Steam Coming To A Linux Distro Near You?

[PV5150]

Linux and Mac to get Source games courtesy of Valve...

Details in our news article

 

[BloomerzUK]

Would be fun to play under Ubuntu.

 

[JN]

Maybe i'm stating the obvious, but this could actually be a large step forward for linux gaming.

Gamers have always seemed to favor game servers hosted on linux over windows, so maybe now that they have the option to play some top FPS games via linux, they'll make the switch - even if only for the "1337'ness" of it.

 

[Ham]

Can't see that being bad. The only reason a lot of people stick to windows (including myself to an extent) is the games.

Postal III -- a third-person shooter being developed by Running With Scissors Inc

from the same article.

Wooohooo! Postal had to be one of the most messed up games ive played. It was just SO much fun .

 

[PV5150]

Yeah I agree. Valve gets to increase its penetration even further into the market and Linux/Mac users get some Source lovin' the easy way

 

[mrapoc]

Maybe it will run even better on ubuntu/distros? Cant wait for this

 

[nunzio]

oww! i already play a fair few games under linux, eve-online, bf2/2142 and cod4..

 

[Pseudonym]

Agreed, the main reason i cba to go to Linux is gaming. Whilst a lot of games can work, most don't.

 

[mrapoc]

COD4 and 2142 work on linux? lawl how?

Could be a good reason to leave vista - i mean ubuntu runs like a dream and looks wiked tbf

 

[PV5150]

Wine

 

[JN]

COD4 and 2142 work on linux? lawl how?

Could be a good reason to leave vista - i mean ubuntu runs like a dream and looks wiked tbf

Yeah I don't quite think it means that. It's probably just for the Source engine that was recently rumoured to be ported to Linux?

 

[equk]

COD4 and 2142 work on linux? lawl how?

As PV said, you can do it atm using wine.

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I think this could be a good step as native games are always better than using wine etc.

I only really use windows atm because of games (CS:S & GuildWars) & AutoCAD. When I played Quake2/Quake3 & UT/UT2k3/UT2k4 I was running linux 80% of the time, only booting into windows for AutoCAD

 

[nunzio]

Yeah, neither of them run that well, but then i have an ATi card, and their linux support is suckie at best. New rig is going for nvidia.

 

[equk]

Yeah, neither of them run that well, but then i have an ATi card, and their linux support is suckie at best. New rig is going for nvidia.

The ATi drivers seem pretty good now. Especially compared to the old ones.

I remember a comparison between nvidia and ati on linux ages ago where nvidia were amazingly faster, but I also remember a comparison a few months ago where ati and nvidia were almost on-par with eachother.

Ati drivers are pretty fast, providing you get the latest ATi drivers and compile them properly with the kernel.

I've not had any problems with ATi linux drivers in the last 2years.