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Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
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Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 9, 2013 at 12:41 am (This post was last modified: June 9, 2013 at 12:48 am by Autumnlicious.)
So I've succeeded in sharing my Windows Steam directory with my Ubuntu install.

With bumblebee and primus, I've got access to my Optimus GT420m secondary GPU on my laptop.

Fucking rad.

I can develop in a POSIX environment with a real shell and play games now (Starcraft 2 almost works in Wine -- slight issue with matchmaking...)

And I can easily go back to Windows and share game data, documents via NTFS-3G on Archive partition.

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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 9, 2013 at 4:01 am
Err... congratz on getting wine and ntfs-3g working!
Now, go play Nethack.
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 9, 2013 at 4:05 am
(June 9, 2013 at 4:01 am)pocaracas Wrote: Err... congratz on getting wine and ntfs-3g working!
Now, go play Nethack.
Or dwarf fortress Wink

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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 9, 2013 at 6:51 am
(June 9, 2013 at 4:01 am)pocaracas Wrote: Err... congratz on getting wine and ntfs-3g working!
I'm pretty sure Steam is available as a Linux binary now, so wine isn't necessary. Also, Linux has had pretty good NTFS support for a few years now.
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 9, 2013 at 7:14 am
(June 9, 2013 at 6:51 am)Tiberius Wrote:
(June 9, 2013 at 4:01 am)pocaracas Wrote: Err... congratz on getting wine and ntfs-3g working!
I'm pretty sure Steam is available as a Linux binary now, so wine isn't necessary. Also, Linux has had pretty good NTFS support for a few years now.

Yep... so the accomplishment here is getting windows STEAM and linux STEAM to use the same directory through ntfs-3g?
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 9, 2013 at 9:53 am
Ewwwwwwwww... Unity...
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 9, 2013 at 7:38 pm
Yes, it's linux steam.

Windows Steam is a disaster through Wine on an NTFS file system due to file corruption (documented on Valve wiki). My shared partition for all three OS (Windows 7, Ubuntu, Snow Leopard) is NTFS.

I have wine operating for Starcraft 2 (Sound has a slight delay/wah-wah effect and match making takes well over 50 seconds to do anything like load a race selection panel before I give up).
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 18, 2013 at 2:00 pm
It looks very easy but i don't think these things are really tough, i can't use linux it's just not my thing.
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 19, 2013 at 3:40 pm
ah unity I switched it with gnome 3.8 much better but im still waiting for fedora 19 arrival

Dude Moros do you want to play team forterss 2 ?

p.s: starctaft 2 heart of the swarm anyone wants to play?
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
June 21, 2013 at 12:20 pm
I'm not a fan of TF/CSS/L4D.

I've really enjoyed HL2 and mods. I'm currently investigating if there is a way to create a Source DLL to Linux SO shim, like Mplayer and ADOM Sage did for Linux, Windows.

I'd rather play Black Mesa on Linux than Windows.

According to random-ascii, Linux is faster performing than Windows in several areas.
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