Linux gaming may overtake Windows gaming soon

[Raynor]

Ohh... god...
Windows Vista Ultimate = Ultimate Suicide

From the financial standpoint - yes
Otherwise the story is a bit different.

[Lee_Stricklin]

I wont move away from Windows also not in the end of january where I will order all the parts for my new PC and I will also order Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows always worked fine for me and in my opinion its really userfriendly.

Better invest in one of these:

[Myth]

LMAO, I WANT ONE OF THOSE!!!

Maybe we should convince Microsoft to include one of those whit every OS...

[Phorce]

I have no argument with Windows .. in fact I have machines with both systems installed !

There's always been Linux games out there. But the Steam Linux client ? Is that true ? Wine ? I've never really had much luck with Wine although it's a good project for running less complex Windows apps in Linux. More influential IMO is the Blender and the Blender Game Engine. It's cross platform and is a bit like an Open Source version of Cryengine Sandbox. There's already a huge community out there and prob some big games I don't even know about yet.

[Saya-chan]

LMAO, I WANT ONE OF THOSE!!!

Maybe we should convince Microsoft to include one of those whit every OS...

Or even another one with ALT+F4.

[papercoffee]

LMAO, I WANT ONE OF THOSE!!!

Maybe we should convince Microsoft to include one of those whit every OS...

Or even another one with ALT+F4.

Uuuuuuuh ALT+F4 the ultimate code for Godmode in all Games!!!!!!

Microsoft is a Work OS ....

[[did]Madis]

Microsoft isn't an OS.

However, that keyboard image reminded me about the lecture we got yesterday about the history of the computers and the ENIAC. Shit was so hard core.

[Phorce]

MS may not be an OS, but many people think their computer IS MS Windows. They don't understand that their machine is a "Universal Machine" that has been hijacked for a single purpose by M$.

I'm just now trying out PlayOnLinux which appears to be an auto setup utility for windows games on Linux Wine that consults an online database . Wine has DX10 in the works as well .

[papercoffee]

I'm just now trying out PlayOnLinux which appears to be an auto setup utility for windows games on Linux Wine that consults an online database . Wine has DX10 in the works as well .

This sounds cool .... maybe I'll try it. Is it bound to any derivative?

[Lee_Stricklin]

The auto install crap aint worth a damn half the time, but that's not why I use it. I use it because it's a freaking awesome utility for managing multiple versions of WINE. For anybody using PlayOnLinux I HIGHLY recommend making a shortcut to your .playonlinux directory. It should be a hidden file in your home folder. Any time you want to install something just bring up the WINE app DB, install the version of WINE that looks best (using playonlinux), and then making a copy of it specifically for your game. Doing that will make it A LOT easier to tweak and manage your games. Oh, I almost forgot to add that THE BEST WAY TO PLAY UT99 RIGHT NOW is to use WINE and ACE is compatible with it as well.

[TheDane]

I've used both M$ and Linux (Ubuntu mostly), I am currently using win XP on my gaming pc and win 7 on my coding machine, it simply works more stable and with better performance than Linux. And the updates are better for M$ products, Linux is a jungle and support only few alternatives. Win windows the variety is much bigger. Ubuntu is free, windows isnot, but hey, you get what you pay for.

[Hook]

I gotta agree with TheDane!

[Phorce]

The auto install crap aint worth a damn half the time, but that's not why I use it. I use it because it's a freaking awesome utility for managing multiple versions of WINE. For anybody using PlayOnLinux I HIGHLY recommend making a shortcut to your .playonlinux directory. It should be a hidden file in your home folder. Any time you want to install something just bring up the WINE app DB, install the version of WINE that looks best (using playonlinux), and then making a copy of it specifically for your game. Doing that will make it A LOT easier to tweak and manage your games. Oh, I almost forgot to add that THE BEST WAY TO PLAY UT99 RIGHT NOW is to use WINE and ACE is compatible with it as well.

So PlayOnLinux downloads custom versions of Wine ? Are there advantages to playing UT on Linux, apart from not needing windows of course ? ... and what is ACE ?

[TheDane]

This discussion is just like the Unreal vs UT99 vs UT2k3 vs UT2k4 vs UT3 which is best disussions, just use what works for you dangit. Next will be OpenOffice.org vs M$ Office? I use both, they both works fine to me. M$ with better performance, but OpenOffice does the job fine too and is free like Ubuntu.

What sounds a bit funny IMO is that Linux needs to run WINE (Windows Emulator) in order to play? Isn't that like saying, ok, Linux is not a good eneough platform for gamers?

[Phorce]

No, it's just a solution to Microsoft's monopoly. Developers are quite capable of creating games for Linux. Look at Google. Linux / *nix has a perfectly respectable version of Google Earth for example.