New Alienware gaming PC runs on Ubuntu

Wait, both you and Dell are aware that there are more ways to play games besides Steam right? The Fedora games spin had over a hundred games on it. Shouldn't be too difficult to find them. And then people seem to forget about Desura although if it has any games Steam doesn't I wouldn't know. I would think it'd make sense for Dell to have both pre-installed along with PlayOnLinux. Should allow quite a bit more games to be installed. A link to humble bundle too.

Also what's with your disappointment? Those two thousand games came out for Windows overnight? Give it some time, be patient. I think it's great that from no Steam to Steam 90 games came out. Maybe more came out when Steam first came out for Windows don't know that can't be what you meant though seeing as Wikipedia says there are over 1860 games now. Well, whatever I'm not much of a gamer anyway.

it aint alienware anymore.its just a dell.

The disappointment is not the number of games but the games themselves. After all, a linux box can run DOS games with a little work, and that alone is thousands of games. That, and the crummy specs that are beaten by a laptop that costs less.

I think the point is, if you're going to buy a gaming pc and only run ubuntu then there's something wrong with your brain. Linux has a disappointing number of games to warrant such a purchase

Well, the Alienware line IS overpriced, but you can quit being so agog at the "Linux gaming PC", people. Any user appreciates a more powerful system, and a gaming rig has that power in spades; you don't actually have to use it for *games*.

As of December 2012: Steam have 1860+ games available and 54M active user accounts.
As of January 2013: 6.6M concurrent players and has an estimated around 60% share of the digital distribution market for video games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_%28video_games%29

i tried steam on linux it only listed one available game.

Umm at last count the windows I use has literally millions of games. Or are you refering to 8 and it's gimped OS that reset windows and now has a few 1000 apps in total?

One word.....POOOP!
I'll stick with my bad ass gaming rig TYVM '-)

With Linux I would have thought the price would be less - i wonder how much more profit they are making without installing windows.
hmmmm

Originally posted by omendata:

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With Linux I would have thought the price would be less - i wonder how much more profit they are making without installing windows.
hmmmm

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Yeah looks like the better os will finally win.
With Windows 8 a flop will this be the end for msfot in the os arena.