Comments on: Linux Gaming: 20,000 Light-Years Into Space

By: JK Wood

JK Wood — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:23:48 +0000

@gokudomatic:

http://www.junauza.com/2008/12/yes-linux-can-run-crysis.html

I play World of Warcraft on my Slamd64 box constantly. I don’t even have a Windows install to game in any more, because I get BETTER performance in Linux than Windows.

By: Prootwadl

Prootwadl — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:24:08 +0000

With all due respect, there are a fair number of good Linux gaming examples which are “modern full-on 3D games that require more computing power than your average Beowulf cluster”, and will thus have an appeal to most gamers (who are just as interested in pretty as they are in playable). Notable examples are Spring, Nexuiz, and UT2004. The latter is commercial, of course, but older copies have a Linux installation script that works like a snap … I installed it on a Puppy Linux variant with no issues.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:10:14 +0000

I love this game! After playing it on ubuntu, I found a windows-version. To me, it demonstrates the power of python more than the power of linux. And being able to run it on any platform is awesome!

By: Jack Wallen

Jack Wallen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:03:03 +0000

gokudomatic: I don’t think my intent is to try to win Windows users over to Linux with games. Honestly what I want to do is just show Linux users there are some enjoyable games to play natively. If I really wanted to show seriouis games I would (and probably will) do an article on Cedega and using Windows games on Linux.

but then – i still like rogue-like games. ;-)

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:04:17 +0000

if you want to convince people there are games under linux, don’t show this one. Most players want the games that use more computing power than your beowulf cluster. We’re not in the 90’s anymore, and the people know that. They want always better. So, the standard today is at least Crysis, not half-life 1 (even if it’s an excellent game).

I’m sorry to kill the mood like that, and of course I welcome game projects like this one, but this won’t bring most of the windows players to linux.

By: Paymun

Paymun — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:59:26 +0000

More like native gaming mainstream gaming support for Linux is 20,000 Light-Years Into Space.

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