HEYA!!! =)

Ive checked this site now and then over the years and figured it was about time I registered.

I am been using computers sense I was 7 years old. I started on an Atari 800XL. Later in life my next most memorable computer was my Amiga 1200. I have been using linux off and on my Home computer for years. Watching the evolution of it. One thing I have notice about Linux over the years is it has improved alot while Windows for some reason keeps making it more complicated. Anyways for last year+ I have been using Linux as my primary. Sadly the SSD I had my windows 7 on failed. I did not notice it was failing because I never load it up. Only some rare times for certain Work apps. (Most Apps I need ive found replacements for.) Its been over 6 months and I have never gotten around to reinstalling windows :P. Any ways love supporting my favorite OS by converting others and only buying games that are native to linux =).

I've been lurking for a while, but finally got around to signing up.

I game mostly in Linux now, I only play native supported games though, no wine for me. I game in 4K & am still waiting for steam to fix their UI scaling!

I've just started getting into 3d imaging in Blender & am really enjoying it.

I have 3 linux systems now after making the switch a few years ago. My daily laptop was first after a windows crash. I fell in love with Mint & switched my gaming rig to dual boot 6 month later, then on the latest rebuild to Linux only. I've also set up a server recently for media/backups.

My main rig is a bit of a beast, overkill for sure, but I really enjoy building computers & tend to get carried away.

ASRock Z170 Extreme 7+
i7 6700K @4.6
2x G1 Gaming 980ti in SLI
16GB RAM
250GB Samsung 950 NVMe
1GB Samsung 850 EVO

All built into a custom desk & watercooled.

Hello everyone :D

Considering it's been one week now since I registered (even if I'm following this website during half a year I guess, I took my time to register ^^), I guess it's time to introduce myself.

I'm a 20 years old guy from France, gaming on Linux since approximately 2 years now. I enjoy a wide variety of games (most of them indies but I'm not restricting myself). I'll add my steam name in the dedicated thread (it's Adinimys too) so you can add me if you want to play with me.
As for the Linux part of things I'm using Xubuntu (started with 14.04, now on 15.10) and I plan on trying Arch or Manjaro when I'll have the time for that.
When I'm not playing I spend my time coding and I'm currently working with a group of friends on a game we started designing 5 years ago ^^ (I'm the only one coding for now, using C++ and SFML, it's really a great learning opportunity :D )

Nice to meet you penguins :D

Hello!

I'm Ben. I've been using Linux for about 3 years now, gaming on it for about 1.5, and following this site for about 1. Decided it was time to register and start sharing my thoughts about the posts.

I enjoy Marvel movies, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings (Shadow of Mordor is high on my wish list), programming (HTML/JScript and Java), and trying to make my own video game :)

Hiya.

I'm Silas. I'm 41 and I've been using Linux since... I think it was when SuSE was at version 6.2. It came on floppy disks. Sometime in the 90s. Basically when I could no longer deny that IBM was giving up on OS/2. Though the first version of Linux that I tried was actually called "Monkey Linux" and came as two files: One was linux.exe, which ran from DOS, and the other was the "file system", which was one big file that resided on the primary partition. I liked playing Sasteroids in it.

I write stuff. Music and words. Sometimes together.

Hello Penguins,

I am Adrians Netlis. I'm 15 currently. I've been using Linux for 2 years when I bought a PC(actually my parents bought it for me). I understood how good it is so decided to keep using it.
I am making games. Although I use BGE, which is open-source cross-platform engine, it's actually possible to use most of the modern high-end game engines on Linux(e.g. Unreal Engine 4, Unity 5 etc.) so it seems that Linux is friendly for game developers(like me).
I am what's called indie game developer. That means that I have nor initial funds, nor team. I am collecting it all during the game creation process.
I enjoy playing car games(propably that's why I'm creating one). I have 5 games on Steam, 2 of them are Windows-only, all of them are gifts, but my favourite one is DiRT: Showdown(would be Resident Evil 5 as I'm big RE franchise fan, but I can't run it on Linux, running through Wine results of broken shading and gamma not working).
Don't bother opening my website, it's not up yet:D

Greets,
Adrians

Hello,
I am 27 with a wife and two kids. I am just getting into Linux and really loving the OS so far. If anyone wants to game add me on steam: VelcroSquid.

Hi,

I'm Rob, and have been a Linux user since 2006 when I accidentally deleted my Wintendo partition and thought "Sod it!". My distro of choice is OpenSUSE, mainly due to the excellent range of packages available and, of course, YaST.

