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WineX 3.3 Out - Now Supports Steam

Posted by timothy on from the making-things-work-together dept.

AstroDrabb writes "WineX 3.3 has been released, with more impressive support for your favorite Windows games from within Linux. According to the Release Notes, Valve's Steam content delivery system, including the latest versions of Half-Life, CounterStrike, Day of Defeat and other mods, is now supported. The list of games supported by WineX is getting pretty impressive. So head over to Transgaming and sign up for a subscription to help further development."

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  1. Support development by 77Punker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it's a better idea not to buy WineX and support native ports by buying native Linux games instead. Supporting WineX just lets them talk about their "compatibility technology"(or whatever they call it now) more and more, while developers use that as an excuse to make Windows only games.

    1. Re:Support development by 00420 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I understand your concern, but I look at it this way. WineX may be the final thing that convinces some Windows users to switch to Linux, which is what Linux needs right now.

      Once Linux has a large userbase companies will want to make Linux ports of their software.

      Of course, this isn't to say that one shouldn't still support any company that is already making Linux games.

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      Have you tried Linux yet?
  2. Depressing, in a way... by Quarters · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Supporting Steam is ok, but that's really just a Windows app, regular Wine could probably support it.

    Announcing that WineX 3.3 has support for Valve games that were written on the Quake 2 engine back when the 3DFX Voodoo2 was new and nVidia was pushing their soon to be released TNT2 cards really isn't that amazing to me. In fact, it kind of underwhelms me.

    The mean time between WineX releases is slowing and the gap between the stuff they can support and the stuff being done on current and modern games is always widening. The utopian dream of being able to install any Windows based game you buy off the shelf at BestBuy on your Linux box and run it seamlessly won't, imho, ever become reality.