Gaming on Linux is a lot like being vegan. Both a moral stance and a way to live a healthier life.
Also, you miss out on a lot of good stuff and people look at you incredulously asking why you're doing this to yourself. #gameing
@lertsenem this is so relatable I am in a shock now
@lertsenem I think the situation is way better now than it was 10 years ago. Heck, on Steam alone there's almost 3,000 games available.
Wine has also become acceptable enough to run most of the games that aren't natively available. The sheer availability of emulators also increases that scope by a large order of magnitude - I can play NES, SNES, Gameboy, DOS, Amiga, and Sierra/LucasArts titles.
@deadsuperhero @lertsenem
I have issues with Steam, though, for the same reason I have issues with Windows. Its just more DRM. I can get a lot of linux games of GOG or Humble Bundle, but many are still only available on Steam.
@errant @lertsenem Yeah, it's certainly problematic in that aspect. I'm pretty annoyed that RPG Maker's Linux version requires Steam; makes for an absolutely terrible development pipeline.
@lertsenem @chr software veganism
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Aaah, but is the first rule of Gaming on Linux to be to tell everyone about Gaming on Linux 😜
@lertsenem small correction. #gameing on #linux is like being a vegetarian - being vegan is gaming on #OpenBSD :)
@mulander @lertsenem It's a whole GPU free diet. True gamers are content with nethack and rogue
@lertsenem @mulander (only germans will get the netHACK joke, sorry)
@mulander @lertsenem Not a FreeBSD user, but would that be somewhere in the middle between vegetarian and vegan?
@samis @lertsenem depends how you treat their Linux emulation layer and wine. Are they pretending that what they eat is not meat or pretending that soy is meat? :D
@mulander I'm not sure. Gaming on OpenBSD feels more like fasting from my point of view. :]
@lertsenem but but, we have fallout, diablo, quake and doom 3 and signs of half life 2 😭
@lertsenem @mulander oolite is always there for you when your wifi driver resets again... ;)
@lertsenem that's me in a nutshell (Linux user and vegan and I do many things this way)
@lertsenem @lanodan_tmp it's also like listening to CC licensed music exclusively
@lertsenem Does being vegan sometimes inexplicably not work in fullscreen or in a multi monitor setup??
@lertsenem until hummus happens, then you laught away eating peppers dipped in hummus playing civilization
@lertsenem I’m happy this took a sharp turn in a different direction from the low-hanging fruit.
@frailty Huh. I'm sorry, what?
@lertsenem usually vegan jokes are nowhere near positive.
@frailty Oh, okay. Well, I'm glad you found it to your liking. :)
@lertsenem
Actually, it's more like eating lab-grown meat. I still get my bloody steak and nobody has to die in the process. But right now it's kinda rate and expensive to do so. But in the future - this will probably be most popular.
Oh, and as a side effect sometimes it's actually bloodier and meetier than off the shelf stuff because it's made to order. And, a lot safer because it was made in far more controlled environment than some redneck's farm.