If Halflife 3 was linux exclusive would you change OS?

dmcg · 26 Jul 2012 at 16:55

Seeing as Gabe has said how much he thinks windows 8 is fail and is pushing towards Linux would any of you swap OS if Half life 3 was Linux exclusive ?

Moothead2 · 26 Jul 2012 at 16:56

Nope, I don't care about the Half Life games, never played any of them

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G-MAN2004 · 26 Jul 2012 at 16:56

Yes. Straight away.

VoG · 26 Jul 2012 at 16:58

hell no, VM

orderoftheflame · 26 Jul 2012 at 16:58

Dual boot.

T345 · 26 Jul 2012 at 16:59

If Linux got steam etc, I would switch to linux (better driver support anyway

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Tute · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:01

orderoftheflame said:
Dual boot.

I'd do this. It'd take quite a lot of my Steam games going Linux for me to switch totally.

mortals · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:02

I run linux dualboot already

not that bothered about halflife3 tbh

but if/when they port the source engine and port other popular online/multiplayer source games (dota2,l4d2,csgo,tf2,etc) people might start thinking about switching or dualbooting

CaptainRAVE · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:03

Nope.

Craig321 · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:03

Nope, certainly not for one game.

VM or dual boot if I wanted to play it

Yaayuh! · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:06

No i wouldn't. And no it wouldn't be Linux only, unless he wants to lose shed loads of money, which he doesn't because he's a businessman.

T345 said:
If Linux got steam etc, I would switch to steam (better driver support anyway )

What..

Mint_Sauce · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:06

Dual boot and try using Linux as a main OS to see if it was possible for me

moogle · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:08

Yeah, USB boot and temporarily run until I finish the game

TheVoice · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:18

I'd use it for the game and nothing more. I use Windows because I like the OS, a game isn't going to change that.

Marky · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:19

As others have said - I would probably just dual boot. There are too many applications and games that only work for Windows or MacOS.

I would rather they go MacOS exclusive

Swordfish · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:20

orderoftheflame said:
Dual boot.

Sensible choice.

FrenchTart · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:20

That wouldn't be a reason for me to switch to Linux... but I already have several reasons to do so so it might help me along the way.

SickoJay · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:25

G-MAN2004 said:
Yes. Straight away.

This.

T345 · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:29

Rossi~ said:
No i wouldn't. And no it wouldn't be Linux only, unless he wants to lose shed loads of money, which he doesn't because he's a businessman.

What..

oops, fixed

McBain · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:33

I wouldn't jump ship for one game ... if Steam happened to make the move though, it's something that would have to be seriously considered.