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Re: [LUG] Opera Gaming Browser

 

On 16/07/2020 12:44, Rich Brown wrote:
Hi All

I see a lot of adverts for Opera saying it is a gaming browser, is this a gimmick please? It sounds wrong.

I'm pretty sure it's just marketing bumpf chief - not the sort of thing that the Advertising Standards Agency are going to get angry about but of a similar "truthiness" value to Microsoft advertising their new Edge as having "more value". Whatever that means.

Funnily enough both Opera and Edge are Chrome under the covers anyway so they're all much of a muchness regardless of platform. Support for gaming related technology and browser hardware acceleration is absolutely all over the place on Linux so if you're thinking of doing some in-browser gaming of some kind you're probably going to end up wanting to try most of them to see what works best for you.

Very recent Firefox is starting to enable WebRender and hardware acceleration by default on some Linux systems depending on a whole raft of other variables and is almost definitely going to be your best bet.

I sometimes fiddle with the Internet Archives' online game stuff in a browser (Firefox) while "waiting for things to compile", there's a lot of really cool old classics in there:

https://archive.org/details/software



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