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Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
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Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
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
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 4:01 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 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 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
Ewwwwwwwww... Unity...
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RE: Steam on Linux/Optimus on Linux
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
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
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
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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