My eve online circa 2008-10 was on Linux, as well as other not-entirely well remembered attempts dating back to around 2005, when I was more interested in spinny cube desktop. Fglrx and I were well acquainted, but not quite friends.
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I played WoW Cataclysm around 2011 with wine. It worked but thats it.
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I ran a half-life dedicated server on Linux for years!
Ah yes, mostly Portal and Portal2 and LBreakout2
I mean⦠does Tuxracer and Wesnoth count?
When I was growing up, my dad had a phase where he was experimenting with Linux. He had several installs over the years, Red Hat, Gnome(?), Ubuntuβ¦I remember spending hours playing Tux Racer, SuperTux, Pingus, Chromium BSUβ¦good times.
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yes, it does
My last foray into Linux gaming was back in the early-2010s, and I was mostly just trying to get EVE Online to run unsuccessfully. I was running a laptop that was top if the line (in 2009) and my PCs were cobbled together from old Dells and HPs donated by family and friends or retired and given away by my company IT team.
Steam on Linux was nice, and would show you which games in your library had Linux native versions to install. I held out on that and browser gamed for a while. Played a lot of Runescape and Minecraft. Taught myself to code a bit, but didn't really get anywhere with that.
Eventually I had money and time to put together a "proper" gaming PC, and of course I put Windows on it since I wanted to get an NVidia graphics card as I'd had so much trouble with the AMD drivers on my laptop.
Ran Windows for gaming and kept Linux on the laptop since then. First PC ran Win7, which i loved. Next one ran Win 8, which I hated. Current one was running Win 10, which was meh, and I've only soured on it over time. Made the switch back to Linux last week after I got tired of M$ constantly asking me if I want to try Copilot on /both/ my work and personal PCs.
Proton is fucking great. Never going back. The old laptop is still running strong after 15 years. It's got BunsenLabs installed at the moment.
No one is mentioning Tux Racer? Blasphemy!
Dink Smallwood
I was in the beta for the original World of Warcraft and restarted when it officially launched. This was 20 years ago, so memory is fuzzy, but somewhere along the way I was playing it in wine exclusively under Linux. Game updates were common and frequently broke wine, but I kid you not a patch was available within 24h. Yes, this forced me to compile my own wine, but it wasn't that difficult then. Together with "checkinstall" I could maintain a clean .deb package from the source code.
Some links I found in a quick search showing the challenges:
- https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-games-33/world-of-warcraft-in-wine-success-485886/
- https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-311551-start-0.html
To be honest, keeping the game running in Linux sometimes felt as a fun side quest!
After that I was mostly able to play all my games in Linux, with some exceptions, obviously, that sometimes required me to install windows.
My 1999 setup running Slackware while playing Loki's Civ CTP
What is that console looking thing in the bottom right corner?
Could be a scanner
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Pure art!
Thatβs one tall tower.
First i thought you had a cat hiding there.
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I liked playing osu! on Linux through Wine since it offered much lower audio and input latency than you could achieve on Windows. Minecraft has also always been a safe bet on Linux (unless you enabled shaders, then it just turned into a visual abomination for just about every shaderpack).
Generally OpenGL games weren't too bad, DirectX however... the biggest change here was DXVK rather than Proton.
Never thought we'd get to where we are now.
So much minecraft and kerbal space program. They were two of the very few games that ran naively and had cracked Linux files available on public trackers. I had to put a minimum of 1000 hours of minecraft using the clit mouse that old Dell laptops used to have. I hate that they got rid of those and now the only modern laptops with the clit mouse are Lenovos which I hate. Lenovo ruined ThinkPads.
The what mouse?
Named so because itβs hard to find and fiddly to use?
Nop, named so because once you learn how to use it properly, you can finish tasks faster and easier than any other plug-in solution. Plus itβs way less awkward than just rubbing randomly all over the trackpad.
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10 years ago back in college I mainly ran Ubuntu and did the windows VM with VFIO GPU passthrough to game on a fullscreen windows VM that got full PCI usage of the GPU, was the best of both worlds
My first attempt to switch to Linux for my primary desktop was in 2007, and ended when my attempt to run WoW via WINE mostly worked, but had a weird an completely unfixable audio delay.
Proton (and Valve's efforts on SteamOS and the Steam Deck more generally) have been an absolute godsend for Linux as a usable daily-driver.
Does Teeworld count?
The last time I played that game I was immediately kicked due to "skill issue"
Its good you like it though, I just wish there was local version
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I don't get it. Is she excited before proton because it was exciting if something actually ran?
I got a manic vibe, like a similar energy to when you've been modding a game for 20x longer than you've actually played it, except in this case, it's not a choice.
she's excited because running games before proton was difficult
but your option is also good
So excited about the challenge, like running the game is a different game than the game?
Wine Souls
Who remembers Cedega. Had a lot of fun on that, both playing and configuring to play. Think I was running Fedora, or was it Mandrake/Mandriva. Man I remember having the drive to distro hop weekly at one point
OpenTTD worked excellent on Ubuntu on my Dell E5400 back in 2009-2011 or so.
Oh yeah. Back in the late 90s I played all the games ported by Loki Games. I played the native quakes, portal 1 & 2. And using regular Wine and some winetricks I played about 300 hours of Skyrim and completed Mass Effect 1,2,3.
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I was playing Quake 3 and Unreal Torunament 2003 in the early 2000s, they had native versions. One of the first mainstream Linux gaming pioneers.
I used to use Second Life on Linux too with a third party client.
The first half of the 2000s was a lot better for Linux gaming than the second half. That time period after game companies stopped releasing anything for Linux but before Wine became realistically usable was very dark.
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I once got The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion to run on Ubuntu, but some strange Bethesda bugs managed to creep into the experience. There was a giant 2D tree taking up a chunk of the skybox that I couldn't get rid of, so I made it headcannon when I was playing it.
Luckily when I tried it on the Steam Deck not too long ago, this bug was no longer present.
So, what you're saying is you had an early access build of Elden Ring?
I started gaming on Linux at the beginning of 2019, that was afaik half a year after Proton was released, and I still remember how rough around the edges it was. Back then it still felt somewhat like a coin flip (the odds in reality were obviously a good deal better) if a game ran. Seeing how much they improved it over the last 5 years is really quite something.