This article looks at strategy and simulation games. Even if a particular game is not packaged for a particular distribution, it is usually easy to download the game from the project's website to install and play it. While open source games are unlikely ever to rival some of the AAA commercial games developed with massive budgets, there are plenty of open source games, in many genres, that are fun to play and can be installed from the repositories of most major Linux distributions. So, can someone who only uses free and open source software find games that are polished enough to present a solid gaming experience without compromising their open source ideals? Absolutely. Sure, the games can be played on an open source operating system, but that is not good enough for an open source purist. That has changed somewhat in recent years thanks to Steam, GOG, and other efforts to bring commercial games to multiple operating systems, but those games are often not open source. Gaming has traditionally been one of Linux's weak points.
0 kommentar(er)
