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Do You Want To Play A Game? On Linux?

The biggest reason people shy away from Linux is definitely gaming. However what they don’t realize is that there are really some great Linux Native games out there. And a lot of games that run under windows can be ran under Linux under Wine.

I’m going to take you through a tour of the games I have tried running and give you an idea of the stuff that is out there. Please bear in mind I am running this all  on my Acer 5720Z, which I have some issues with some games, but that has no bearing on the OS per se. It’s more the graphic drivers that are available for the Intel 965 Graphics built into it at this time. There are newer drivers that are out, however I had experienced some issues with the unstable kernel they were running under so I had wound up reinstalling everything back to before making that switch. Anyway read on for the tour of gaming on Linux…
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