Re: Is anyone here playing games in Linux these days?

On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:05:39 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

:P

According to gs.statcounter.com, the total number of people using
Linux as as desktop for *ANYTHING* (let alone gaming) required a time
span of 16 years to grow from <1 percent to 4.27, and is now slightly
on the decline.

Of that number (now about 4.0%), how many are using it as a gaming OS?

And of that number, what are the chances anyone in this little
backwater newsgroup would be LEGITIMATELY using it for gaming?

By legitimately, I don't mean attention-seeking contrarians who do
shit like that just to be able to say "look at me, I'm the exception
to all things in human nature coz momma told me Im spaytial"...  

... I mean someone who is legitimately using Linux as their gaming
platform, either because they are just too poor to buy a copy of
Windows or their desire to be a doucheactivist for all things
anti-Microsoft outweighs their common sense, etc.

I posted here 15 years ago that nobody should realistically expect
this to happen in our lifetimes, and its more true than ever.

What is interesting, though, is the the closest Linux ever came to a
successful desktop OS was via Mac OSX which is basically a variant of
it. 

But even that has appears to have undergone a bloodbath of marketshare
loss (cut in half since late 2023) according to statcounter.