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... and if not, how far away are we?

A few years back it seemed like Wine/Cedega might soon reach the stage where I could buy any game for windows, not long after release day, and run it with little or no hassle under Linux.

Has this happened yet? How much performance is lost? Can I run Steam? Are more major games being released for Linux nowadays? Is this more likely to eventuate than a near-perfect Cedega (or for that matter, VM) solution?

I poked around on the Cedega site but found enough marketing-speak to realise I'd need to ask here to get a straight answer.

I think this question has some relevance to a lot of people who want to go to Linux, but are sticking with Windows for the games.

Update: Steam for Linux confirmed!
Looks like Steam for Linux is going to be a big step in the right direction. Possible game changer for this problem.

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No. It will never be as long as Linux is unsupported by hardware manufactures.

You're acting as if this were just a matter of software support, but the fact of the matter remains that modern hardware support on Linux is poor if not non-existant.

Essentially, by the time there's stable Linux drivers available for some hardware component *ahem* graphics card */ahem*, there's most likely many things that are newer and faster available for Windows, which you'll need to run newer games well.

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So you're saying the drivers are years behind? I thought since NVidia has unified drivers for *nix (nvidia.com/object/unix.html), that's not a problem now; as in I could just buy the latest NVidia GPU and it would work, no probs. Is this wrong? Is the GPU driver issue a bigger obstacle than the software issues at the moment? – MOwen Mar 18 at 4:19
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You can't play latest games like Starcraft2, Halflife2, Battlefield etc. You could play games like 7+ years old.

Both wine and Cedega don't allow to play latest games. Also virtulisation (e.g. Sun Virtualbox) is too slow for games.

But there are plenty of free games of many genres. Also web browser games are perfect. There are many games that could be played alone or in company (e.g. skype, or other voice communication).

PS: i personally stay with WinXp, and will probably migrate to Ubuntu after few years. I hope there will be enough team games (and especially people who play them) for me.

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