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Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, said today that Linux is the future of gaming despite its current minuscule share of the market.
That seems hard to believe, given that Newell acknowledged Linux gaming generally accounts for less than one percent of the market by any measure including players, player minutes, and revenue. But Valve is going to do its best to make sure Linux becomes the future of gaming by extending its Steam distribution platform to hardware designed for living rooms.
Newell made his comments while delivering a keynote at LinuxCon in New Orleans. "It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming," Newell said. "It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope."
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I agree that Linux will be the future of gaming because one of the biggest cost of building a Gaming PC is buying Windows 8 Pro which cost $199 or more dollars, and the $199 could be better spent on a faster video card, CPU, more RAM, or a large collection games from Steam for Linux during the Summer Steam sale.
Ubuntu Linux is free unlike Windows which can cost hundreds of dollars.
Sometimes when you buy a pre-built Gaming computer which comes with Windows from Alienware or Dell, you get ripped off because you can build a cheaper computer yourself, or ask someone like a friend to help you build a Gaming computer.
That seems hard to believe, given that Newell acknowledged Linux gaming generally accounts for less than one percent of the market by any measure including players, player minutes, and revenue. But Valve is going to do its best to make sure Linux becomes the future of gaming by extending its Steam distribution platform to hardware designed for living rooms.
Newell made his comments while delivering a keynote at LinuxCon in New Orleans. "It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming," Newell said. "It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope."
Read more
I agree that Linux will be the future of gaming because one of the biggest cost of building a Gaming PC is buying Windows 8 Pro which cost $199 or more dollars, and the $199 could be better spent on a faster video card, CPU, more RAM, or a large collection games from Steam for Linux during the Summer Steam sale.
Ubuntu Linux is free unlike Windows which can cost hundreds of dollars.
Sometimes when you buy a pre-built Gaming computer which comes with Windows from Alienware or Dell, you get ripped off because you can build a cheaper computer yourself, or ask someone like a friend to help you build a Gaming computer.