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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @03:00AM from the man-this-is-a-long-party dept.

An anonymous reader writes Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has finally been released for Linux two years after its Windows debut. The game is reported to work even on the open-source Intel Linux graphics drivers, but your mileage may vary. When it comes to the AMD and NVIDIA drivers, NVIDIA continues dominating for Linux gaming over AMD with Catalyst where there's still performance levels and other OpenGL issues.

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Re: by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-23 03:23 · Score: 2, Informative

For many people here open source is an important ethical decision, and a GPU driver is kind of a core component for an operating system.
Re:Awesome by theslof · 2014-09-23 03:27 · Score: 4, Informative

Many of the games that are ported to Linux can be found DRM free onb other sites, like Desura, GOG and the Humble Bundle store. Most games are on Steam since that's the best way to get sales on PC.
Re:Beta by VGPowerlord · 2014-09-23 03:34 · Score: 3, Informative

Bugs can be reported here.
You'd better hope that Valve pays more attention to it than the Source-1-Games bug tracker, which is basically ignored at this point.

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Re:Awesome by RenderSeven · 2014-09-23 04:16 · Score: 4, Informative

Related: Microsoft now maintains Linux games.
That remains to be seen, actually...