Hi, new registered user.
Like the site and reviews, atm i have retired my Linuxlaptop for Windows =\
Took to much time hehe, but i have some other desktops that might get some simple setup and try games on.

33years old from Sweden, atm home with depression and anxiety so alot of spare time

Hi there,

Fabian from Gentleman Squid Studio. We're an indie game studio and we are located in Orlando, FL.

I consider myself a HUGE gaming fan of all sorts and platforms (PC and all consoles). I also don't know what else to write heh. :)

Hello guys I want to re-introduce myself. I found gol around september last year, but in December something happened, I used to be an Eve Online player, but I left years ago, In December I wanted to try the game again... and I was hooked again. Eve online is a very very special game I wish they had a native linux client.


Anyway Eve has caused problem with my long term relationship and now I am busier at workso I guess I will have to either play it very casually or just stop playing it. I am happy to see that the linux platform keeps getting stronger and stronger.

I need advise to make a linux gaming machine but we can start a new thread for that. Nice to see you back.!!!

Hi people. Holy crap this place has a forums section, BRING ON THE LINUX GAMEZ PEEPS

Ubuntu represent and stuff, mostly uh.. all nighters and cats and Ubuntu, Linux, Steam, gaming, I need a job dammit.

Can't believe I haven't posted here, so here goes:

65 years old, computing since 1983 (VIC-20, then C=64, then one on the first Amigas in my area, and one of the last still-using-Amiga in my area also, then Win95, 98, Me, XP, at which point I threw my hands up and installed Ubuntu 8.04. When I bought a new desktop, dual-booted Win7 and Ubuntu (or one of its derivatives). Just deleted my Windows installation, don't need it any more. Gamer all my life.

Discovered that there weren't a huge amount of games for Linux in 2008 (but rediscovered Neverwinter Nights!), then the first Humble Bundle, in 2009 started a groundswell that eventually resulted in Steam for Linux. Have some 200 or so Steam Linux games, another 100 or so on Desura (when the client doesn't crash). Have Kickstarted several games that promised Linux versions (Akaniero:Demon Hunters, War For The Underworld, Planetary Annihilation, which have playable betas now, and Pillars of Eternity, Torment and Wasteland 2, which are coming out some time this year).

Rediscovered the excellence of Paradox' games, and bought Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis the day they came out. Lately, CIV V is getting most of my attention.

I'm the same oldrocker99 on Ubuntu Forums and on Steam.

Hello guys, i cant think a better introduction. my name is richmond and currently working under some sci-fi warfare RTS project, just saying hello to anyone who wants all kinds of war games. i think i learned on some of you. so thank you everyone!

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My only problem now is the lack of funds!

In that case, did you notice this game Liam just posted http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/sunrider-first-arrival-a-mix-of-visual-novel-strategy-now-on-steam-for-linux-for-free.4012/

Space opera story + turn-based combat, and totally free (both libre and no cost). I've dowloaded it and am excited to give it a try, but really should be working now :P

My only problem now is the lack of funds!

In that case, did you notice this game Liam just posted http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/sunrider-first-arrival-a-mix-of-visual-novel-strategy-now-on-steam-for-linux-for-free.4012/

Space opera story + turn-based combat, and totally free (both libre and no cost). I've dowloaded it and am excited to give it a try, but really should be working now :P

I meant more that I spent £50 in the steam sale on Linux only games and there are still so many being released :) But I will take a look at that game you posted.

Cheers,

Jo

I meant more that I spent £50 in the steam sale on Linux only games and there are still so many being released :)

Yeah it is kinda weird to have them coming so quickly... on the bright side, I've got about a dozen games on my wishlist, for once I'm ready in case any family members want to know what I want for birthday & Christmas ;)

Hello i'm MrOrange from Italy. I like very much everything that concerns linux and gaming, so here i am :).

hi, i'm bart from belgium :)
i was born 43 years ago and started my computer experience on a commodore 64 then a hiatus caused by parties, booze and ladies (u know what i'm talking about)
I got back into pc's and gaming with windows 98 which i totally got bored with after a month.installed red hat in 2002 followed by mandrake and open suse. open suse i used for more then 6 years (its an awesome distro). ubuntu followed after that and arch for about two years. and now im back to fedora
been gaming since 1979 (cheap console stuff with 4 games on it) and it never stopped (except for the party hiatus)
I always dual booted for my gaming needs but within lets say a year and a half from now that will stop. permanently

Sooo...since I've apparently not done this already, let's get it over with.