I've been gaming since the 1980s but let other hobbies take up my time in recent years. As there is such an excellent range of native Linux games available now, I'm very glad to have restarted my gaming hobby.

Have been playing XCOM 2 and Unreal Tournament alpha (2016) quite a lot lately. The Bulb Boy devs have kindly allowed me access to the Linux beta so I will be checking that out later this week!

My current system is:

AMD FX-9370
Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0, 16Gb RAM
Nvidia GTX 970
Corsair Hydro H100i
Roccat Ryos MK Pro keyboard
Roccat Nyth mouse
CM Storm Trooper full tower
Be Quiet 1000W PSU

If anyone wishes to add me, my Steam username is 'monstoor'.

Cheers!

Hello, everyone.

My name is José, I'm 25 and while I've been an on-and-off Linux user since 2009 I actually didn't fully migrate to it until I discovered Arch in 2014 (used it on my laptop, realized I was suddenly working from there full-time due to software working miles better there than on my desktop, decided to go full-Linux on the desktop a few months later). Can't play many of the more modern games in this rig (only good thing about it is the i7 - the GPU's a Radeon HD 7770 and it only has 6GB of RAM), but I usually stick with the indie stuff anyway so it's not an issue for me.

So far, Linux has been a major upgrade for me, at least work-wise. Gaming-wise it's pretty nice, but I only have zero issues when playing outside of Steam, which kinda sucks (I got tired of the constant maintenance needed to get Steam games to play nice on Arch so I just gave up, installed dependencies manually and decided to stick with Itch, the Humble Store and GOG for my purchases). Only gripes I have is that I really wish more devs used MojoSetup for packaging their games on Itch and Humble, and that I really wish they'd post more Linux versions on GOG instead of making them Steam-only.

Anyway. Don't mind me, I'm only registering for the rare comment on the rare article I feel needs an addition or something.

Hi,

I am Alexander and I'm 16 years old. I installed Ubuntu a year ago but i didn't really like it, so I decided to go back to Windows. It was all okay until a few months ago when i met the disaster called "Windows 10". I had some problems with it so I decided to give Linux a second chance, and installed Ubuntu again. Since then I'm a happy penguin. :D

Hi,

I am Alexander and I'm 16 years old. I installed Ubuntu a year ago but i didn't really like it, so I decided to go back to Windows. It was all okay until a few months ago when i met the disaster called "Windows 10". I had some problems with it so I decided to give Linux a second chance, and installed Ubuntu again. Since then I'm a happy penguin. :D

Welcome to the club.

Welcome to everyone else who has posted recently, great to have you here!

Hello

My name is Norm, Canadian, Windows sysadmin and IT nerd. I am 45 and been gaming since the early 80's. Been using Linux in my personal life since May 21, 2013, the day XBone was announced. I knew right then Microsoft lost their minds. I sold all my console games, xbox360, etc, and purged the house of Microsoft products in a zealous rage. Installed Linux on all our computers and never looked back. Now my wife and I cannot imagine life without Linux.

I have a lot of contradictions in my life, I hate Microsoft but I need then for my career. I don't like DRM but use Steam. I limit the amount of proprietary software in my computer but use the proprietary graphics drivers. That is how I roll.

I have been creeping this website for about 2 years. Never registering since I usually shy away from that sort of thing but lately I find myself here daily. This site has become a useful tool for me in keeping track of all the games coming to Linux. I have taken advantage of the free games, DLC, and sales I have read about here that I would have missed otherwise. Read some great editorials and reviews to complete the package. So I decided I would join the community.

I would like to say thank you for making a great site for Linux and Gamers.

Hi,
I recently discovered this site after switching to Linux "more seriously" since my windows 7 have become a sloth in updating, plus i dislike win 10 and I'm part of a local LUG (discovered linux officialy in September 2015, changed some OS/DE during this time, now sticking with Ubuntu Gnome)...

I was lucky to have my Steam library compatible to Linux (actually, I only had 2 games....recently bought the third) and I'm amazed of the possibilities (no switching to Win for gaming, yeah!)... I'm glad to be here and I hope to learn (both in Linux and in gaming)...

Enough presentation... good gaming to everyone!

Hello, ya'll. My name is Jeremy. I'm currently living in Evansville, Indiana in the US. I've been using Various Linux incarnations since about 1995. I switch off between OS X and Fedora sometimes, but usually end up back on Linux. I mostly play with emulators, I try to keep a select few of them compiled up in rpm packages for current versions of Fedora. I also enjoy MMORPGs. There are very few native to Linux so I have become rather adept in using WINE to get my MMO fix.

