What if the devs at ID Software went ahead and add the Linux version to the existing DOOM 2016 store page? In theory, once the sudden influx of purchases started flowing in then Bethesda will finally see there is money to be made releasing games on Linux.

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Quoting: STiATThere isn't much difference between distributions since they all base on the same software. With newer graphics drivers you sometimes see different performance on some cards, or with a newer Mesa-Stack you'll see a lot of improvements to radeon and intel performance.

The overhead for gaming a distro provides is rather small. What can make a difference is the window manager, especially if games do not flag their application appropriately so that the window manager isn't bypassed for the game execution.

I would have thought a distro that comes preloaded with a bunch of stuff would be slower for gaming than say native Arch given that the end user decides what he/she like installed.

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I am curious, has anyone ever done a gaming benchmark between ARCH, RPM and DEB distributions? It would be interesting to see which provides the best performance.

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It is always hilarious when Americans believe their first amendment right applies to everything when in fact it only applies to their government.

Liam, do not pay attention to those that doubt you. You do a great job here. Thank you.

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Those of you using 370, you getting them from a certain PPA? I am using KDE Neon and highest is 367.57.

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I hope it is DOOM. Really want to play that game.

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I never thought we would see stuff like this end up on Linux. Hope to buy it next week.

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I don't believe it is all about what we can do as Linux gamers. Sure, I agree we should not be buying and playing games that do not have a native Linux version but any developer who complains about not making enough from Linux sales should have foreseen that when they already had a Windows version released.

If a developer wants to make sure their game is going to bring in the money from Linux, they need to make their games cross platform right from the start instead of focusing on Windows only programming then a year later convert the game so it can run on Linux.

In my opinion, it is plain stupidity to create your software using code that can only work on one platform. Granted I am no programmer but to me at least, it makes more sense to create your game with cross platform code from the start to maximize your potential sales without the extra time/cost of having to recode for each platform.

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