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Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament

Posted by simoniker on from the why-oh-why-oh-why? dept.

jvm writes "If you're a gamer with a pulse, you've probably heard about the impending release of Valve's Half-Life 2. As a gamer and a Linux user, I always get a little stirred up about the whole Half-Life situation, where we have a dedicated server but no client. So here's my reflection on the sad situation, past and present. How will the rest of the Linux gaming community react to the release of Half-Life 2? Boot into Windows? Wait for WINE or WineX support? Get the Xbox version? With so many Half-Life servers running on Linux, will the same be true for Half-Life 2?"

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  1. A Good Thing(tm) by John+Hurliman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Less time wasted on video games, more time for programming.

  2. Re:Sorry, sympathy meter's reading zero, dude. by telstar · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "I swear it was like watching your dog get hit by a car as he returned from the pound."
    • What was your dog doing in the pound?

  3. Re:Sorry, sympathy meter's reading zero, dude. by Talez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What was your dog doing in the pound?

    Ranger Sierra locked him up because he kept pissing on everyone's front lawn.

  4. yeah. by dolson · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And important things, like recompiling the latest test version of the 2.6.0 kernel.

  5. Re: Sorry, sympathy meter's reading zero, dude. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    > > I swear it was like watching your dog get hit by a car as he returned from the pound.

    > What was your dog doing in the pound?

    Getting his ashes hauled, if he was lucky.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  6. Re:why not support the companies that support us? by Paul+d'Aoust · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what?

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    Standing at the very edge of my imagination, I peered into the inky void and realised -- I couldn't think up a new sig.
  7. Get a life by Unominous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Half Life 2 = Life.

    Get one today :)

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    "Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
  8. Don't worry about it.. by Deal-a-Neil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .. by the time they release it in 2015, you'll be able to ALT-TAB between Linux Kernel 7.7.15 and Windows 2010 Advanced Server (the last version of MS-Win Server released after they decide to get out of the server market in Q4-2009).

    First, there was vaporware. Now, there are vaporworries.