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Hey guys, as you all know steam has pulled the files, could somebody who downloaded these files upload them so that we can download the linux client files
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Oh, and btw, no win for you. Have fun with you next account.
Im outta here, enough fun for this month.
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Originally posted by bugmenot1 View Posthahaha gilboa the fact you start investigating and screwing around with public logins that are used by many many people just shows you how sore you are about loosing an argument. So ... http://imgur.com/uzJNl.gif ))
No, I am not gilboa. Just someone who thinks that if you want to participate in discussions with you own oppinion then register your own account. Which you now did (to some degree). See, Education at its best.
PS: Thats it for now. Using my own account now (again)
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Originally posted by bugmenot View Post
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I'm not so excited by this MeeGo OS because of it's interface or anything that they sport but the developers that will invest time and dedication to improving the kernel and xorg/x server and maybe even audio related things.What I would wish to happen is to Google get back all those patches in kernel that are going in android so that everyone can benefit.All that work that's going to improve power saving for such small devices and all other work that's going to improve performance is making me very happy.Who knows,maybe EXA gets some love from Intel after all and DRI gets version 3 .
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Originally posted by dagger View PostEA games pledged it support for Meego (which is based on standard freedesktop.org architecture), which gives a bit of hope they will release games not only for mobiles, but also for desktops. I wonder if Valve gonna beat them.
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Originally posted by bell View PostOnce a major distributor starts supporting linux I think they will discover lots of people who never buy any games starting to spend their money.
And steam would be ideal, almost as easy installing games via steam as we're used to via apt-get/yum.
I for one would buy more games. I hate dual-booting, so the effort of playing a game is not worth it. I'm typically a casual gamer ("lots" of kids, I don't have the time for extended periods of hard core gaming any more) and don't play games since I can't fire up a game for 30 minutes of entertainment (which usually stretches into the late hours of the night) without spending several minutes dualbooting. Which also means that It'l take time getting back into where I was before I started gaming as well. (Hibernate on linux, boot windows, play, play, shutdown windows, restore hibernated linux works fairly well)
I'm definitely going to buy much more games once (casual) games are more available! (And games like Dragon Age) Wine is great, as long as a game works "out-of-the-box". When "fiddling" is needed, I don't have the time.
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Originally posted by faemir View PostI hope this will be released, but i'm more inclined to believe it's an internal Valve only client like the blizzard WoW one.
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Originally posted by bugmenot View PostWhoa go the spam !! Great way of getting your point across Gilboa !!
Geez, you typed all that out without realizing the whole point of what I was talking about ?? I was talking about SOFTWARE not HARDWARE. Of course people are going to realize that they are not going to run the latest games on older hardware and netbooks .. I mean any old noob knows that. So again your point is invalid.
Let me spell it out for you.... SLOWLY:
1. Recent distribution + nVidia hardware + nVidia blob drivers + recent platform should perform more-or-less on-par with Windows XP. (And I've got numbers to back my case)
2. Linux users tend to be far more computer proficient, and tend to select their hardware accordingly (do you claim otherwise?).
3. Linux users are used to living in a no-support / community support environments.
4. Linux users are far better accustomed to filing meaningful bug reports and support request.
5. At least according to Phoronix' own surveys, nVidia's Linux market share (percentage wise) is far higher then their global market share. (By an order of magnitude) and on part with their Valve market share. (Even though Valves surveys target gamers while Phoronix' surveys target the general Linux-using public)
So, if you do the math:
Linux users are more likely to have Source-engine compatible hardware (Repeat: Recent distribution + nVidia hardware + nVidia blob drivers + recent platform) and are far more-likely to be able to fix their own problems (as opposed to flooding the tech support lines with "Crysis no workie on my single-core-ATOM with 945 chipset!" calls) than their Windows-using counter-parts.
So in short, technically speaking, the Linux eco-system is (far) better than the Windows eco-system. (Do I hear applause?)
Now, I doubt that Valve will port Source engine to Linux (most likely because of the limited user-base) but technical merits have nothing to do with.
Are we done yet?
- Gilboa
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