Gaming on Linux: I’ll Stick With Wine, Please
There’s been some discussion lately about promoting Linux as a gaming platform in order to win the struggle against proprietary operating systems. It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think it meshes well with reality. Here’s why.
First, this concept presupposes that “Gamers are adventurous folks,” and “Linux adopters often need to be adventurous in order to even install a new operating system.” First of all, I know a lot of gamers who are actually not particularly adventurous when it comes to computers. Playing World of Warcraft may mean that you like having adventures in fictional worlds, but it doesn’t mean you like your operating systems adventurous, too.
More importantly, the objective of desktop Linux, or at least of Ubuntu, is supposed to be the creation of an operating system that doesn’t involve much adventure, because it ‘just works’. Adventuring is great if that’s your thing, but most people just want to use computers to get work done, and Ubuntu should appeal to those users before billing itself as an operating system for the adventurous.
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