2022 is officially the Year of Linux Gaming

It's the year Linux Gaming enters the race. I see it as the rising tide: not a world beater out of the gate, but will slowly and steadily improve to overtake the backrunners.

In short, the Android console craze (OUYA, soulja BOI thing) of 2012ish will probably happen again with a mini-Linux console craze. At least one other PC vendor will release a console or a handheld. If there was a Sega still in the race that were looking to just become a wrapper rather than a full product Chromium Edge style then they would switch.

I'm not sure whether it is this year but I'm sure the progress is impressive. I've been using Ubuntu as the main OS for the last 10years. Had a dual boot in the rare case I want to play something (or sign some pdfs). It was likely once a quarter so never really thought about hacking with wine. But recently installed Steam and was surprised that ... it just works. Not everything but a lot that i cared about. Not sure if this is the year of gaming on Linux, but this is the year i purge Windows from my life.

I can't wait to experience it, whenever I finally get my damn Steam Deck email.

I hate titles like this. What makes it "official"? What public office made it official?

Android has been the "Year of Linux Gaming" for a decade, and it has hardly improved GNU/Linux status quo.

Playing AoE IV on Ubuntu. The experience is no different to playing on Windows (single player).

if they added basic telephony & internet to the steam deck, then I would get it.