Valve Coming to Linux

[cyclobs]

Linux, windows, Mac, PS3, (possibly xbox as well), etc. Imagine that! code once, available on all platforms with little effort.

That right there shows you have no understanding of opengl

oh? Please enlighten me.

What are the comparisons in visual quality per GPU cycle?


This is all I care about…

youtube "directx vs openGL"

lots of comparison videos around, but all round there isn't that much difference between them. Some argue that openGL is a bit more efficient over directx

edit: Oops broke my post.

[Snootle]

Thinking about giving Linux another whirl.

I'm thinking either Ubuntu or Mint. However Ubuntu has that Unity interface which hasn't really been popular AFAIK.

[cyclobs]

you can still install gnome on ubuntu

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sudo apt-get install gnome

and on top of that you can get rid of unity. I'm planning on doing a bare bone ubuntu install soon so i can run gnome without all the other clutter.

[Hydra]

Unity has gotten better, but you have many other choices too. Gnome is alright (I prefer Gnome2 TBH), XFCE is very light weight, try a bunch of them out in a virtual machine maybe, get a feel for which one you like

[cyclobs]

i don't think I've played with gnome 3 yet, been a while since I've had an desktop install of Linux

[diamondd]

:lol: at the Linux people getting all excited.

Steam is coming to Linux, not necessarily the games. If the games don't support Linux (which is most of them), then don't expect to be playing them just because you have Steam.

It's up to the game developers whether they will support Linux, not Valve. I doubt Steam being on Linux is likely to change the status quo all that much for major developers.

don't want to sound like I'm angry or anything which I'm not, but no ****.

anything that's steamplay at the moment is about 5 minutes away from being linux compatible as well. That's what I'm looking forward to because all the best games (IMO) on steam are steamplay already so we're good to go.

any big name publisher not interested in cross-compatibility can go jump in a fire and honestly all the publishers who fit into that category have already driven me away with their crappy products anyway.

also re:above, openbox ftw!

[Gamer87]

oh? Please enlighten me.

The whole advantage dx has over opengl is the fact that it reduces the workload so much. Unless opengl can come up with(or has comeup with recently) some standard that is accessible alongside all systems, then dx will always be better in this aspect.

[Hydra]

The whole advantage dx has over opengl is the fact that it reduces the workload so much. Unless opengl can come up with(or has comeup with recently) some standard that is accessible alongside all systems, then dx will always be better in this aspect.

OpenGL is for graphics, not for sound or input. The comparison would be between OpenGL and Direct3D.

SDL has been around for ages, http://www.libsdl.org/

[Bek]

Some good news then.

Interestingly, AMD has some release partnership with steam for their drivers yes? AMD drivers aren't that great on linux, so maybe this move will give AMD some more reasons to release decent drivers for linux.

Also openAL is for sound (obviously). I believe openGL often gets the new features before DX? Things like tessellation.

[Hydra]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... d_Direct3D

[PinothyJ]

The whole advantage dx has over opengl is the fact that it reduces the workload so much. Unless opengl can come up with(or has comeup with recently) some standard that is accessible alongside all systems, then dx will always be better in this aspect.

OpenGL is for graphics, not for sound or input. The comparison would be between OpenGL and Direct3D.

SDL has been around for ages, http://www.libsdl.org/

DirectX's Sound and input modules have been depreciated over the years so they do not really count…

[stanna]

regardless of how long its taken since the rumours originaly emerged.. im looking forward to being able to play some source engine games without having to reboot into windows. will save me all of 30 seconds...

plus i can play them at work nativly instead of through wine. win win!

[SgtMoo]

I started giving up on Ubuntu the moment they started integrating social networking stuff as default in the top bar. The Unity interface was the final nail in the coffin. These days my preferred distro is Mint.

On a side note however...prepare for incoming Linux related TF2 hat...

[cyclobs]

On a side note however...prepare for incoming Linux related TF2 hat...

will buy (as much as i hate micro transactions)

[SgtMoo]

will buy (as much as i hate micro transactions)

Was thinking something akin to the earbuds having to play on linux to get it