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Nice piece of fish: Jan 29, 2008; Ultra Carp

Asking a probably stupid question that may have been asked before, because I'm out of the loop on this one: What's your opinion on gaming for linux, and what's the real difficulty making games linux compatible/making linux games from a dev perspective? If it wasn't for gaming, I would absolutely be using linux on most of my home computers, but gaming and linux seems an impossible combination and I don't see why that doesn't change. Not that I'm expecting it to. I'd love your opinion on this as actual computermen. Haven't looked at this for ages.

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Nice piece of fish: Jan 29, 2008; Ultra Carp

Thanks for the answers, folks, that's good to know. I figured there would be profits-per-effort related issues, but I see now there's a lot of technical issues as well, particularly with the various OS's (I would have figured picking a distro and sticking with it, but as you say that wouldn't really solve the problem). Guess it's not gonna change either any time soon.

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