Desktop Linux

Siberian Fox · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:14 am Post subject:

This would be wonderful! is there a way to set up a donations tab? I can get us a paaypal for that.

SamFisher47 · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject:

I think helmetman was looking into it. If you can get us a Paypal, that would be good!

Anyway, by including experimental DirectX10 gaming will open up a whole new market for us: Linux gamers and converted Windows gamers! Imagine being able to tell all gamers (once the system is finalised, not experimental) to ditch the dual-boot setup and just game on Linux!

Great!
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Siberian Fox · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject:

There is Cedega that plays most of my games already.

SamFisher47 · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

Haha yes for me too. But see a game called Crysis. It requires DirectX 10 and is quite possibly the best FPS coming out (in terms of graphics, etc)
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crashdisk · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:28 am Post subject:

the biggest probleme for playing on linux with wine/cedega/playonlinux is the .net framework. There is no game based on it who can work on wine actually.

jc87 · Newbie Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

Personally i would rather donate to the wine project, because:

- Which garanties will we have that the project will be OSS (i have seen none so far)? one thing is buy proprietary software, other is give money to its development and still have to buy it (or support ad-aware crap).

- Which garanties will we have that the project will actually succeed? at least wine is evolving , see wine directx status, they are working on full DX9.0 support and plant to support DX10.0 in a few years.

By the way, in a more personal note we should support game studios that care about nix* users (like ID) or at least care about coding in OpenGL, that is the true way of having future native titles, not trying to support yet again other microsoft closed format.

Also DX10.0 is no more than hype, OpenGL 2.1 is not yet supported by all gpu´s (also i read that not even all of it´s features are used) and version 3 is in development.

Mr. Psychopath · Newbie Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 7 Location: Suburbia

I'm all for gaming on Linux, but there's two things to take into account here: native games, and OpenGL. OpenGL is a fantastic open source alternative to DirectX10, and a lot of Linux users might be upset at using Microsoft's DirectX.

Why not just scour for some good open source games, and package them with your distro? A few top notch ones are the latest OpenArena (.7 something) Actioncube, Sauerbraten, etc.
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