I think that's about it, any other questions feel free to hit me up:

Web: http://jeremywininger.blogspot.com/
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jdwininger
Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/uwNkEqzmcYx
Twitter: @Slavezeo

Hi! I recently realized I forgot to introduce myself although I have visited this site for quite some time. My name is Manuel, I live in Sherbrooke, located in Québec, Canada. I am finishing up a master degree in physics.

I have been a Linux user on an everyday basis for three years now. Ubuntu introduced me to the Linux universe (or multiverse ;) ) I initially dual-booted Windows Vista and Ubuntu 13.04 until I deleted my Windows partition six months later. I am now dual-booting Manjaro and Ubuntu 14.04 on my personal laptop. I bought the old laptop my thesis supervisor used to lend me and practised installing Arch on it until I was pretty much at ease with the process and satisfied with my installation. I also tried a variety of other distributions as well as many desktop environments.

I have been a gamer for years and this has not changed when I switched to Linux. I love adventure games, platformers, RPGs and strategy games. I usually try to find everything there is to see in the games I play and think seriously about my every move. I am basically the oh-an-elixir-better-save-it-for-when-I-really-need-it-and-end-up-never-using-it type of gamer. This website is easily my favourite when it comes to gaming on Linux and is my main source of information about it. Keep up the great work! :)

Hell I'm William and have been gaming on Linux since the Loki days.

Hey all, new guy here :D

My Name is Laurence but go by "Zambzz", new developer thats going to be using Godot engine to make games Linux first and then taking them to other platforms :D

Im currently working on a 2d horror side scroller, currently trying to get the vector art style how i want.

Come here to meet like minded people and help with pushing the linux gaming community

Hi I'm kyrios.

In the late 90's when I was a student, I used to develop a lot on Linux but a few months after I graduated I realized that I was booting more and more on Windows (and I needed to free some disk space for games) so I stopped using Linux at home.
Almost 15 years later, I had a crash disk on my laptop. As a quick/temporary solution until I made up my mind whether I should buy a new disk or if I should rather buy a new computer, I made a Linux Mint 15 bootable usb stick (I wanted something easy and not too different from the windows look & feel).
I was surprised to see that everything worked fine out of the box (because of hybrid graphics) and that my wife had no difficulties use it so I decided to keep on running Linux and I just bought a SSD and some extra RAM to give a second life to my machine.
At the beginning I had some hard time convert data restored from my backups and I was tempted to multiboot with windows to get everything up & running quicker for my wife, but I knew that if I did that after some time I'd have dropped Linux again (boring to reboot the PC every time we wand to switch user just because we are using different operating systems). I did also consider trying Wine but I guess I might have faced some problems to get some applications working fine, so I preferred struggling with data conversion and using native applications only.
3 years later, we are still running Linux on the same old laptop and I am even playing a few games ! :-)

I knew that Linux for a desktop usage wouldn't be a problem (even at the end of the 90's it was already ok for me) but I didn't expect gaming experience to be so good ! The catalog isn't bad at all and even if the performances aren't always good, I never imagined that Linux could become a serious alternative for many gamers !

PS: Very nice site by the way :-)

My name is Ryan and I'm a game developer and manager at a small (three person) indie game studio called Mind Grown Software. We are working on a game called Convicted Galaxy and we are devoted to having a Linux version.

Liam posted an article about Convicted Galaxy, and while trying it out, he ran into a problem launching the game. As I didn't have a computer to devote to running a Linux distro, I quickly ordered bunch of computer parts from my favorite online computer components store (newegg) and threw together a nice desktop. Of course we had already figured out the issue by the time the parts arrived... such is life.

So now I have a nice desktop that needs a few Linux gaming partitions. I'm not an avid Linux user, but I've dabbled previously and am quite familiar with terminal on OS X. I'm just starting off with Ubuntu Desktop and might get a little more experimental as time moves on. Hope to see you around!

Oh eeerr i opened a post to introduce myself, haven't notice this 3d :P

First mistake, last mistake... Anyway, pleased to meet you! I am a moderator of the italian Ubuntu forum, i only play on Linux and i like FPS and racing games, also i think i'll get Saints row 2 and 3 soon. I'm hyped for the new Urban Terror Resurgence but that will take a bit to see...

Cheers