Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today

Time actually flies huh? GamingOnLinux has now been round formally for 16 years.

During the last yr or two we have seen a very good few different websites shut down, some had large layoffs, others bought offered and changed into playing websites, and numerous bought offered off to the house owners of IGN however we’re nonetheless right here to maintain reporting on every thing associated someway to Linux and the broader gaming business. A giant thanks as at all times to everybody studying, commenting and sharing our articles. An additional large thanks to all our supporters for protecting us going!

Proper now, issues are fairly nice. However, all that would change. With the persevering with rise of AI being shoved into our eyeballs at each alternative, the online goes to look fairly completely different a yr from now. With Google, Bing and others decided to get you to make use of AI that hardly credit the writers that really energy all their responses (like me, hello).

What this does is remind everybody that the large search engines like google are not your folks. They need your information and so that you can by no means click on away from them. The longer they hold you, the extra information they will seize and the extra adverts they will present you.

Annoyingly, Microsoft additionally again in Could determined to simply take away us from Bing Information and massively deranked us, following 1 single hour downtime due to an information centre downside and present no indicators of placing us again in – which was a little bit of a blow (so we barely seem in something like DuckDuckGo now). I’ve tried explaining this to Microsoft, they usually simply do not care.

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It isn’t all doom and gloom although, worry not, GamingOnLinux has no plans to go anyplace. Internet site visitors remains to be presently someway the highest it has ever been! And we have now no plans to make use of any AI technology for something. It is all hand-crafted spelling errors and horrible grammar right here.

Our Steam Tracker page additionally not too long ago expanded to start to incorporate the highest Linux distributions used on Steam over time. It is a guide course of and can take some time to replenish, however I believed it could be fascinating to see for the tendencies.

Oh, and for individuals who favored it, our PC Data system is coming again. Keep tuned, it wants some work although to modernise it and repair plenty of points it had within the background.

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