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Steam on Linux - Would you consider the move?
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16-08-2012 8:54am#1
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Steam on Linux???
Rejoyce... spyware is coming to Linux.
Ya......... Hey you know you dont need to install it right?
This can only be a good thing for Linux.
It reminds me of all the Arma2 players wondernig why nobody would play their game, then DayZ came along and people flooded in and all of a sudden they were giving out about the new players... cannot win.0 -
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To be honest, I think Win7 is a terrific OS. Stable fast, does what I need it to...
Yeah, I think the stability issue was conquered with XP tbh. I consider Windows to be a perfectly good OS. Lots of people seem very nervous about Win 8 (Valve included. It seems to be a primary driver for porting to Linux).The last Ubuntu I tried was Heron, I think. 8.04
It has come a long, long way since then.
Automated retrieval and install of latest graphics drivers on an ongoing basis, yada yada.
But yeah, sounds like Windows does what you need it to.
I have only used Win 7 once and found it a bit....chaotic. Lots of stuff flashing at me and demanding my attention. The windows version of skype popped up a little pop up letting me know that I had credit and suggesting that I call one of my friends while I was trying to concentrate on work for example. I nearly punched it in the ear. 0 -
@Verres: get a ubuntu livecd and give it a 30 minutes session. Why? Just to "update" your feelings about linux 0
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The windows version of skype popped up a little pop up letting me know that I had credit and suggesting that I call one of my friends while I was trying to concentrate on work for example. I nearly punched it in the ear.
The skype client for windows has been going downhill for a while.
Valve, if they want to succeed IMO, really need to push for the likes of afterburner to be ported. There's no way I'm gaming without afterburner(and clockgen).0 -
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I have only used Win 7 once and found it a bit....chaotic. Lots of stuff flashing at me and demanding my attention. The windows version of skype popped up a little pop up letting me know that I had credit and suggesting that I call one of my friends while I was trying to concentrate on work for example. I nearly punched it in the ear.
Win7 does need to be "tamed" when installed fresh - there is plenty of noise; no argument there. If Linux has really come on all that much I might burn a liveCD of the latest version and give it a whirl.
I've no idealogical objection to it (and indeed, I think it's a great idea in certain circumstances - as mentioned earlier) it's just that thus far I've had no compelling reason to try it again. Vista raising my blood pressure was the prime reason I tried it before - with Win7 there's no problem with the status quo.0 -
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To be fair in win8 you can switch back to the standard win7 desktop
Not quite... they will give you an "app" (is that even a word now?) that will emulate the old desktop, sans all the bells and whistles of Aero Glass of course, so at best you get the Windows 7 Basic theme without the rounded window corners. Although they have kept the old "fake" Aero Glass look in Windows Setup. 0 -
Oh, on the videos I saw he just pressed an on screen button to bring back the desktop.Not quite... they will give you an "app" (is that even a word now?) that will emulate the old desktop, sans all the bells and whistles of Aero Glass of course, so at best you get the Windows 7 Basic theme without the rounded window corners. Although they have kept the old "fake" Aero Glass look in Windows Setup.
Touch is useless for desktops, I can't realistically use photoshop using touch and we won't be replacing all our monitors at work so they're windows 8 compatible. It looks like it could be a case of skip 8 like vista and wait for them to fix it in the following version.0 -
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Oh, on the videos I saw he just pressed an on screen button to bring back the desktop.
On Screen button, tsk tsk ... they're called Charms* now (Diablo II LoD anyone).
There are a couple of other ways to start the desktop app as well.
* As someone put it, Windows 8 is a clear message from Microsoft to those who referred to Windows XP as "Fisher Price OS": "You ain't seen nothing yet!"0 -
[quote=Verres
]What keeps me from running linux in general is the fact that the OS is the hobby. The OS is supposed to be what you use to do your stuff - it's not supposed to be the stuff you do. Saturday evenings drinking beer and compiling linux drivers is a young mans game.[/quote]
I had been running Debian (Stable) on my laptop for about a year - in this case, the OS was a hobby as it often needed to be tweaked and modified to get certain jobs done. That was fine with me as I wanted to learn how the OS is constructed (and I certainly learned a lot from things going wrong :P). Anyway recently I decided to see how Ubuntu had improved the stability of Unity over the last year or so, and I have to say I've been very surprised by the progress made since 11.04. My wireless card (Broadcom 4313, which was a royal pain in the ass to work with when I first got the laptop), the correct nvidia proprietary driver, printer etc were all installed automatically without any trouble whatsoever. 12.04LTS runs very smoothly, and in my opinion is easily as user-friendly as the latest releases of Windows and OSX. It all makes for a very impressive first experience, and I won't be surprised if curious gamers wanting to give steam on linux a quick go end up sticking around for longer than intended.
I'll just be happy to be playing Portal 2 0 -
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Not quite... they will give you an "app" (is that even a word now?) that will emulate the old desktop, sans all the bells and whistles of Aero Glass of course, so at best you get the Windows 7 Basic theme without the rounded window corners. Although they have kept the old "fake" Aero Glass look in Windows Setup.
Where did you get the idea that the traditional desktop is just an app?
I've turned off metro in W8 using Classic Shell and use the same as I would W7 on my laptop.
Works fine. Quicker than W7 on a n older machine too.0 -
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