<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> On 04/25/12 18:02, Don Bosman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4F987483.1000302@msu.edu" type="cite">Life may be getting safer for gamers. I know I'd prefer my son's played Steam games on Linux boxes. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&num=1</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote> I want to be excited about this. I really do. But the state of Linux video support is, well, abysmal. Xorg contains 40 years of code, and I really don't think anything short of a major rewrite is going to make it more effective. Hardware acceleration barely works for "supported" distros out of the box, and there really aren't a whole lot of video cards that are supported at the level most games need to be. Not to mention porting Steam to Linux would probably take quite a while, considering that last I read Gaben was in the stage of "wanting" to hire Linux developers. <div class="moz-signature">-- Taylor Burke Consultant, Zordio LLC (517) 485-2650 x222 </div> </body> </html>