minecraft and team fortress 2 for 3 years.
end of list.
Circa 2015-2016. I was still dual booting Win 10 and Ubuntu at the time. It was a pain in the ass.
Hey, Nexuiz rocked.
What about xbill? Why is noone mentioning it?
Bunch of kids, the whole lot of them!
Kids these days don’t even know about TuxRacer?
Loved that game
I ran a half-life dedicated server on Linux for years!
No one is mentioning Tux Racer? Blasphemy!
WoW runs well under Wine without much trouble.
Beta Minecraft accounts for at least half of all my gaming. I’d be just fine without proton.
Does Teeworld count?
The last time I played that game I was immediately kicked due to “skill issue”
Its good you like it though, I just wish there was local version
10 years ago back in college I mainly ran Ubuntu and did the windows VM with VFIO GPU passthrough to game on a fullscreen windows VM that got full PCI usage of the GPU, was the best of both worlds
OpenTTD worked excellent on Ubuntu on my Dell E5400 back in 2009-2011 or so.
Who remembers Cedega. Had a lot of fun on that, both playing and configuring to play. Think I was running Fedora, or was it Mandrake/Mandriva. Man I remember having the drive to distro hop weekly at one point
So much minecraft and kerbal space program. They were two of the very few games that ran naively and had cracked Linux files available on public trackers. I had to put a minimum of 1000 hours of minecraft using the clit mouse that old Dell laptops used to have. I hate that they got rid of those and now the only modern laptops with the clit mouse are Lenovos which I hate. Lenovo ruined ThinkPads.
The what mouse?
Named so because it’s hard to find and fiddly to use?
Nop, named so because once you learn how to use it properly, you can finish tasks faster and easier than any other plug-in solution. Plus it’s way less awkward than just rubbing randomly all over the trackpad.
Underrated comment
Bravo!
This is poetry
I was in the beta for the original World of Warcraft and restarted when it officially launched. This was 20 years ago, so memory is fuzzy, but somewhere along the way I was playing it in wine exclusively under Linux. Game updates were common and frequently broke wine, but I kid you not a patch was available within 24h. Yes, this forced me to compile my own wine, but it wasn’t that difficult then. Together with “checkinstall” I could maintain a clean .deb package from the source code.
Some links I found in a quick search showing the challenges:
- https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-games-33/world-of-warcraft-in-wine-success-485886/
- https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-311551-start-0.html
To be honest, keeping the game running in Linux sometimes felt as a fun side quest!
After that I was mostly able to play all my games in Linux, with some exceptions, obviously, that sometimes required me to install windows.
