Linked by Steve Husted on Mon 13th Sep 2004 08:28 UTC
Linux gaming. Let's face it - it's terrible. Tux Racer? Please. Quake III, okay, I'll give you that. NeverWinter Nights? If you can get it to work. WINE? If you have enough hair left to pull out, WINE is a good choice.
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Linux as far as I can tell has superiour 3D performance than windows does. I usually find my gaming experience a lot faster and smoother under Linux than I do on windows.
I actually think Linux is a much better platform for games than windows because everything is portable, not the other way around, most libraries are written to go cross platform (we are talking hardware here people!) so you don't even really need to optimise your code (although I still would).
There is no excuse now, we know developers can do it and its starting to show with big titles moving onto linux.
NWN2, Doom 3, there are even rumours of HL2 being ported to Linux!