Linux gaming

Mono

Mono

Mono

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ive been looking at switching from windows to linux. Wanted to know if there was anyone that uses linux for gaming. I know there are services you can get but wanted to know if they are any good?
 
There are a couple of games by iD such as Quake 4 and Doom 3 which you can play natively on Linux.

Source games ala HL2 and CS:S also work using Cedega as a compatibility layer.
 
I game in linux - luckily all my favoutite games run natively - Unreal, all the Unreal Tournaments, Postal 2, all the Dooms, all the Quakes, all the Serious Sams.

HL2, WoW, Eve Online and quite a few others all run under wine/cedega.
 
As a side note, Nvidia seems to offer better hardware for gaming under linux. I am with ATI and the driver is a mess at the moment :(
 
To be honest Linux gaming is frequently more trouble that it's worth. Only ID and UT have really made any effort towards expanding gaming on our preferred platform. They do this not out of the kindness of their hearts or any ideological reasons but, rather, becasue their games (up until now) are written for the OpenGL graphics API which makes porting to Linux and Mac a heck of a lot easier than porting competing games coded for Direct3D.

If gaming is a high priority on your list it might be worth the trouble to keep a small Windows partition for the purpose of dual booting.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
To be honest Linux gaming is frequently more trouble that it's worth. Only ID and UT have really made any effort towards expanding gaming on our preferred platform. They do this not out of the kindness of their hearts or any ideological reasons but, rather, becasue their games (up until now) are written for the OpenGL graphics API which makes porting to Linux and Mac a heck of a lot easier than porting competing games coded for Direct3D.

If gaming is a high priority on your list it might be worth the trouble to keep a small Windows partition for the purpose of dual booting.
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Billy speaketh the truth, the effort involved in attempting to run non-native games in linux far out weighs the effort of rebooting into windows when you want to game. And despite what they say I could get nowhere near the performance I am getting in windows.
 
cheers guys....

Ill do multiboot. im new to Linux ive downloaded suse 10.2.

is that a good one to learn the basics with?
 
SuSE is as good as any. If you don't like that I use and reccomend Ubuntu. If, at a later date, you want to get your hands a little dirtier you could try something like Debian or Slackware.
 
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