Hello all,
Welcome to the first GOL podcast! In this episode we (Cheeseness, madmachinations, Kallestofeles, darkone778) talk about the pros and cons of Linux as a gaming platform. As with everything, Linux is no exception, it has its strengths and weaknesses and we give our take on those. Are there any we missed? If so, sound off in the comments let us know what your list would have on it. We also discuss Linux related gaming news stories that have piqued our interest. So sit back listen and lets get to gaming on Linux!
OGG
Download Link (OGG)
MP3
Download Link (MP3)
Introduction
-Hosts introduction
-Talk a little about show format
-Games the hosts are currently playing
News-
Microsoft and Universal Apps games for the Windows Store only?
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/microsofts-latest-tactics-show-gabe-newell-of-valve-was-right-to-worry.6745
Some of the problems currently with SteamOS
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-steamos-could-become-a-better-console-competitor.6653
Square Enix dips into Linux gaming with Hitman GO
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/square-enix-comes-to-steamos-linux-hitman-go-definitive-edition-released.6706
Is Tomb Raider 2013 coming to Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/tomb-raider-the-awesome-2013-version-looks-like-its-heading-to-steamos-linux.6581
Stainless Steel games causes a wreck with Linux and Mac gamers
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/stainless-games-announce-another-carmageddon-game-linux-mac-gamers-not-happy.6703
Round Table discussion:
Pros and Cons of Linux as a Gaming Platform
Pros:
-Awesome community developed driver efforts
-Can tailor it for performance, change desktop environment etc.
-Rapidly growing list of games available
-More vendor (distribution platform) support *Steam, GOG, etc.*
-The platform is guaranteed to evolve towards the needs of the industry and its consumers, rather than the needs of a company
-Overall state of Wine gaming (sidetopic: general emulation on linux vs windows) and how far it has cometh - a bit of taboo, but a pro nontheless
Cons:
-Lack of vendor provided/supported drivers
-Lags in behind in OpenGL as opposed to most recent released versions
-Performance not up to par with Windows counterparts *games running at lower FPS*
-The many different *nix distros can be a barrier to developers as far as official support
-We have developers who don’t want to be here Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Welcome to the first GOL podcast! In this episode we (Cheeseness, madmachinations, Kallestofeles, darkone778) talk about the pros and cons of Linux as a gaming platform. As with everything, Linux is no exception, it has its strengths and weaknesses and we give our take on those. Are there any we missed? If so, sound off in the comments let us know what your list would have on it. We also discuss Linux related gaming news stories that have piqued our interest. So sit back listen and lets get to gaming on Linux!
OGG
Download Link (OGG)
MP3
Download Link (MP3)
Introduction
-Hosts introduction
-Talk a little about show format
-Games the hosts are currently playing
News-
Microsoft and Universal Apps games for the Windows Store only?
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/microsofts-latest-tactics-show-gabe-newell-of-valve-was-right-to-worry.6745
Some of the problems currently with SteamOS
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-steamos-could-become-a-better-console-competitor.6653
Square Enix dips into Linux gaming with Hitman GO
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/square-enix-comes-to-steamos-linux-hitman-go-definitive-edition-released.6706
Is Tomb Raider 2013 coming to Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/tomb-raider-the-awesome-2013-version-looks-like-its-heading-to-steamos-linux.6581
Stainless Steel games causes a wreck with Linux and Mac gamers
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/stainless-games-announce-another-carmageddon-game-linux-mac-gamers-not-happy.6703
Round Table discussion:
Pros and Cons of Linux as a Gaming Platform
Pros:
-Awesome community developed driver efforts
-Can tailor it for performance, change desktop environment etc.
-Rapidly growing list of games available
-More vendor (distribution platform) support *Steam, GOG, etc.*
-The platform is guaranteed to evolve towards the needs of the industry and its consumers, rather than the needs of a company
-Overall state of Wine gaming (sidetopic: general emulation on linux vs windows) and how far it has cometh - a bit of taboo, but a pro nontheless
Cons:
-Lack of vendor provided/supported drivers
-Lags in behind in OpenGL as opposed to most recent released versions
-Performance not up to par with Windows counterparts *games running at lower FPS*
-The many different *nix distros can be a barrier to developers as far as official support
-We have developers who don’t want to be here Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Keeping an eye on this, to see where this goes !
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So GoL has a podcast now, I like where this is going.
We will do an ogg version along side in the future. This time the 'cast ended up a lot longer than we were intending, so the editing took longer and its a few days late to be online because of that. But we will at least do it next time, were still finding our feet with it all xP. I'll do the ogg export for this one too and send it over to Matt so he receives it later today.
Edit: I also changed the address of the files, will leave the original MP3 in place for a day or so to allow anyone who is streaming it atm to finish it.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 23 March 2016 at 3:25 pm UTC
This is unfortunately true; Armello and a few others would not run for me when I tried Manjaro :( . I went back to Ubuntu MATE (running 16.04 beta, and it's stable as hell).
Last edited by darkone778 on 23 March 2016 at 9:32 pm UTC
I have it mapped to one of the twelve buttons on my wonderfully supported Roccat Nyth - highly recommended (desktop-switching, window moving, navigation buttons and media control on the rest, such a wonderful mouse).
Chances are that it's going to be something that's relevant to other distros (perhaps it could even have been this Steam Runtime issue which wasn't an issue on then-current versions of Ubuntu, but would eventually have been a problem as newer Ubuntu releases started shipping newer libraries). Since these sorts of things usually end up effecting everybody, it's hard to think of them as fragmentation issues.
This is interesting. It worked for me on my Manjaro. When I am home I will check if this is still the case.
The podcasts are currently recorded twice a month on saturday night/sunday morning usually at either 10 pm or 12 am UTC. As far as being on them a decent mic and willingness to be recorded is all that is really needed.
Ouch quite late then. If it was an hour earlier I might have been able to pop on myself sometime.