Jon_Irenicus_PL: Why do people use Linux

Isn't that just more hassle

why

Magnitus: Yes. Me too. I'd wish they'd open-source their older offerings of Windows overall (at least the ancient stuff). It would make maintenance of legacy Windows software (well, games really) a lot easier.

Magnitus: Indeed. I think it would make a big difference if Microsoft would show that users of "legacy" software on their systems won't be left hanging.

Magnitus: All you need is a community of developers willing to do it.

I think ultimately, the greatest challenge with maintaining an aging kernel is to maintain aging drivers with newer hardware and gpus are particularly non-standard compliant in this regard.

But some gpus have well maintained open-source drivers so assuming you stick to one of those, its very feasible.

However, I think the least effort path may be to adapt a newer distro to whatever an older Linux game is expecting. Given the ecosystem it ran on then was open-source, if you know its dependencies then, you can backtrack what it needs.

Magnitus: I imagine it would help a lot of legacy games run on Linux.

Magnitus: I think he gives a solid answer: https://www.quora.com/Is-OpenGL-a-good-API-to-start-3D-game-programming-or-are-there-preferable-alternatives/answer/Terry-Lambert

I did OpenGL back in 2005 or something when I was in university and I guess back then, it was hot, according to Valve in 2012 anyways: [url=https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133824-valve-opengl-is-faster-than-directx-even-on-windows#:~:text=In%20short%3A%20OpenGL%20is%20faster,a%20frame%20in%203.69%20milliseconds]https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133824-valve-opengl-is-faster-than-directx-even-on-windows#:~:text=In%20short%3A%20OpenGL%20is%20faster,a%20frame%20in%203.69%20milliseconds[/url]

But if I had to make a game nowadays, I'd be looking for a cross-platform game engine.

Magnitus: I think their latest ceo is warming up to open-source a lot which is good.

Otherwise, you have maintain everything yourself indefinitely and you become a blocker for everyone who wants to build and maintain things on what you did.

I think at some point, even with proprietary software, the right thing to do via your users is to say: "You know, I'm not gonna maintain the myriad of things you guys got going on an aging platform I no longer wish to maintain, because that's crazy, but here's the good news: I'll give you the source code for it and you can do it yourselves"

Jon_Irenicus_PL: Why do people use Linux

Isn't that just more hassle

why

patrikc: Why would you consider it a hassle?

§pec†re: Install game on windows. It works but it might need some retarded redistributable you need to find.
Windows is getting worse for this.

There could be anything missing from Linux and who knows where it is to make what you want work.

Johnathanamz: Ok I have not read this topic for a few days and I saw the comment I made that you responded to me.

This is not against you, but what the hell I was saying that I do wish MicroSoft would open source DirectX 1 to DirectX 12 and you agreeing with me and my comment gets down voted, but your comment does not?

Some person here on gog.com I think really really hates me, like a lot.

darktjm: Thank you for clipping out the rest of my comment. I repeat: there is nothing wrong with only supporting one popular distribution. They already do. Sticking to only one distro has not helped. Forcing everyone to conform, like the Windows drones, not only goes completely against the grain of everyone (including Windows users, who eventually like to customize their system), evidence shows it would not change a thing. So screw you and everyone else who thinks they can dictate what I run on my machine. You're just one step away from just saying "why doesn't everyone just use the latest Microsoft Windows offering?".

DoomSooth: They already do? Why are there so many distributions, then?

DoomSooth: They already do? Why are there so many distributions, then? You guys all want to play in your own corner and not have to deal with anyone else. How's that working out for you? Get organized and make ONE distribution with all of the "best" features you guys like. As it stands, there's very little money in supporting Linux. You guys want free &#@* but expect someone else to lose money supporting you.

Screw me? No, thanks. Your loops couldn't handle my root, mount, fsck, and coredump.

_Auster_: Windows does that of having only one variant per OS life cycle, and how does that work out?
Hardly no customization options, using commands is a shot in the dark because you either get no logs outputted or they're pretty hard to find, you get bloatware programs that are a nightmare to remove if you don't want them, you get hardly no saying in OS updates (and these updates are a PITA since you need to stop everything to update some useless function you probably don't even know that is in the OS), the OS is pretty much rented as the licenses expire after some years at most, settings are a maze, and so on.
But going by your logic, since it's a centralized OS, it should be what everyone wants.

patrikc: In both Arch and Debian-based distros I haven't encountered any major issues related to dependencies while using Lutris.
From what I understand, gaming on Linux has made considerable progress these past years. I'm positive this trend will continue.
In general, there are answers out there for any kind of question. And sure, there is always room for improvement.

As an example, the most recent test I ran was with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat on ArcoLinux and the results were good.

_Auster_: Windows does that of having only one variant per OS life cycle, and how does that work out?

DoomSooth: More of my games work on it. That's mostly what I care about. If I switch to Linux, I can kiss a lot of games goodbye.