Steam Coming to Linux Soon
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If every source game is Linux supported, that is going to be a great start for anyone getting INTO PC gaming as that shaves off around $100 from any new PC build, not having to buy a (legit) microsoft operating system copy.Waaghpowa said:
Hell, that may force microsoft to sell their OS at a lower price as it is no longer the "only OS in town for serious PC gaming". sorry, but linux support has fallent critically low in recent years, particularly with id software's lack of support.
To say you have:
-Team Fortress 2
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Portal series
-Half Life series
Is a HELL of a good start on any gaming PC. Adds to the current Linux roster considerably:
-QuakeLive
-Unreal Tournament 2004
-Nexuiz
-QuakeWorld
-Amnesia: Dark Descent
-Cube 2: Sauerbraten
(well, those are what I consider the highlights see a mosre comprehensive list here: http://www.penguspy.com/#/All/free_and_commercial/open_closed/sort=3/view=1/limit=0)
At the very least a new PC build can just have a Linux boot for the time-being and when the person has the money they can install a Microsoft boot. But it would have to have some serious offerings. You could honestly say you are a Linux gamer and not be missing out on too much.
definitely agree with gabe Windows 8 SUCKS! From a technical point of view, it looks flimsy, unreliable; it doesn't look like it's a great release. it looks worse than the transition from XP to Vista-Looks better(not really) but probably has bugs. Not ever switching to windows 8. not if they pay ME.
Well, it IS 2012... not 1996. They bloody well should.medv4380 said:
As far as I know the only reason 32 bit is so common is because Microsoft operating systems have stuck to it for so long. WHY? I don't know. Anyway, almost every chipset made in the past half decade has been 64-bit compliant and on the system memory front we have most definitely hit that wall (4096 MiB of memory addresses) I'd be really surprised if 64 bit wasn't comprehensively supported.
I'm pretty sure this won't be so bad after all. Nobody believed Steam would come to Mac OS X, but here we are 2 years later, with 245 games that run on OS X through Steam. Also, since all OS X games use OpenGL, all those games can be ported to Linux without much hassle. In addition, most of the Humble Indie Bundle and other indie games are released for Linux as well. And one final point, since they are hiring people specifically to do the work on the Linux port, it means they're not taking away any other developers from their work. I've used Steam on my gf's mac, and it worked fine, all updates are released for both platforms as well, how will it be any different with Linux?Steve the Pocket said:
My initial reaction;
Soon I may never have to boot into windows to play games. Which is my only gripe with having linux as my main OS.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GET IN!
Soon I may never have to boot into windows to play games. Which is my only gripe with having linux as my main OS.
I see what you did there.Fayathon said:
Actually there is another reason. A lot of programmers who use C and C++ use Pointer Arithmetic, and in a lot of code instead of using a 64bit int (long) they cast it into a 32 bit int. As long as they don't have over 2 gigs that works. If they have 4 gigs hopefully they used an Unsigned 32 bit int, and anything over 4 gigs will break. That's actually what caused Skyrim to crash to the desktop whenever it hit the 2 gig limit, and their fix was enabling up to 4 gigs with the unsigned int.Treblaine said:
This. Is. Huge.
This possibly could lead to the biggest shift in PC gaming since devs mainly stopped supporting MacOS back in the mid to late 90's. Except this is expanding. This is evolution. The brilliant possibility here is that game developers could end up contributing to the operating system they are building games for because they have access to the source code to sort out issues they run into. A game industry on Linux could earn millions of dollars for the open source movement to continue expanding and improving products.
They only problem I see is OpenGL is rather far behind DirectX. It has been playing catchup for years now. Hopefully a larger market will help OpenGL improve faster.
This may cause me to switch operating systems in the long run.
This possibly could lead to the biggest shift in PC gaming since devs mainly stopped supporting MacOS back in the mid to late 90's. Except this is expanding. This is evolution. The brilliant possibility here is that game developers could end up contributing to the operating system they are building games for because they have access to the source code to sort out issues they run into. A game industry on Linux could earn millions of dollars for the open source movement to continue expanding and improving products.
They only problem I see is OpenGL is rather far behind DirectX. It has been playing catchup for years now. Hopefully a larger market will help OpenGL improve faster.
This may cause me to switch operating systems in the long run.
