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NWN Linux Screenshots

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the things-to-lust-after dept.

Gabe writes "Looks like the NWN linux client page has been updated with screenshots!. Finally, some decent proof that Bioware is coming through for us linux folks. Maybe it's time to open my copy soon :)" My replacement CPU fan is here, so I theoretically can now play NWN. Can't wait for the good modules to start being developed. In the meantime, we should use it as the prettiest IRC server ever... where you can kill your friends instead of just kickbanning them :)

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  1. Finally by EggplantMan · · Score: 1, Troll

    With companies like Bioware bringing support to the Linux platform, Linux will be more and more attractive to Joe Sixpack. Whoever said Linux would never survive on the desktop?

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    1. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You are another fucking idiotic zealot. GNU/Linux will not be attractive to Joe Sixpack EVER. It is a horrid mess of a kernel, and those packages usually bundled with it are dog slow. XFree86 is fucking shit if you have ever worked with BeOS or Windows. The extensive window managers (KDE, GNOME) built for it run like fucking molasses and the user interfaces are designed by three year olds on crack. Don't give me your shit about Linux never surviving on the desktop -- Linux has never made it to the desktop; and it will never fucking touch mine unless the kernel gets a major overhaul and a new desktop standard is raised up, and it's not built on XSlow86.

      Now, whoever said Linux would never survive on the desktop?
      I did, and I will get moderated a troll because I don't agree with the 'oooh' and 'ahhhh' of the Linux way.

      Thank you,
      -The English Troll

  2. Re:old news :-P by grahams · · Score: 0, Troll

    i hate you.

  3. This is news?! by yanyan · · Score: 1, Troll

    Okay, i realize that the Linux port of NWN is something that we've all pined for, begged for, and are still waiting for. But come on, a single screenshot is news?! Firstly, how can we be sure that it isn't fabricated at all? And secondly, i'd be much happier if we could, say, download some alpha client code; something more substantial than a mere screenshot.

    I still think Bioware should have made good with their promise of bundling the Linux, Mac, and windoze versions in one box.

    Anyway, assuming the screenshot is really authentic, it's nice to see progress on one of my favorite games being ported to Linux, and i just hope the Linux version comes out real soon. Right now, the only reason i boot into windoze is to play NWN. Hopefully that's gonna change.