Yet another reason to lament the lack of decent mouse driver support in GNU/Linux. As long as I have to relearn how to move my mouse in order to play a game, I'm going to keep a Windows box handy for games.
Portal Released For Steam On Linux
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Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#12Sweet. Now hopefully they bring DOTA2 over next. That game will lead to a ton of Linux switchers!
And all my productivity evaporating.
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#13How long before Steam for Android? And Portal for Android?
Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#14It's the slow move from the Operating System to the GPU code; most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help. I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game developers more towards the Windows platform?
PC game developers could hardly be wooed any further in that direction. A game being released for Linux two years after Windows is hardly an imminent threat.
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Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#15It's the slow move from the Operating System to the GPU code; most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help. I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game developers more towards the Windows platform?
PC game developers could hardly be wooed any further in that direction. A game being released for Linux two years after Windows is hardly an imminent threat.
It's not a matter of when it was released, but that it's an indication that Valve is porting its Source engine to Linux. It looks like Future Valve games are going to be released on all three platforms simultaneously, which is a pretty big win for Linux.
Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#16Yet another reason to lament the lack of decent mouse driver support in GNU/Linux. As long as I have to relearn how to move my mouse in order to play a game, I'm going to keep a Windows box handy for games.
I don't follow?
Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#17How long before Steam for Android? And Portal for Android?
Well steam is already on android, just no games
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#19Sweet. Now hopefully they bring DOTA2 over next. That game will lead to a ton of Linux switchers!
Yup, I've been waiting for Dota2 on Linux steam for a few months now (getting the game to work via Wine & an ATI graphics card was one of the first things I spent hours figuring out after getting my linux box! http://www.hkmurakami.com/blog/2013/022_dota2_linux.html)
Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#20Yet another reason to lament the lack of decent mouse driver support in GNU/Linux. As long as I have to relearn how to move my mouse in order to play a game, I'm going to keep a Windows box handy for games.
I don't follow?
I think may be referring to products such as:
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga-epic
"System Requirements PC or Mac with USB port Windows® 8/ Windows® 7 / Windows Vista® / Windows® XP (32-bit)/ Mac OS X (v10.6-10.8)"
I enjoy the ability to fully utilize my right hand and minimize the amount of movement I do to and from the mouse, both for work and general computing.
Depending upon what you want from your mouse ( in the case of the naga, do you want custom binding of macros to buttons beyond a numeric keypad? => if so you need the driver support :( )
A good alternative that I use on my linux machines is: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-lachesis/
Which has its own memory to retain macros(can be a pain to load, I have typically used windows VMs w/ drivers :/)