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Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?

Posted by Unknown on from the war-games-of-course dept.

skade88 writes "Everyone knows content is king. Many of us use Windows or OS X at home instead of Linux because the games we love just are not available on Linux. With Steam moving forward for a Linux launch, I would like to hear from the Slashdot community on this topic. What are the game(s) you cannot live without? If they were available in Linux would you be happy to run Linux instead of Windows or OS X?"

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  1. Re:None. by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    By a curious coincidence, none at all is exactly how much suspicion the ape-descendant Arthur Dent had that one of his closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was in fact from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he usually claimed.

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  2. Think we can get the developer to port this? by ArhcAngel · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Halo series?

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  3. Re:Guild Wars 2 by Nutria · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nethack-x11.

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  4. We know it's you by ndogg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, come on, Gabe, we know it's you. ;)

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  5. Re:Microsoft Office by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then what format should one use for "important documents" that are intended to be editable?

    (La)TeX

  6. Re:Sound subsystem fragmentation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hey look!

    A Slashdot Linux story is full of FUD-spreading shills and mindless trolls.

    Quel surprise!

  7. Re:This is a loaded question by MurukeshM · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I should cut off my arms and legs and use prosthetics just cause I need to use pliers every now and then?

  8. Re:Guild Wars 2 by Nostromo21 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Nethack already runs on Linux & most other toasters
    2. Nethack, after you've played it a handful of times, is more of an obsessive compulsive disorder, rather than a game
    3. Nethack is to 'real' gamers what Excel is to real programmers :)

  9. Re:Guild Wars 2 by rishistar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, my personal fave text adventure game on Linux was xorg.conf. Spent hours on it. Way ahead of its time it was also the only text game I can think of with dual monitor support. Or not, as they case may be.

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