The Sims was also available for Linux, ever so briefly, thanks to Transgaming's "WineX technology" (later renamed to "Cedega" ). Quoting: mylkahave you thought linux would ever have AAA titles like tomb raider or hitman? Imagine if Steam Machines had had this Steam Play feature and games running Vulkan-there might have been quite a bit more uptake, although there were other issues. I still think there could be a re-release of Steam Machines in the works-although given Valve time, probably not right away. Pieces have been coming together gradually, some of them with strong encouragement from Valve, and now they're in place-or, close enough that getting this thing going is less a disappointment and more an impetus to making it more solid. It's not just that Wine wasn't ready, graphics drivers weren't ready, Vulkan wasn't there. Back then it simply wouldn't have worked. but it's more making a virtue of necessity. But I think the future is bright.I think the timing isn't quite so ingenious as you suggest. How many will be convinced, though, remains to be seen. Only now, when porting to Linux is an established practice, thanks to this feature – which seemed obvious to me already around 2013–2014 that it’d be needed to convince more people to use Linux / Steam Machines – Valve, I believe, will actually bring new players to Linux. Valve already brought some publishers to Linux, in doing so proved that porting to Linux is technically feasible, that games do work on Linux, and that distros diversity isn’t really a problem. It also made Feral and Aspyr focus on porting to Linux.Īnd only now, after releasing native Linux version became a pretty standard practice (at least for some game publishers) and stopped being a weird exotic exception to overwhelming number of Windows-only releases, only after over 3 thousand games on Steam have native versions, they release built-in Proton that allows one to install and play the remaining Win-only games. Instead, Valve kept Steam on Linux without an easy play-Windows-games-on-Linux mode for 5–6 years, during that time they’ve released SteamOS which did not provide any easy way to install non-native games (one had to manually install Wine and separate Windows version of Steam for that), and that forced quite a few developers who did not want to be left out of Valve’s new platform to actually start properly supporting Linux. Perhaps SteamOS could gain a bit more popularity that it did in reality, but I don’t think it would be a great success in this scenario either… If they had done this – provided their own Wine for launching non-native games – when they launched SteamOS, I think what would have happened would be lack of native Linux releases – most developers would be happy they are on SteamOS thanks to translation layer, perhaps they would put some effort to ensure their Windows game is Wine-friendly, but that’s all. Quoting: silmethRegarding the Linux ports… I find it pretty ingenious that Valve released the Proton-for-Steam-Play now. Speaking of Mandrake, there was also (more recently) a Mandriva edition bundled with Transgaming's Cedega and Flatout. Nobody remembers this shit but me?I do remember. They even bundled it with Mandrake Gaming Edition. Some are Windows versions with binaries released after the fact, some are ports published specifically for Linux (usually by Loki or LGP), and some had the binaries on the disc alongside the Windows version. Here are just a few of what I played back in the day: Civilization: Call to Power, Descent 1-III, Neverwinter Nights, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament (and 2003, and 2004), FreeSpace 2, Heretic II, Soldier of Fortune, Heroes of Might & Magic III, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Majesty Gold, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Postal 1+2, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Railroad Tycoon II, Rune, Serious Sam: The First/Second Encounter, Sim City 3000 Unlimited, Sacred: Gold Edition, and more. During the first big wave of Linux gaming, starting around 2001, we had a bunch of great games, including some pretty big titles, years before Steam even existed. Quoting: adolson Quoting: mylkahave you thought linux would ever have AAA titles like tomb raider or hitman?
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