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John Carmack: Kudos To Valve, But Linux Is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the give-it-another-decade dept.

dartttt writes "John Carmack recently presented a keynote at QuakeCon. He said Linux is still not a commercially viable gaming platform, and the two forays they have made into the Linux commercial market have not been successful. Valve's announcement about Steam for Linux changes things a bit, but it remains a tough sell."

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  1. Re:After Rage by pepty · · Score: 4, Funny

    You didn't get it: the "game" for Rage was getting Rage to run on your system, with in game achievements for various textures and colors displaying correctly. The actual run-around-and-shoot-stuff was just DLC for the people who had already won. I haven't won yet, but then again I haven't felt like doing complete AMD driver reinstall yet.

  2. Re:Its Carmack! by Vintermann · · Score: 5, Funny

    It could be worse. At least Carmack hasn't married Yoko Ono.

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  3. Re:Its Carmack! by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's been a very good month for me, +5-wise, so I can afford to say this:

    "I don't know what Carmack is talking about -- Linus is a hell of a game market: there are hundreds of thousands of Linux users, each one of which is ready to bittorrent the games."

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