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:DesktopLinux: Linux Gaming: Don't Sell your Xbox
DesktopLinux: Linux Gaming: Don't Sell your Xbox
Dec 1, 2006, 01 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6633 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

"Over at ExtremeTech, my colleague in crime, Jim Lynch, took a long, hard look at Linux gaming and declared, 'Frankly, I've had it with gaming under Linux. It's not worth the time or the effort.'

"It's not that you can't run WoW (World of Warcraft) on Linux. With the latest CrossOver Office beta, you can do exactly that. Indeed, Lynch found that running World of Warcraft 'ran so well that I began to get distracted from writing this review and started to get sucked into the world of Azeroth. I kept playing and didn't even realize that I was running WoW in a window on my KDE desktop in PCLinuxOS...'"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Keep your Xbox and play with it instead  ...   Fine!   
da
Dec 1, 2006, 01:29:52
 
The cost of computing is artificially hi ...   That is the point   
GerardM
Dec 1, 2006, 07:37:31
 
 Buy indeed a console and a decent compu ...   Re: That is the point   
GreyGeek
Dec 1, 2006, 15:05:27
 
I can't help but notice that this se ...   Interesting parallel   
Cybertron
Dec 1, 2006, 17:14:16
 
I have no trouble with games on my Linux ...   Games work just fine in Linux   
Grishnakh
Dec 1, 2006, 17:23:59
 
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