Gaming

I’ve usually had good luck with the books from the best books list on The Economist. This year is no exception. I’ve recently read two of the books on the list: Playing with Reality and Slow Productivity and have started another, Co-Intelligence. So far, I’ve not been disappointed. I’ll start with Slow Productivity by Cal Newport and cover the others in future posts. I found it to be quite interesting. I see so much silly faux productivity out there; meetings just for sake of meetings, people answering IMs and emails at all hours but adding little clarity or insight to the discussion at hand, lack of time and space for focused effort, etc.

The Steam Survey found that Linux is a 1% share of the market. A rare breed. According to NetMarketShare the overall Linux desktop and laptop adoption is 1.79%. With a share that is a bit more than half of all users, I guess gamers aren’t as geeky as I thought. Or Windows just has a stranglehold on the gaming market. I’m not a huge gamer but I’ve got a few favorites that I play from time to time and they work great on Ubuntu 20.