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Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming

Posted: 29 Oct 2012, 19:46
by dedanna1029
dartttt wrote:"In a presentation at Ubuntu Developer Summit currently going on in Denmark, Drew Bliss from Valve said that Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming. Windows 8 ships with its own app store and it is not an open platform anymore and Linux has everything they need: good OpenGL, pulseaudio, OpenAL and input support."


It's not anything I myself didn't know (or at the very least suspect), but this seems to make it more "official".

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/10/2 ... for-gaming

Re: Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming

Posted: 29 Oct 2012, 20:23
by viking60
Yes this is going to be a great boost for Linux. +1