If Halflife 3 was linux exclusive would you change OS?

Twirlywoos · 28 Jul 2012 at 23:02

FoxEye said:
under the crappy Metro UI, isn't win8 pretty much still win7?

Nope. MS should have really made a store compete with Steam under the gfwl umbrella with some features from xbox live.

Daichin · 28 Jul 2012 at 23:18

Mark A said:
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The same doom and gloom talk has been going on for years but the PC still keeps on going and I expect it to for years to come.

I'm not talking gloom and doom, I'm talking inevitability. The desktop computer will die as a platform. We might still have a mouse, keyboard and monitor but I see it as inevitable that smaller devices will replace desktop machines. And, so far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing. But a move to a different platform might be hard for Steam.

Omaeka · 28 Jul 2012 at 23:44

dmcg said:
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 ?

He'd still release it for Windows 7/8

. To be honest though, after the few hours I've put into Half-Life, not even touched Half-Life 2 or the episodes yet... (bleep) yes, I'd dual boot or something, there is no way in hell Half-Life 3 will slip by me, I don't know whether I've just fell onto the bandwagon or what, but Half-Life and Source in general are just wow... I Reckon I'll get Counter-Strike!

Or Rainbow 6... Both? I don't know!

Daichin · 29 Jul 2012 at 01:04

Counter Strike is one of those things that (imo) isn't great unless you played it back when it came out. I'm hoping CS:GO should modernize the series a bit (the beta seems great) but we'll see.

Half Life is great though. Hell, even Opposing Force and Blue Shift are ok. Not sure how that happened.

Omaeka · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:04

Daichin said:
Counter Strike is one of those things that (imo) isn't great unless you played it back when it came out. I'm hoping CS:GO should modernize the series a bit (the beta seems great) but we'll see.

Half Life is great though. Hell, even Opposing Force and Blue Shift are ok. Not sure how that happened.

Isn't Left 4 Dead just a Counterstrike clone? As in it feels the same? I can live with outdated graphics, I'll never go into a Valve game expecting the next Crysis, the gameplay is too good to care.

atpbx · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:14

No, if its as boring as half life 2 was i'd burn my PC so there was no chance I could pay it.

pumaz · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:23

Already triple booting (Mountain Lion, Windows 7 & Ubuntu) on my MacBook Pro but exclusively running Windows 7 Pro on my desktop. Linux is nice and I would dual boot on my desktop in a heartbeat if the big game devs started supporting it. But as for replacing Windows, well that's a very long way off.

FoxEye · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:36

Oh. My. Word.

Catastrophe is right if the previews are the same as the finished version.

Just about all the basics that were (almost) intuitive in Windows, you now need to Google to find out where they've buried them. Even getting to the log in screen required a mouse gesture that wasn't obvious.

When friends & family start asking me how to use Windows 8, I'm migrating them all to Fedora or something

WingZero30 · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:47

It wouldn't make much sales anyway on linux

tals · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:57

It's a good point re games, if enough games moved over to Linux of the type I play then it would be a strong possibility. I use my home pc primarily for gaming. But one game wouldn't do it as the others would suffer.