Any Linux ONLY gamers here?
 

I have been playing games mostly on Linux for the last two years since Steam was ported to Linux. A few months ago I decied to wipe Windows and use that partition for Steam to free up space for /home.

I haven't even booted into Windows 8 for months. That's why I did this. And any Windows games I still play, I use Wine.

So who else here only use Linux for gaming, or at least mostly?

Hi...

Although, I'm on my Windows system most of the time since I received it, I play almost all open source games on it. Chess Titans and Purble Place are really the only two Windows games I play on it. :D Minetest is one of the games I play strictly in Linux, only because it doesn't work that well on the Windows system. This would also include grhino, Emilia Pinball, FLTK Checkers and maybe Frozen Bubble but I only play these once in a while or once in a blue moon, depending on which game. The other games I play (puzzles) are on a Christian web site. :)

Regards...

I just use Steam on Arch these days.

I was using Windows to play Quake II & Quake Live but now I just tend to play CS:GO and a few other Steam games so I don't use Windows at all now.
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I haven't touched anything Windows based since like 2008. I use linux both at work and at home. I don't even remember the last time I used wine and I don't intend to use it in the future. First, I would consider any software that messes up all my default app settings in X without asking so that my text documents want to open in "wine notepad.exe" by default a malware.
Second, I decided a software (game) developer that is not willing to support my OS is not getting my money. I am sick of the "has been reported to work with wine == supports linux => no need for a native linux version" kind of excuses. So, it's 100 linux gaming for me.

Linux only here. There are only two games that I play for which I have to use Wine (Skyrim and Avernum: Escape from the Pit), all other games have native Linux versions.

Me. Native games, Wine, emulators (DosBox, RetroArch and Dolphin) and game engine ports/implmentations (like eduke32, prboom-plus, gzdoom and scummvm) do it for me.

There were times I booted into Windows for specific games, but those have been months apart.

Master I bow to you...

I need Wine since I watch Amazon Prime Video. Plus there are lots of old games I would like to play.

It's the default, true, but if you want to override that default:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-c847...a7dbd4c7ae042a

Personally, I do everything from the command-line, so I never even noticed that any file associations were being changed.

I also pretty much feel the exact opposite about Wine than you do. Let's see:

I have a kernel patch to fix a bug that only affects me when I'm playing games in Wine:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5341760

And I have two open source projects to manage Wine-installed software:

https://github.com/duganchen/wine_env
https://github.com/duganchen/wine_env_fish

The point is that I think Wine is great, and I'm happy to let it improve my life.

This. There are plenty of games out there that never will get a Linux port, for various reasons, and I am happy that Wine gives me (in most cases) the possibility to play them nonetheless on Linux.

Don't get me wrong, I do respect wine and all the incredible amount of work it took to get it where it is, even though I have very negative feelings about changing my default settings like that---I mean why would anyone set it to do that by default and without a warning (if you have valid arguments why that is a good idea I'll be glad to be convinced otherwise) Other than that, I have nothing against wine. I'm also glad it is there. Sure, there's a plenty of issues with it (such as having to install compat-32 packages, many things working only partially, I also remember having multiple games each requiring a different version of wine, ...), but I'm a linux user and I can deal with that.
Technically, I am not against using wine to play windows games that I already have, or older games nobody cares about anymore, but recently I've had bad feelings about buying new windows games---I can't help but feel like I'm encouraging the developers to continue ignoring linux users.
I mean, there have been a lot of new games, recently (even the commercial ones), that have native linux support and the devs really do a put a lot of effort in helping the linux users sort out their problems even if the linux users don't seem to be the most lucrative market out there. So, if I was buying games from those who care and those who don't alike, it would feel like the effort doesn't make any difference to me.
That said, I meant no offence or disrespect to wine or anyone who uses it.

While I agree with you on this, I along with many others would have ditched Windows a long time ago if we could have played current Windows in Wine. That said I do prefer native ports.

Wine runs just about anything that isn't an Xbox One game. Just always be running the latest development release.

That is now. I'm referring to back when I started using Linux.

I totally agree with that, changing settings on the system without notifiying the user, or better, ask if that should be done, is something that shouldn't normally happen, but I would think that it is the package maintainer's responsibility to take care of things like that.I agree with that also. I use it (almost) only for the games I already own and I ask on the developers forum if they want to port to Linux. I only make exceptions for games where the developer can reasonably explain why there won't be a Linux version. For example, I bought Avernum, well knowing that there never will be a Linux version, because the developer had such a reasonable explanation: He is a single developer without Linux knowledge and hiring someone to port the game is financially not feasible for him, which is quite understandable, seeing that Avernum is not a game for the broad masses.

So how many games do you guys have? I myself have 95 Linux games from Steam plus a handful from GOG.com. All brought from the last two years...