GOG Rolls Out Linux Support with Over 50 Games

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GOG is joining the Linux gaming juggernaut, announcing support for Linux with a rollout of 50 DRM-free game titles for download.

Users who buy a Linux-compatible game from GOG will be able to download their games as distro-independent tar.gz archives and/or as DEB installers that will work on Ubuntu or Mint
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Glad to see things finally moving forward on *nix, especially since most of my games are through GOG and Steam now.
 
The power of DOSBox and WINE. lol

The list of games is mediocre even without considering how old most are: http://www.gog.com/games##system_linux=ubuntu,mint

Were you waiting to run DN3D using WINE or Blake Stone using DOSBox on Linux? Then this is probably good. Otherwise, old games and mostly meh indie titles.
 
pxc said:
The power of DOSBox and WINE. lol

The list of games is mediocre even without considering how old most are: http://www.gog.com/games##system_linux=ubuntu,mint

Were you waiting to run DN3D using WINE or Blake Stone using DOSBox on Linux? Then this is probably good. Otherwise, old games and mostly meh indie titles.
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Linux has a long, long way to go in catching up to Windows in PC gaming, but the more push companies make, the better, even if it's anemic like this. The alternative is Microsoft in charge of PC gaming forever, which will not be wonderful if they plan to make good on talk of making Windows 10 cloud-only.
 
Obviously why do they quote numbers and act like it's impressive, because it's not at all impressive what is being ported nor is the numbers. The large guy at the gym doesn't need to tell everyone he's strong everyone already knows.
 
There was no "push" at all. Some of the indie games on the list had native Linux ports for years, and the old games are simply using DOS (DOSBox) or Windows (plain old WINE) emulation.

It's unlikely this cost GOG much to offer (aside of possibly a little QA of known working native/DOSBox/WINE titles under Ubuntu & Mint), but there is literally absolutely nothing new in list. This does nothing to advance gaming under Linux. It's just old stuff that already worked, with some of the titles around 20 years old, and many others over 15 years old.
 
Good, more competition for Steam. Graben hates competition!!!!

On a side note, do these games run any better on Linux? Been hearing people complain about Windows poor performance since Win ME but now that there is really a test that one can run, how does game performance stack up against Linux?
 
Game performance between OSs is completely fabricated.

Hell the common thing people cite valve's Linux port of L4D2 numbers tell you this. Except news community was busy with misinformation and shocker headliners to actually read the post.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

315 FPS - Linux 32-bit
270.6 FPS (Dx9) windows 64 bit
303.4 FPS (OpenGL) windows 64 bit

Pretty meaningless numbers, all it points out is that valve used a newer openGL so reduced overhead compared to that of their directx 9 (with some directx 10 features but not actually dx10) engine used for l4d2, would be pretty much the same results if they just updated their game engine to actually be dx11 and current.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_ubuntu14_win81&num=4
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon_1404_win81&num=4
These links confirm this, value spends so much time misinforming the community about linux so they can tout their steamOS as better. There is negligible difference between linux and windows in terms of performance for games.
 
tetris42 said:
Linux has a long, long way to go in catching up to Windows in PC gaming, but the more push companies make, the better, even if it's anemic like this. The alternative is Microsoft in charge of PC gaming forever, which will not be wonderful if they plan to make good on talk of making Windows 10 cloud-only.
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Microsoft will eventually evolve Xbox to be more like a gaming service like Steam. Why else did they go x86? It certainly wasn't to make developers lives easier, and I'm sure Microsoft hates how people can compare Xbox One to a PC just by looking at specs. Not like the 360 where it was really just a lot of technobabble. Right now there's nothing stopping Microsoft from bringing Xbox One games to Windows.

Don't be surprised if you'll find yourself installing Xbox Online along with Steam and Origin on your Windows PC. Considering how much damage Microsoft has done to PC gaming, I have no internet in supporting them and their console. The move to Linux is slowly getting there.
 
Semantics said:
These links confirm this, value spends so much time misinforming the community about linux so they can tout their steamOS as better. There is negligible difference between linux and windows in terms of performance for games.
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Actually if you wanna know that most if not all of Valve's games ported to linux are slower. Not by a whole lot but they are slower. Even on Nvidia hardware they are a few fps slower compared to Windows. To be fair, Valve is using a D3D to OpenGL translator also known as ToGL, which does slow down games on Linux. Only Portal 2 uses a pure OpenGL implementation, and it's still in Beta.

Just an interesting note, Unreal Tournament 4 uses OpenGL 3.2 or 4.3. It doesn't need 4.3, as I think it's just a performance boost. So it only needs 3.2 which is basically every Directx 10 based graphics card ever made. That's a huge list of graphic cards you can use to play it, even if half of them won't get playable frame rates.
 
Semantics said:
These links confirm this, value spends so much time misinforming the community about linux so they can tout their steamOS as better. There is negligible difference between linux and windows in terms of performance for games.
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LMAO. A single blog post by a developer in 2012 is hardly "spending so much time misinforming the community". Some of you guys seriously need to get a grip.
 
"Linux gaming juggernaut"...

Now that has to be one of the funniest lines I've seen all week...;)

Of all the things Linux is good for, and it is good for plenty, gaming has got be one of the least...;) If you game regularly, you cannot do any better than Windows. It's not even close. If you are not a person who really cares much about computer gaming, Linux is very good for a number of other things.
 
Ashbringer said:
Microsoft will eventually evolve Xbox to be more like a gaming service like Steam. Why else did they go x86?
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It already is like that, and has been since the 360, there are just more options now.
Also, they went x86 (AMD) because it was cheap.

The processor architecture has nothing to do with the services running on top of it.
 
Ashbringer said:
Microsoft will eventually evolve Xbox to be more like a gaming service like Steam. Why else did they go x86? It certainly wasn't to make developers lives easier, and I'm sure Microsoft hates how people can compare Xbox One to a PC just by looking at specs. Not like the 360 where it was really just a lot of technobabble. Right now there's nothing stopping Microsoft from bringing Xbox One games to Windows.

Don't be surprised if you'll find yourself installing Xbox Online along with Steam and Origin on your Windows PC. Considering how much damage Microsoft has done to PC gaming, I have no internet in supporting them and their console. The move to Linux is slowly getting there.
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It's called games for Windows live not xbox online.
 
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