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TimeSquirrel , (edited )
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I was playing Quake 3 and Unreal Torunament 2003 in the early 2000s, they had native versions. One of the first mainstream Linux gaming pioneers.

I used to use Second Life on Linux too with a third party client.

parricc ,

The first half of the 2000s was a lot better for Linux gaming than the second half. That time period after game companies stopped releasing anything for Linux but before Wine became realistically usable was very dark.

thehatfox ,
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Quake 2 also had a Linux port, as did Return to Castle Wolfenstein. iD Software was one of the few early supporters of Linux for commercial games.

bjoern_tantau ,
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I bought Tomb Raider 2013 because it was Linux native. Nowadays I recommend people to play the Windows version.

I remember that Unreal Tournament 2003 came with a bootable Linux CD to play the game.

stoy ,

I have the original CD release of UT2004, it has a full Linux installer and worked well on a Dell E5400 running Ubuntu back in 2008-2010 when I was attending LAN perties

kender242 ,
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Still have the quake 3 Linux tin box around here somewhere…

thehatfox ,
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein also had an official Linux port in 2002-ish.

na_th_an ,

I used to play StarCraft II in Wine back in like 2010.

dtrain ,

I read this and was like “pffft….starcraft 2 didn’t come out in 2010 , it was waaaay later”

Then I checked and was like “Well fuck me”

brotundspiele ,

What about xbill? Why is noone mentioning it?

AnUnusualRelic ,
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Bunch of kids, the whole lot of them!

acockworkorange ,

I mean… does Tuxracer and Wesnoth count?

Waffelson OP ,

yes, it does

CommissarVulpin ,

When I was growing up, my dad had a phase where he was experimenting with Linux. He had several installs over the years, Red Hat, Gnome(?), Ubuntu…I remember spending hours playing Tux Racer, SuperTux, Pingus, Chromium BSU…good times.

acockworkorange ,

I’m your father, from a different family.

megabat ,

Oh yeah. Back in the late 90s I played all the games ported by Loki Games. I played the native quakes, portal 1 & 2. And using regular Wine and some winetricks I played about 300 hours of Skyrim and completed Mass Effect 1,2,3.

suzune ,

Yep. Unreal Tournament was also great and Neverwinter Nights.

Marty_TF ,

minecraft and team fortress 2 for 3 years.

end of list.

rickyrigatoni ,

PlayOnLinux was a good friend. Sometimes.

humbletightband ,

Isn’t it now?

Voyajer ,
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Except for all the bad runability reports made to winehq by its users to the appdb

marzhall ,

My eve online circa 2008-10 was on Linux, as well as other not-entirely well remembered attempts dating back to around 2005, when I was more interested in spinny cube desktop. Fglrx and I were well acquainted, but not quite friends.

Swarfega ,

I ran a half-life dedicated server on Linux for years!

recapitated ,

I don’t get it. Is she excited before proton because it was exciting if something actually ran?

Waffelson OP ,

she’s excited because running games before proton was difficult
but your option is also good

recapitated ,

So excited about the challenge, like running the game is a different game than the game?

Waffelson OP ,

Wine Souls

AnarchistArtificer ,

I got a manic vibe, like a similar energy to when you’ve been modding a game for 20x longer than you’ve actually played it, except in this case, it’s not a choice.

ordellrb ,

Ah yes, mostly Portal and Portal2 and LBreakout2

Okami_No_Rei ,
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My last foray into Linux gaming was back in the early-2010s, and I was mostly just trying to get EVE Online to run unsuccessfully. I was running a laptop that was top if the line (in 2009) and my PCs were cobbled together from old Dells and HPs donated by family and friends or retired and given away by my company IT team.

Steam on Linux was nice, and would show you which games in your library had Linux native versions to install. I held out on that and browser gamed for a while. Played a lot of Runescape and Minecraft. Taught myself to code a bit, but didn’t really get anywhere with that.

Eventually I had money and time to put together a “proper” gaming PC, and of course I put Windows on it since I wanted to get an NVidia graphics card as I’d had so much trouble with the AMD drivers on my laptop.

Ran Windows for gaming and kept Linux on the laptop since then. First PC ran Win7, which i loved. Next one ran Win 8, which I hated. Current one was running Win 10, which was meh, and I’ve only soured on it over time. Made the switch back to Linux last week after I got tired of M$ constantly asking me if I want to try Copilot on /both/ my work and personal PCs.

Proton is fucking great. Never going back. The old laptop is still running strong after 15 years. It’s got BunsenLabs installed at the moment.

FMT99 ,

No one is mentioning Tux Racer? Blasphemy!

Gork ,

I once got The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion to run on Ubuntu, but some strange Bethesda bugs managed to creep into the experience. There was a giant 2D tree taking up a chunk of the skybox that I couldn’t get rid of, so I made it headcannon when I was playing it.

Luckily when I tried it on the Steam Deck not too long ago, this bug was no longer present.

Voroxpete ,

So, what you’re saying is you had an early access build of Elden Ring?

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