Re: Games on Linux

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:11:29 +1100
Junayeed Ahnaf  wrote:
> Many people say that the biggest holdup in Linux gaming is graphics system. But if there are plethora of games for OS X (which is UNIX and uses Open GL) then why there just isn't enough games for Linux?
>
> Sound? Different DE?

Small gamer market share, historically buggy and underperforming 3D
graphics drivers, no common way to sell/support.

Lots of other reaosns too. The graphics side is getting better and the
Android world is driving a lot of what is in fact Linux based gaming (and
Linux development work - because its a lot easy to do development on
Linux and then move it onto an Android phone than try and develop on a
phone)

Alan