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Linspire To Run Windows Games

Posted by Hemos on from the good-move dept.

Ken writes "Aviran's Place reports that Linspire and TransGaming released Cedega for the Linspire desktop Linux operating system, allowing Linspire users to play hundreds of popular Windows-format games right out of the box."

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  1. Cedega and "Out of the box" in the same sentence!? by cybereal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh come now. Just try to install Warcraft III with Cedega.

    I'm serious, that's the only game I was really hoping to play with Cedega when I tried it out. It flopped hard core, yet, WC3 is on their list of supported games with a flag indicating that it is playable.

    Lies.

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  2. Re:Windows just isn't that expensive by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Interesting
    1. I build all my own desktops, and my laptop is a Mac. Hence, I don't already have a copy of Windows.
    2. Windows is not cheap; it's ~$200 retail.
    3. Even if I wanted to spend the money, I sure as hell don't want to sell my soul to the Windows Activation scheme!
    4. Why should I have to reboot my desktop -- which has an uptime of several months -- just to play a game?
    5. Actually, some games run faster under Wine than they do natively. Besides, as long as it's "fast enough" I don't really care if it could be a little faster on Windows.
    6. The way to combat the illegal bundling isn't to bend over and take it, but to refuse to submit.
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