“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”

Re:“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland” by pantalaimon on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:32AM (#14820807)

> Portal, Portal2, Tomb Raider, Kerbal space program, Shadow of Mordor, Rocket League, The Talos Principle are some of the AAA games that I've played on my linux mint box in the last few years.

https://xkcd.com/606/

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Re:“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland” by madez on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:17PM (#14821684)

Your comment is not on point.

Here are the release dates with linux support date.

Tomb Raider: 2013, 2016

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: 2014, 2015

The Talos Principle: 2014, same day

Here are some other random selection:

Borderlands 2: 2012, 2014

Europa Universalis 4: 2013, same day

Pillars of Eternity: 2015, same day

Civilization 5: 2010, 2014

Civilization 6: 2016, 2017

Factorio: not yet released, already supports both

There is a clear trend towards more games with linux support and less lag between windows release and linux release. My impression is that the tipping point for newer games is already in favour of linux support than not linux support.

If you want to argue against linux gaming, I would argue with slightly older games that didn't receive a linux port and maybe never will.

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Re:“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland” by shmerl on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:15PM (#14821671)

That's one of those xckd which are missing the point, and it's not uncommon for the author to have pointless sarcasm. That's why I mostly don't find his comics interesting.

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