Hey guys, its been quite a long time after my last post, I was on a big vacation, now i am finally back. During my Vacation i created a poll in Google+ on which Linux OS people game and to my surprise i got a great response from the Poll as of today i got a total of 675 votes and almost 70 comments. Since Google+ allows only five options i have to narrow my choices to Ubuntu, Mint , Archlinux , Manjaro and Fedora. Below is the post result
No surprises on ubuntu being widely used for Linux gaming. The Only major surprise i had was with the 2nd position Arch Linux is ahead of Mint, why i am surprised is that seeing the Steam Survey Ubuntu and Mint are the only two OS which is mentioned in the poll. After digging around a lot I found that Arch linux gives much better performance than mint (which i need to test myself to confirm). I am not sure about the 4th and 5th Position as in the Poll lot of people commented why Gentoo was not included and seeing the number of Comments and the +1's for the comment i can say that lot of people are gaming on Gentoo. Few people did mention about opensuse and Slackware. Overall i can say that people have taken Linux Gaming Seriously and there is good increase in the Linux gaming Percentage. As off August 2015 Steam survey 0.92% of people are gaming on Linux. Expecting that percentage will increase in the next few months and hoping there will be big changes when Steam machines are out
Conclusion
When i moved to Linux few months back i had a feeling that gaming in Linux will soon end because of sheer less number of users and publishers out there. But seeing this poll and also the steam survey and last 3 months big games like shadow of mordor, company of heroes 2 and Bioshock infinite making its way to linux shows that the Gaming on linux is here to stay.
No surprises on ubuntu being widely used for Linux gaming. The Only major surprise i had was with the 2nd position Arch Linux is ahead of Mint, why i am surprised is that seeing the Steam Survey Ubuntu and Mint are the only two OS which is mentioned in the poll. After digging around a lot I found that Arch linux gives much better performance than mint (which i need to test myself to confirm). I am not sure about the 4th and 5th Position as in the Poll lot of people commented why Gentoo was not included and seeing the number of Comments and the +1's for the comment i can say that lot of people are gaming on Gentoo. Few people did mention about opensuse and Slackware. Overall i can say that people have taken Linux Gaming Seriously and there is good increase in the Linux gaming Percentage. As off August 2015 Steam survey 0.92% of people are gaming on Linux. Expecting that percentage will increase in the next few months and hoping there will be big changes when Steam machines are out
Conclusion
When i moved to Linux few months back i had a feeling that gaming in Linux will soon end because of sheer less number of users and publishers out there. But seeing this poll and also the steam survey and last 3 months big games like shadow of mordor, company of heroes 2 and Bioshock infinite making its way to linux shows that the Gaming on linux is here to stay.
