counter strike source with steam on linux.
I changed operating system lately, from windows vista to linux fedora core 7.
I wouldn’t consider this if there would be no chance to install my favourite game on it 
, but i found few articles and noticed some good changes from time i last installed such a system with graphical innterface 
Instalation went smooth, than few updates, few more independent packages and proper graphic drivers. i got lucky because i had just right drivers for new kernel for my nvidia OK, it’s time for wine downloading and installing was easy like hell no ./configure make and make install <jupi>, just with yum (packages installer / manager) install wine. It downloded proper wersion for my kernel and installed it by itself so i could drink coffe and watch . Hell, there was no such thing on red hat 7.2 .
After that i checked if it works…bingo With gnome there were some lags on few games… but on KDE everything went smooth and surprisingly fast. i used this addres to install css with steam and it works perfeclty, performance loss is at about 10% so i cant complain The game looks pretty well, maybe except water :). Mouse is a little bit laggy to, but i must say linux is going the right way to get better.
Oh, and i installed and configured Compiz Fusion with Emerald Theme Manager and i must say that vista sucks
I’ll put some pictures later on.
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Compiz Fusion looks great. But here’s the reality with Linux even nowdays, quoting from that Compiz Fusion video description:
And, since people are asking, I chose to film with a camera since I couldn’t install the screencast plugin (I get compile errors).. can someone tell me the dependencies for it?
How many times does such situation come up with Windows installers? “Never” is quite good approximation. What also amazes me that still people are encouraged to use command line based package managers. Even though there might be graphical interfaces for package managers they are rarely mentioned anywhere on the Linux forums. Graphical package managers have been introduced to Windows users since version 3.1 but still Linux lacks similar consistent installer / uninstaller functionality.
I hope you get your Linux working fine but my guess is that you’ll be back for Windows in less than a year.
Comment :: June 30, 2007 @ 12:00 am
I actually didn’t manage to work on linux for long. I use it in work as a main gateway server cooperating with ms servers and that is enough
so after a month i finished my home adventure 
Comment :: August 19, 2007 @ 12:57 am
What was wrong with it?
Comment :: August 19, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
Whenever i stoped plaing, i had to restart computer to play normal again… every time i entered the game second time i had no controll over my keyb :). Then problems with compiz and emerald, which caused problems with graphics and overall movement on the desktop, i tried so many combinations and configs and only in 1 case things got a little better, later some bugs after compiling some new software, lack of dependencies, no way to find it, and so on and so on … I got tired.
But in work, as a server solution with just a text mode and my rules it’s a wonderful thing, and about that i’ll never change my mind…Linux is great system as a gateway/mail/dns/http/games server. To bad it’s still so - not user friendly for desktop end users [aspecially windows ‘ex’ users]. Anyway as i said in first post, its going slowly in a right way - but still …
Comment :: August 19, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
That is true. Biggest flaw in Linux is still the lack of support for games. Even though Wine and Cedega can run some games it’s still quite random whether they work exactly as they should.
Other than that Linux would be great desktop system. There is everything that “desktop user” needs. Browsers, office programs, good desktop graphical utilities. For programmers there are probably more tools than for Windows.
If you got used to Linux command line utilities (GNU tools) you might want to try http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ . GnuWin32 offers lots of useful tools for those rare special cases when “Linux commands” are needed. People also seem to disregard Windows command line utilities completely.
For server machine there is nothing better than Linux (yes yes, all unix systems are ok). Even at this moment there are so weird firewall rules banning lots of cheaters that it would never be possible in Windows. Also small helpful scripts and utilities are something that cannot be beaten with “all-in-one” Windows programs.
Comment :: August 19, 2007 @ 10:17 pm