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Comment by ThePinion | Hacker News Reader

CryEngine, Steam, Unity (engine), LeadWerks, and now Unreal. We're getting closer. This is beautiful :)

It's almost hard to believe how far Linux gaming has come just in the past, what, two years?

I think it really started with the Humble Indie Bundle's mandatory Linux support, accelerated with the help of Unity and Kickstarter, and really achieved mainstream legitimacy with Steam. As long as the GPU manufacturers cooperate and write good drivers, the future looks very bright indeed.

I think worldwide support/adaption of the Steam Machines will basically make it so GPU manufacturers have really no choice but to write amazing Linux drivers. If they don't then they'll more than likely be chosen less by companies producing (yearly?) Steam Machines.

Unless they only write good custom drivers for hardware they know will be used in Steam machines. Don't know of any reason why they'd do that, though... I'm hopeful :)

Finally. The year of the Linux desktop is upon us!

There won't be "known hardware" for steam machines[0]. They will allow AMD and Nvidia video cards with no specifics about which cards will be allowed.

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

Unreal in particular is a big win since its the base of so many games.

Also...you forgot Source.

Maybe that's what he meant under Steam, as all the others are correctly named engines :)

I can't wait for the 2048 forks!

Yes, the game engine pricing bottom is getting closer!

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