If you wish to play games on a Unix box (of which Linux is based on) then it depends what games you plan on playing. As differnet games are suited for a specific kernal verison and/or type.

Please specify game name(s), unless the previous answers nailed it for you.

Permalink Reply by vallhalla81 on April 29, 2009 at 6:47am

it also depends on your understanding of linux as all distros work well for gaming if you know what you are doing if you can give me some info on what sort of games you would like to play i am sure i can help you out

Permalink Reply by Sharavsambuu on April 29, 2009 at 8:53am

Hello.
i like to play games like Counter Strike, Nexuiz etc. I wish to become game developer. But i dunno how produce game character data. Can u give me any info?

Sorry for my bad English!

Permalink Reply by TimmyG on May 17, 2009 at 3:09pm

I use Ubuntu 9.04 x64. I play all my games on it using Cedega which works perfectly fine for me. I use WINE for everything that isn't a game... well, if it's something that I have to use. Just about any program I could need has it's linux equivalent. But Ventrilo for example, is only for windows and that's the chat program everyone uses for WoW so I have to use that. I installed it in WINE and it works fine. Don't need windows for squat.

Permalink Reply by Dust on July 11, 2009 at 5:34pm

he refering at pc games.. i guess, well if you have an intel based machine..any distro is good, just need wine, cedega or crossover.
and the right knowledge, at least on how to install those stuff on your distro..
or for ppl that are totally noobs, there are some distro with all stuff already built-in, like modded ubuntu, linux mint hmm is modded ubuntu too...sabayon, gOS and few others

"Counter Strike, Nexuiz..." no problems for those

Permalink Reply by Dust on July 12, 2009 at 5:02am

that is no more that another rip of wine

Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on July 12, 2009 at 5:11am

This is what I use:
live.linuX-gamers.net is a Linux gaming live distribution: "boot 'n play"
http://live.linux-gamers.net/
http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=download

The following games are included on the most recent release of live.linuX-gamers

Games that are bold are only contained on the "big" (DVD) release.

* armagetronad
* astromenace
* blobby
* chromium-bsu
* extremetuxracer
* foobillard
* frozen-bubble
* hedgewars
* lbreakout2
* pingus
* quadra
* smc
* teeworlds
* worldofgoo-demo
* xmoto
* btanks
* fretsonfire
* glest
* maniadrive
* neverball
* neverputt
* nexuiz
* openlierox
* sauerbraten
* scorched3d
* supertuxkart
* torcs
* tremulous
* urbanterror
* warsow
* warzone
* wesnoth
* widelands
* worldofpadman

Permalink Reply by robert f (noobusinglinux) on July 16, 2009 at 10:47am

try installing wine on your system it works with fedora and i think kubuntu

www.winehq.org/

Permalink Reply by Mikux on October 8, 2009 at 3:39am

From my experience, if you're a hardcore gamer, you don't want any distro as your primary OS. Wine is still very buggy in some cases, and while Linux in general has become much more gamer friendly, you are still best off with a dual boot box.

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