "viable" I mean one thing and one thing only -. "profitable "Fortunately, there were three prominent recent examples of Linux users go absolutely crazy with the video games, turn on their hard earned money in the process: the Humble Indie Bundle (based on a large number of sales - for a product DRM-free, no less - with sales figures of Linux users always exceeding sales MacOS X) Canonical Ubuntu software Center (where video games are 10 commercial software) announced that Valve brings Steam store and Portal community, desktop Linux (Ubuntu in particular). Did independent game developers (with valve) remove most of the benefits that the release of games on Linux ... or will be offering some of the major publishers realize what they lack and join the party? "

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