I can see both sides to this - on the one hand we are getting games that only two years ago would have needed wine which is great! But there is a worry that it will become the norm and native ports won't be made 'because the wrapper version sells as well'.

I hope that enough games are sold for us to become a viable (if maybe niche) market and we get native versions of all the AAA games made. At the moment I'm just making hay whilst the sun shines - hopefully things will just get better when the Steam consoles go on market.

I have been and will continue to support devs that release Linux games - even one or two that i might not play - though that now is fading as we are getting some awesome stuff!


Just my 2 cents so to speak. :)

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and maybe windows framerates are better - that will no doubt improve with time and for the moment I've not played a game yet that was too slow to enjoy...

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What the hell it's only a tenner and with the lack of driving games at the moment worth a punt! Running an AMD CPU (FX 8350) and a Nvidia 760GTX GPU.

Due to inattention on my part am running the latest beta drivers on the GPU - pay attention when sorting out the PPA's folks :P

And to the devs - Burnout next, eh? ;)

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Great news! anything that can make the process easier for people - was just thinking about this the other day actually!

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Finally had time to take a look. And wow. Does seem to need a gamepad though (though that could be my geeky left handedness :P)

No framerate issues as of yet but only played for a short time - but big props to Feral! Now I just need to sort out a few days off... ;)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: LinasHappy birthday, Liam!

Best present ever this.

Typical Steam though, I can't connect now.

Seems we share a birthday, Liam! :)

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Well... downloading it now. Will report how my AMD 8350 CPU and Nvidia 760GT works laters!

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Damn you! Another thing to add to my (ever growing) list of things to play! Now where is that doom 2 cd.. :D

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Anyone else reminded of little computer people by the screenshots? :P

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I think I have the original cd knocking about somewhere...... :D

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Quoting: Ajdrew70! I had Spotify under WINE (Not POL mind you) and it was fine, but the icon would glitch out half the time I would have to restart. But....I am sure that other people love WINE, I just one of those people that dislike it. Thanks for the video Were! You have been awesome too!

But you don't need to use wine for spotify - there's a Linux client if you look for it!

https://www.spotify.com/uk/download/previews/

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