Re:Valve starts promoting Steam for Linux to Windows users
by FredFredrickson on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @11:18AM
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Have you spent much time with Linux TF2? Any idea if it's more or less stable than the Windows / OS X builds?
Re:Valve starts promoting Steam for Linux to Windows users
by robotmay on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:18PM
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It's not quite as stable yet. First time I played it ran flawlessly (and at the same speed as it does under Windows). Since then I've had a few issues like excessive screen tearing and missing audio, but they're not too bad for what is still considered a beta.
Just for rough specs; both my Windows 7 64-bit & Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit installs have their own SSD (Samsung 830), on an i5 2500k/8GB RAM/nVidia 560TI machine. TF2 is installed on both the SSDs.
Re:Valve starts promoting Steam for Linux to Windows users
by FredFredrickson on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @04:33PM
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Interesting, thanks! I use Windows mostly, but I dabble in Ubuntu every now and then as well, and I might have a spare computer soon, so I though I'd give it a try. Didn't want to bother with it if it wasn't ready for prime time though.
Give it a few years though; I think there'll be a slow trickle of games for a while, but it'll start to ramp up as some of the bigger studios realise there's a market there.