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On Cedega 4.0 And Windows Gaming

Posted by simoniker on from the glass-half-empty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a new ExtremeTech article discussing the state of WineX/Cedega on Linux as it relates to Windows gaming. The article suggest: 'As an operating system, Linux has many things to recommend it over Windows. Gaming, alas, is not one of them... We tried Cedega out on three different distributions (and with a bunch of games). The results were decidedly mixed.'"

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  1. WOW! by will.murnane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    gasp! surprise! wineX doesn't run games as well as windows! imo, wineX hurts the cause of developers, who can point to it and say "that's why we didn't develop a linux client! see, it runs!" if noone develops games for linux, noone plays games on linux. repeat. don't use or support wineX if you're interested in linux gaming.

  2. hmm by DaveJay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems odd that they would pick only games and demos that are NOT officially supported by Cedega.

  3. Re:Wine & WineX are nice, but... by mahdi13 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It's simple, if you want to play the latest Windows game like it should, keep a Windows partition handy.
    Oh yes, that's SO SIMPLE!
    News flash: Not everyone has/runs Windows. It may come pre-installed with new machines but some people skipped the middle man and built their machines. Some people can't afford to pay for a copy of Windows (and refuse to pirate). And some people just don't want to run Windows at all

    There is NOTHING wrong with running Windows games on Linux with an "application layer", it doesn't hurt your system and it DOESN'T hurt Linux. Some people are not Frame Per Second junkies and don't mind a few quirks, bonus if it works 100%
    Game companies will not decide to port to Linux because "It runs with WineX", that is an excuse (if they actually say this, I've never heard it). If companies want to port to Linux they WILL. We have Epic and id as very strong backers of cross platform games, and more are following.

    Linux games will not be an over night 'killer app', but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy some things. Having Windows on a second hard drive or partition is not an option for everyone.
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    "Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
  4. Got to wonder.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why anyone who would be using Linux (Not you're average media following monkey), without knowing this? I've never run Linux (will change next box though) and even I know this.

    Next people will be complaining that MS Word doesn't run on Linux. Software is designed to work for a system, it works on that system. It's like trying to put a free into a desert and expecting it to grow..

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