Steam and Source Coming to Linux Soon, This time it's more than rumours... Options

[GlennsPref]

Thank you for the heads'up, nobody813.

I get the updates and read them, because you post them (different part of life). Thank you.

Yes it's been a year, and the going is good, but It is difficult for me to see that a company would upgrade and old product, when they believe the newer (CS:GO) product is better/ or more desireable to the consumer.

Maybe to play CS:GO you have to have M$, otherwise you wasted your money(, like I did for 2 copies.I have 2 of CS:S and CS:GO) I(t) worked for a while, but when I decided not to pay for buggy software, it nolonger was available. Even If you don't, I think that sux. Plenty of shit programmers driving beemers, l,ol....

This post has been edited by GlennsPref: Apr 1 2013, 08:59 PM

[GlennsPref]

Yes They are doing good,

I feel this when I see the 13yo here with his mates playing CS:S between Win7 and Ubuntu machines with no real latency issues.

I do Like that.

To explain what I said in the last post,

(Like a child...) how come CS:S (halflife2) works and no others? Is not an engine an engine?

Cheers, and I appreaciate your efforts and those of the gaming programmers (my nephew is one(he dosent have a beemer, yet, lol.subaru!)).

I'll sub to OSS, but as with Prop. the more I spend the less I get.

Regards Glenn (in case you thought noone reads your posts) ;-)

[nobody813]

Left 4 Dead 2 Beta On Linux Coming Next Week

I have waited a very long time for this :-D

[GlennsPref]

Me to, but for me it's a step in the direction......for valve games.

[nobody813]

I was looking forward for this too :-)

Portal Beta released

[GlennsPref]

Hi, I got steam and CS:S running with custom skins on my Mageia (RPM based packages) system.

It's really cool, just as good as win7.

I'm getting 260 odd fps with the CS:S video test/benchmark

I have not had to change, or switch off desktop effects to run.

It's Great!

I guess I'll be just as happy when CS:GO is fully converted (not participating in betas atm).

I enjoy the extra competition., online "newbie"... lol. I get smacked down real quick!!

Thanks for the tips and for your interest.

Cheers Glenn, aka GlennsPref105 (Valve)

edit, fridy nite hazzardz...

I have had kubuntu running CS:S, it was a bit more difficult to get it to run on this rpm based system as the steam installer is custom for ubuntu!(apt-get, dpkg)

As usual, GNU/Linux is LOOKING UP!

This post has been edited by GlennsPref: May 10 2013, 05:50 PM

[nobody813]

One that that annoyed me about Counter-Strike: Source in Linux was the removal the the benchmark. Would have been so handy for comparing performance between Linux and Windows

[nobody813]

YES!!!!! Half-Life 2 Games Released For Linux On Steam. That just leaves Left 4 Dead, Portal 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Garry's Mod (Gary has said it'll be here very soon) and DOTA 2 from Valve. Exciting times indeed :-)

[GlennsPref]

that annoyed me about Counter-Strike: Source in Linux was the removal the the benchmark

Well, It's back and competitive.

[nobody813]

that annoyed me about Counter-Strike: Source in Linux was the removal the the benchmark

Well, It's back and competitive.

I did not know that. Last time I launched CS:S it didn't have it. I shall have to do some comparisons then :-)

[Master_Scythe]

Is there somewhere to vote for the next games to be ported?

I want DOTA2 on there and I think I could actually ditch windows!

[TazFromOz]

Is there somewhere to vote for the next games to be ported?

I want DOTA2 on there and I think I could actually ditch windows!

They're already working on it:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dota-2-Conf...Of-333343.shtml

With Portal (Yay!) and Left for Dead out of the way, it will have moved up the list a bit.

[nobody813]

Just downloaded Half-Life 2: Lost Coast in Ubuntu, which also includes an inbuilt benchmark tool, so I shall compare that as well "soon". Though I doubt with my system configuration (Radeon HD 5870) Ubuntu will keep up with Windows, everything I've played so far in Ubuntu has been smooth, which is all that matters really

This post has been edited by nobody813: Today, 12:23 AM