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Does Linux Have Game?

Posted by michael on from the tuxracer dept.

kwpulliam writes "Tom's Hardware has an interesting writeup, discussing the difficulties in bringing games to Linux, and the dilemmas faced by the graphics card developers."

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  1. Sure. by falzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux has gaim.

  2. Re:Yes... by Cynikal · · Score: 5, Funny

    kinda like mac gaming...

    theres lots of great games for the mac... warcraft 3... zork.. break out... super breakout... photoshop...

  3. Re:call me stupid by dioscaido · · Score: 3, Funny

    stupid.

  4. Re:ATI video drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm posting this anonymously so I don't reveal what a loser n00b I am...

    I have just spent the last frickin' weekend trying to get the PNY Geforce 6600 GT to work with SuSE 9.2 . Everytime I try to install it reverts to framebuffer without 3D support and half the time I get the system into such a f'd up state that I have to do a clean reinstall to try and get back to a state where I get any form of video at all (using an Apple 23" which seems to be fairly picky and motivated my move from my old 5700 LE card).

    If I try and follow Nvidia's instructions (foregoing the SuSE auto-update which don't seem to work) it claims that rivafb is already installed as a kernal module which may conflicts.

    So sorry for the off-topic rant. However, in the context of this article, if the average bone-head linux user (like myself) can't get 3D support that pretty much sums up the state of linux games for the non-elite.

  5. home desktop by jeif1k · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's bound to change, though: Linux makes a lot of sense for home users.

  6. Re:ATI video drivers by brokencomputer · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I got bit hard by that when I got my laptop"

    I read that as "I got a bit hard about that when I got my laptop."

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