I know what the solution is: make all your friends get on Linux! Sorry for the cynicism... it's just depressing sometimes.
A ray of light is my dad plans to abandon Windows once 7 loses all support in 2020. That's also when I'll stop dual booting into Windows every 30-40 days when friends want to play an exclusive game.
I was delighted when I hooked up a tower to my TV and my step-daughter saw it and asked, "Is that Linux?" in a tone that was sort of surprised in a good way. It was Elementary OS.

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There was a weekend that my friends and I planned a LAN party during the holidays. We decided to play Starbound as the first game in the morning and play action games later. We ended up playing Starbound for 7 hours before stopping. It was great.

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I'm going to try this! Looks fun and no reason not to try a free game.

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This is pretty great news for me. My friends have thought about getting this one. If I couldn't play with them, then I wouldn't even consider buying it. It's not that I never play single player games, but I'm just never that excited to load them up.

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Wow. I'm impressed. It's one thing to make models look similar, but the physics and animation are very similar too! I would really like to play it someday.

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This is the first I've heard of this game, but man, that trailer made it look really, really good. I don't think I can continue liking myself if I don't buy it.

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The only two things that have exhausted my 8GB RAM (and I don't use a paging file usually) are ARK and virtual machines. Those issues aren't frequent enough to make me upgrade yet. It's funny that I've been running 8GB for probably 12 years now.

My wife, though... yeah, she has 32GB in her laptop.

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I would definitely have Razer on my shopping list the next time I look for laptops if they support Linux. In fact, I already looked at Razer the last time I shopped for my wife. We ended up choosing a System76.

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Scaling the output resolution is more demanding on local hardware but saves on upload bandwidth. If you wanted to save on processing time, you'd need to change the resolution in your game itself.

Depending on the game you're playing, you may want to use CPU or GPU encoding... whichever has more processing power to spare.

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I'm glad this is out. I've been watching it and trying it for a long time. I really like Solforge, but it doesn't play on Linux. Faeria is what I'm hoping to be the replacement.

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