Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled

So here's my plug for the new GNU/Linux user (biased towards Ubuntu of course): I am a big advocate of GNU/Linux in general, but I personally use and recommend Ubuntu because it's quite popular(there are several other distros actually based on Ubuntu: gOS, HP Mi, Mint, Ultimate, probably more) , it has a lot of users(which means more users on http://ubuntuforums.org tat), it's based on Debian(which is a rock solid distro used in all types of servers and other devices), it gets security and other updates quickly(but so does the rest of the GNU/Linux ecosystem), and because Ubuntu provides a major distro release every six months(this means cool new stuff comes out at least twice a year). Note: I'm not trying to give Ubuntu all the credit for any of what I mentioned, GNU/Linux and FOSS in general are very active actually.. it's amazing! Ubuntu is good, but something that might turn new users off to it is the lack of initial multimedia playback capability. That being sa...

After the buzz about gaming being a new avenue for GNU/Linux platform adoption(even Mark Shuttleworth is talking about it), I decided to run a little experiment to see whether it seemed like a good idea. I came up with this experiment simply because I wanted to see whether there are others out there(like me) that want more native games for GNU/Linux. I was delighted by my findings. The Experiment: The method I used is simple. Using google.com search, I performed a keyword search of a list of individual game provider websites(see the list below). Here's an example of the search term to use on google.com (replace valvesoftware.com with the gaming site of your choice): " linux site:valvesoftware.com " The above example searches the whole website(and sub-domains of) "valvesoftware.com" for the keyword "linux". Here are the sites that I ran my experiment on (This is just a short list, there are more. Please try it yourself on any gaming website you can thi...