John Carmack Pushes Wine For Linux Gaming

[johnc]

Exactly. If it's not native I'm just going to pirate it. Why perpetuate the Windows only stranglehold on the gaming market?

So far I've bought every single native game for Linux and did the same when I ran Macs. But if the title was Windows only, it was off to the torrent site.

lol... I didn't mean I would pirate it, just that I wouldn't pay for something for Linux where the publisher was like, "We have a Linux version -- it's called 'good luck with Wine!'"

If I wanted to play it (like I do with Valve games) I would just get it natively on Windows.

[ronybeck]

This Carmack fellow seems to have his head up his ass.
..snip.... Lets also not forget how some companies, namely Blizzard, have banned players because they misinterrepted their playing through Wine as cheating.

Two good points. Carmack should know better. Wine is in no state to provide a clean, fast and reliable gaming experience. And it isn't as though people/companies haven't tried (Cross-Over/Cedega anyone?). To bring an acceptable experience in Wine (or any equivalent alternative), you would need to devote development effort because, as I am sure many here would know all too well, getting a Windows game running on Linux via wine is frustrating and often disappointing experience. I would speculate that the long term development effort to Wine as a multi-platform strategy would very quickly surpass native ports.

[GrumpyLinuxUser]

Time traveler from 2023 here.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, ha. Imagine ever doubting the words of Lord and Savior John D. Carmack II himself... couldn't be me

[bridgman]

Dang... I have had intelligent conversations with people younger than this thread.