29 from Norway. I've dabbled with Linux since Mandrake was the top dog, and have marveled at Knoppix and later Mepis who could run an OS off a CD. Even so, it wasn't until spring of 2014 that I started seriously running it. (Side note, we need to stop saying Linux is great because it can run on older hardware. I installed Linux on all my computers when they got old and slow, then got angry that they didn't get fast and new again.) In January my Jolla phone arrived and with it I got curious about Linux again, bought a laptop and went distro-hopping.

Now I'm as into this as I could be. Between Steam and all the wonderful software in the repos, I now have but two things I actually use and can't do well on this computer. WoW needs better hardware, Netflix needs a better company policy. Both are subscriptions I am questioning now.

So that's me in a nutshell, unable to stay on topic for even the slightest post.

(Side note, we need to stop saying Linux is great because it can run on older hardware. I installed Linux on all my computers when they got old and slow, then got angry that they didn't get fast and new again.) In January my Jolla phone arrived and with it I got curious about Linux again, bought a laptop and went distro-hopping.

That's so cool about the Jolla phone catching your interest -- I've got a friend who has been installing SailfishOS himself on a nexus http://vctlabs.com/posts/2014/Jun/30/sailfish_prerelease/
but as far as I know, we can't buy Jolla phones yet in the U.S.

About running Linux on old computers: it really does work, but it's a pretty different install than on recent computers. Stay away from typical Mint or Ubuntu, while Lubuntu or LXDE on debian is a possibility https://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Lubuntu_vs_Xubuntu but Puppy Linux will almost certainly run well http://puppylinux.org/wikka/MinimumSystemRequirements

WoW needs better hardware, Netflix needs a better company policy. Both are subscriptions I am questioning now.

I've struggled a bit getting Netflix to work on Linux myself since it became available in Norway a couple of years ago. When I switched to Kubuntu 14.04 a few weeks ago I found this handy PPA and tutorial that handles everything from getting Silverlight to run with pipelight to setting a Windows User Agent in an instance of Firefox, that should make Netflix very easy to use on Debian based distros. I had it up and running in about 5 minutes at least.

WoW needs better hardware, Netflix needs a better company policy. Both are subscriptions I am questioning now.

I've struggled a bit getting Netflix to work on Linux myself since it became available in Norway a couple of years ago. When I switched to Kubuntu 14.04 a few weeks ago I found this handy PPA and tutorial that handles everything from getting Silverlight to run with pipelight to setting a Windows User Agent in an instance of Firefox, that should make Netflix very easy to use on Debian based distros. I had it up and running in about 5 minutes at least.

Silverlight is a terrible solution, but I can understand why they would go with that. What really ***es me off though is that you need Windows User Agent or they will simply deny you service. It's not even about not supporting Linux at that point, it's about actively blocking it. That makes me really question whether I want to give this company any more of my money. Thus they need a better company policy.

Hi! My name is Ryan, but you can call me Crash.

When I built my Gaming PC back in 2013, I purchased Windows 8. After getting the blue screen of death multiple times I contacted tech support where I was told that my EVGA Video Card was not supported and would not be supported, and that I'd have to buy a new one. Given this wasn't the first time I had been shafted by Microsoft, I started looking for new options. Long story short I stumbled upon Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and haven't booted Windows since.

I left all of my Windows friends behind. I also opted out of Consoles with the most recent generation - and left those friends, too. Now I'm a gamer, in the first year of using Steam, with relatively no friends to play with. I've been coming to GOL for about a year now. The community seems pretty cool so I'm hoping to meet some cool people to play with.

I'm running 14.04.1 LTS and I only play Native Linux games. My favourite games are:

• Sid Meier's Civilizations V


• FTL: Faster Than Light


• XCOM: Enemy Unknown


• Metro: Last Light (I bought both Redux, just waiting)


• Left4Dead2


• Starbound


• Minecraft

I also just got my hands on the Valve Complete Pack. Haven't played much, but everything is downloaded and ready.

I left all of my Windows friends behind. I also opted out of Consoles with the most recent generation - and left those friends, too. Now I'm a gamer, in the first year of using Steam, with relatively no friends to play with. I've been coming to GOL for about a year now. The community seems pretty cool so I'm hoping to meet some cool people to play with.

Welcome to the GOL community, Crash :) Feel free to add me on Steam; and if you link your Steam account to your GOL profile it would be much easier for others to add you.

Oops! I signed up with steam so I thought I'd already be linked. Fixed that.

Hi! I'm 30 and from Germany.

First tangled with Linux back in the late 90s. Spend ages getting my hardware to work under Slackware. After that i went back to Windows for my desktop and just used Debian for servers.
Tried Ubuntu/Debian a few years ago and really liked it, but didn't get rid of the Windows partition until this year.

I'm having a blast with Borderlands 2 and would be up for some coop action during the weekends. The other multiplayer game i enjoy is Quake Live, which unfortunately has to be played through wine.