Honestly, I just use a local plex server on all my linux machines to play movies/tv/music. It has a nice UI, can handle a pretty bad folder structure and can be accessed though the web browser.
There's Firefox on Linux also, no need to replace it with anything if you don't want to. Gaming on Steam is great, there are a ton of games available with more coming each month. There's not the selection Windows has, of course, but there's probably a lot more than you think there are! For media, I really enjoy VLC and highly recommend it. If you have time or room, install Steam on your laptop and take a peek at your library. Only your Linux-available games will show up, you can get an idea of what you'd have available. Also check out gog.com... they've got a lot of great games, old and new, and good Linux support.
Oh, so you have a lot of experience on it and know what to expect, perfect! Then you could've offered advice and suggestions rather than a snarky comment that adds nothing to the conversation. Thank you.
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Gaming on Steam is great, there are a ton of games available with more coming each month. There's not the selection Windows has, of course, but there's probably a lot more than you think there are! For media, I really enjoy VLC and highly recommend it. If you have time or room, install Steam on your laptop and take a peek at your library. Only your Linux-available games will show up, you can get an idea of what you'd have available. Also check out gog.com... they've got a lot of great games, old and new, and good Linux support.
Oh, so you have a lot of experience on it and know what to expect, perfect! Then you could've offered advice and suggestions rather than a snarky comment that adds nothing to the conversation. Thank you.
Well, sure, I might've made it sound rosy. But I did advise him to put Steam on his laptop (which already has Xubuntu) and take a peek at what he'd have for his gaming desktop.
The key here is if gaming is all you do, then it isn't worth switching to Linux unless all the games you own that you play the most are on Linux. If you game lightly and do a lot of productivity work, then if you can find the same or equivalent productivity programs on Linux and find games to play. It all depends!
Well, sure, I might've made it sound rosy. But I did advise him to put Steam on his laptop (which already has Xubuntu) and take a peek at what he'd have for his gaming desktop.
The key here is if gaming is all you do, then it isn't worth switching to Linux unless all the games you own that you play the most are on Linux. If you game lightly and do a lot of productivity work, then if you can find the same or equivalent productivity programs on Linux and find games to play. It all depends!
The problem isn't quantity, the problem is which games. Of all the new release I've been going deep in on in the past like 6 months, I think only 1 or 2 could run natively on Linux. If that wasn't the case, I'd have swapped over years ago for my primary system.
That is fine and all, but gaming on linux is limited to mostly older titles or indie games.
AAA games are seldom ported to linux.
Driver support for modern cards is the pits.
Successful ports often have poor performance.
AMD doesn't have the manpower and resource to devote to Linux.
AAAAAANNNNDDDDD....
The problem isn't quantity, the problem is which games. Of all the new release I've been going deep in on in the past like 6 months, I think only 1 or 2 could run natively on Linux. If that wasn't the case, I'd have swapped over years ago for my primary system.
Some big games that I can think of released in the past year for Linux:
Hitman
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Total War: WARHAMMER
Xcom 2
Dirt Rally
Mad Max
XPlane 11 was released today. (Same day as Windows)
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That is fine and all, but gaming on linux is limited to mostly older titles or indie games.
AAA games are seldom ported to linux.
Driver support for modern cards is the pits.
Successful ports often have poor performance.
AMD doesn't have the manpower and resource to devote to Linux.
AAAAAANNNNDDDDD....
AMD drivers are getting better now that they are open source and AAA titles are coming more frequently now that Square Enix, Codemasters, Warner Bros , 2K Games and Paradox Interactive have all jumped on the Linux bandwagon.
Some big games that I can think of released in the past year for Linux:
Hitman
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Total War: WARHAMMER
Xcom 2
Dirt Rally
Mad Max
XPlane 11 was released today. (Same day as Windows)
AMD drivers are getting better now that they are open source and AAA titles are coming more frequently now that Square Enix, Codemasters, Warner Bros , 2K Games and Paradox Interactive have all jumped on the Linux bandwagon.
Don't get me wrong, Linux has some great stuff, and I'm not trying be down on Linux, because I love it for laptops, but if you are really into gaming, it's just not enough.
Rocket League (can play on Linux)
Arma 3 (unsure)
Ghost Recon Wildlands - not played yet (unsure)
Battlefield 3 (unsure).
All require internet connections if that makes a difference.
I don't play games as much as I used to either.
All of my work SaaS are browser based so that's sorted.
The only major issue is I have a gtx 690 which is two GTX 680 cores on one card and some kind of chip that makes them SLI properly without issues. I don't see there being a proper driver for this...it would probably just see it as a single 680 2GB which is SLOW now.
Rocket League (can play on Linux)
Arma 3 (unsure)
Ghost Recon Wildlands - not played yet (unsure)
Battlefield 3 (unsure).
All require internet connections if that makes a difference.
I don't play games as much as I used to either.
All of my work SaaS are browser based so that's sorted.
The only major issue is I have a gtx 690 which is two GTX 680 cores on one card and some kind of chip that makes them SLI properly without issues. I don't see there being a proper driver for this...it would probably just see it as a single 680 2GB which is SLOW now.
Rocket League (Linux)
Arma 3 (Looks like there's a Linux port in the works, it's in Alpha now)
Ghost Recon Wildlands - (No Linux)
Battlefield 3 (Definitely no Linux, barring a miracle, there never will be)
Definitley check out gamingonlinux.com too. Being able to use the full GTX 690 in SLI might be game-dependent too. Worth a shot though, I haven't been familiar with nVidia drivers for a long time now
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