Does Linux do games well?

[Matt Alexander]

Several years ago when I was completely addicted to StarCraft, I played it
through Wine on Linux.  It worked fine.  Just make sure you have a zippy
computer.
~M


On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, slr wrote:

> one other thing, check out transgaming's Wine-X project. they have been able
> to run many of the current gaming titles, but from what i have read on the
> benchmarking the performance is very poor compared to the Native Linux games
> or its Windoze counterpart.
>
> slr
>
> On Tuesday 18 June 2002 02:24 pm, Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> > How good is linux for games?
> >
> > Linux has a rep for running more efficiently on older hardware than W*.
> > Is there a website that lists games available to linux and minimal hardware
> > needed for them?
> >
> >
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