I’m sure many of you Linux gamers out there feel my pain. It’s basically an impossibility to do anything long term (torrents, other downloads, maintain conversations via AIM, IRC, play music) if I want to play this (incredibly addicting) game. The XP install is a bare, firewalled install with a City of Heroes icon in the center of the desktop. I have some games in Linux, but mostly first person shooters (thanks iD and Epic). Nowadays, the -only- game installed on the XP partition is City of Heroes. ![]() It’s that whole “rebooting to play at home” part that I didn’t like, plus the waste of space that the XP install took up. I tend to play LAN-based games of BattleField 1942/Vietnam and the Rainbow Six variety, but since I am bringing my machine to someone’s house to play these, choosing “Windows” in GRUB is no big deal. ![]() I tried WineX (CVS) in the past, and had great success with Diablo II, but didn’t bother to try any ‘new’ games with it. Being a Nintendo (consoles) and Sierra (PC) kid, I’ve gravitated to consoles more lately, but the occasional PC game has kept my interest solidly enough to keep Windows around on a spare drive. ![]() One glaring issue I’ve had since my transition to Linux is video games.
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