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Posted April 14, 2012
Full time Linux user here.
Posted June 10, 2012
Linux user here (Debian testing / KDE).
Posted June 10, 2012
I am a part time Linux user who enjoys booting Linux Mint KDE via a USB stick over booting Windows 7 on his laptop. Strangely enough, booting Linux Mint KDE is also faster on the computers at my university as opposed to waiting for Windows 7 to start up, but that is a story for another time!

I could see myself becoming a full time Linux user if my favorite digital distributor started distributing Linux versions of the games we love so much. My favorite game, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, has a Linux version which GOG doesn't provide unfortunately. Unreal Tournament 2004 and Neverwinter Nights have Linux versions as well, but are nowhere to be found on GOG. Practically every indie game these days has a Linux version, but does GOG provide them? No!

People far more knowledgeable than I seem to provide easy solutions and even offer to help GOG out in the process of introducing Linux. Now that Steam is coming to Linux, I would hate for GOG to fall behind when it is my preferred digital distributor. I just hope things change soon.
Posted June 10, 2012
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Future_Suture: I am a part time Linux user who enjoys booting Linux Mint KDE via a USB stick over booting Windows 7 on his laptop. Strangely enough, booting Linux Mint KDE is also faster on the computers at my university as opposed to waiting for Windows 7 to start up, but that is a story for another time!

I could see myself becoming a full time Linux user if my favorite digital distributor started distributing Linux versions of the games we love so much. My favorite game, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, has a Linux version which GOG doesn't provide unfortunately. Unreal Tournament 2004 and Neverwinter Nights have Linux versions as well, but are nowhere to be found on GOG. Practically every indie game these days has a Linux version, but does GOG provide them? No!

People far more knowledgeable than I seem to provide easy solutions and even offer to help GOG out in the process of introducing Linux. Now that Steam is coming to Linux, I would hate for GOG to fall behind when it is my preferred digital distributor. I just hope things change soon.
Welcome aboard the wagon. In case you hadn't noticed many game specific forums will have someone disusing if a game is working using wine or not. If you are interested in a game and don't see one ask the question, "does it work with wine," and see what you get. There are also some lists on the forums trying to log which games work.

And in the case of UT2004 there are a few threads in the UT forum about getting the GOG version to work as a Linux native. I just reinstalled my Disc copies, and like always, have had annoying issues swapping discs. It almost sounds easier to rebuy the GOG version and convert it which sounds like it boils down to using wine to extract the files and write the CD key so you can find it, and then copying over the game using the most recent Linux patch.

I've been surprised by how many games I have running just fine these days from GOG. Not that they all do.
Posted June 10, 2012
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gooberking: I've been surprised by how many games I have running just fine these days from GOG. Not that they all do.
Yes, Wine matured quite a lot lately.
Post edited June 10, 2012 by shmerl
Posted June 10, 2012
Though I am still using windows, I have been considering switching to Mepis linux!
Posted June 10, 2012
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gooberking: I've been surprised by how many games I have running just fine these days from GOG. Not that they all do.
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shmerl: Yes, Wine matured quite a lot lately.
I agree. Wine 1.4 and newer seem to run many GOG released games without issue. Sadly AMD graphics card drivers can be a little disappointing for example, no Assassin's Creed without beta drivers (WineHQ Bug 23683) or textures flicker / missing (WineHQ Bug 2466) or the constant crashing of Portal 1 and 2 (WineHQ Bug 26863). If you have patience or a Nvidia card then Wine as excellent.

It would be nice if GOG started with a Linux forum or maybe even a link between WineHQ AppDB and the games sold here as a strictly unofficial, not officially supported Linux rating.
Posted June 10, 2012
Oh, that's a good idea (referencing WineHQ App DB) I can add to this list:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/linux_support_on_gog
Post edited June 10, 2012 by shmerl
Posted June 10, 2012
I have 3 (really old) laptops, one with XP one with Mac OSX and lastly Linux.

The XP one is pretty much the only one that is powerful enough to run anything good though..
Posted June 10, 2012
I'm not sure what to say, I'm a Linux user, i.e. most of the machines I use daily have some flavor of Linux on them, but I still use Windows 7 on my gaming rig. I suspect I'll pick up an iOS device here in the near future because I'm curious about the current "ecosystem" on iOS (both professionally and personally).
Posted June 10, 2012
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nullzero: It would be nice if GOG started with a Linux forum or maybe even a link between WineHQ AppDB and the games sold here as a strictly unofficial, not officially supported Linux rating.
I got a wish for that. Someone had talked about it once so I took initiative and made an entry.
http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/alternative_os_forum_linux_mac

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orcishgamer: I'm not sure what to say, I'm a Linux user, i.e. most of the machines I use daily have some flavor of Linux on them, but I still use Windows 7 on my gaming rig. I suspect I'll pick up an iOS device here in the near future because I'm curious about the current "ecosystem" on iOS (both professionally and personally).
I've seen you talk Linux before, I'm counting you in, as long as some of that use is personal, even though (if I recall correctly) you tend to prefer the ease of gaming on Windows to the alternative.
Post edited June 10, 2012 by gooberking
Posted June 10, 2012
I dual boot with Win 7 and Ubuntu.

Seeing Linux versions of games here on GOG would be great, so I hope they can provide that in the future.
Posted June 10, 2012
The thread has arisen! Enough for me to see that I haven't raised my hands. I use both. Linux doesn't work well for me on the desktop anymore, though I run it on my MythTV box (which doubles as an "everything" server). I use Mac for the desktop, and mostly VMs for gaming.

My one exception is trying to get Rayman 2 running on the big TV. Just recently I discovered I got the transparent stuff to show up via an upgrade, though I don't think wine does HDMI audio yet, if I read correctly.

I'm pleasantly surprised at the amount of Mac native (multiplatform) games available these days though, especially Steam stuff and Humble Bundles.
Posted June 10, 2012
Ubuntu/Windows dual-boot here.

I use Windows mostly for games, to watch some videos online and to test my web apps with IE.
Posted June 10, 2012
hoping that the steam on linux rumors are true here
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