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Hi Booman! Just a question: are you using Mint 17, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04? And if so, does it all work well as it should? Because in this case something in the latest Ubuntu, which is supposed to be a safe and stable version given its LTS status, must be seriously wrong.

Despite my pessimism, I am very pleased to report that with Manjaro everything works! Basically I didn't do anything, even the driver (331.79), the latest stable one if I am not mistaken, was installed and configured automatically. I simply copied the games and even Metro Last Light works; by...

@allenskd I will try first with Manjaro and the 331.79 driver which was installed by default. I don't expect this operation to be successful, given the performance of the same driver on Ubuntu. In this case, I will reinstall 14.04 with the latest beta driver, as you suggest. As soon as I have...

Apparently my GPU is not as good as I was led to believe. I had tried Manjaro earlier in the year (you may remember helping me getting Chessmaster to work:)) but regrettably I had to remove it because, no matter what workaround I tried, I was not able to solve the problem of video tearing...

Daerandin and allenskd, thank you both for the quick and very detailed replies. First of all, the specs of my system are Intel Core i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz 8G RAM Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti As I wrote, on another disk Ubuntu 12.04 is running very well, with many games installed on Steam and even...

On the second hard disk of my main desktop a couple of days I installed Ubuntu 14.04 (on the first one I still have 12.04 working flawlessly). After updating the system, I installed first the Nvidia driver 331.38 from the repository and then Steam; so far so good, as usual, tested the whole...

Can anyone tell me how steep is the learning curve for this game? Is there a possibility to learn how to play before going online and, mostly likely in my case, be insulted by a 13 old boy for being a complete noob?:D

I think the answer to your question could be ReactOS, but this project is still in alpha stage after many years of development. They actually rely on Wine to implement Windows API functionality but, from the little I know, so far only very few and old games can run on ReactOS. Anyway, if you...

I am not so sure that Reddit is the right site to celebrate the 100(plus) guides posted on GamersOnLinux. The section LinuxGaming is full of people that simply hate the concept of Wine and downvote any information about games that are non native. For them promoting Wine (and PlayOnLinux)...

Booman, probably you have already seen this on Reddit or some other site, but now we know that the new Unreal Tournament will have Linux support and will be free. Of course, remembering very well their shameful behavior with UT3 for Linux, I will believe when I see it, but it seems to be a very...

Hi Booman, you forgot GOG, Codemaster, WMD Portal (look at the Steam OS logo) and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Furthermore, Epic Games is working to reboot Unreal Tournament using Unreal Engine 4.1 (which supports Linux), although some guys at Beyond Unreal think it will be only a console game.

Personally I never had any audio problems with Ubuntu 12.04; I will certainly upgrade it to 14.04 with Gnome Shell as my main DE, but I will also try to make Unity (which I really dislike) to look like this (instructions can be found here - second comment). I will also test, in another...

Thank you for the link Booman but for me this is a dilemma. I had already Doom 3 working natively very well on Linux (it had an audio problem, but a command line trick found on the Net fixed that nicely). Than I found out that the BFG edition ran flawlessly with PlayOnLinux, allowing me to...

Looking at your screenshots, I thought this was a new(ish) game (I had never heard of it before), so I was surprised, after a little Google search, to find out that it was released in 2003! So thank for the guide, I am sure I will be able to find it on Amazon or E-bay for a few bucks.

Interesting discussion, but I don't know if you guys were aware of the existence of Ubuntu Christian Edition? I don't know if it follows all Ubuntu releases, but I was able to find an Youtube video on UCE 12.04.

I have a couple of questions for you: is it possible to erase ChromeOS before installing ChrUbuntu (what a sh...y name) by formatting the hard drive, like in a normal laptop? Is Unity (which I hate with a passion) the only available DE (I know it is only a shell) or can it be replaced by...

@booman Still crashing here! As soon as Ubuntu 14.04 comes out, I'll try Desura once again hoping for a different outcome, although it is not critically important, since there are practically no games on that service that interest me at the moment.

I think the best explanation is from liamdawe, the owner of the excellent GaminOnLinux website:

Yes, it works offline for me as well. The crashes happen when you click on the page of a game to get some information (or to buy it). On the Reddit page I linked earlier, there is conflicting advice, with a couple of guys suggesting to replace Desura with Desurium and other claiming that the...

This is a copy and paste from a post of mine on reddit/r/linux_gaming: After a couple of months not logging in, yesterday I tried to buy a game on Desura, but every time I clicked on that page the service immediately crashed. Same thing on every other game page I clicked, so I checked their...