I finally got Steam running on Linux after a night of battling with WINE. I guess I could have taken the easy way out by subscribing to Cedega, but I wanted to see if I can get it running on my own first. I may still have to get Cedega in order to get some display issues ironed out in DoD. I feel like I have some weird wall-hack on when I play DoD thanks to some textures not rendering correctly.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Gnome and Steam are not friends. The system tray icon for Steam doesn’t show up properly and it’s a nightmare to try to minimize the steam windows once a game is running. I booted into xfce and WINE worked fine there. I considered just making xfce my default session, but I think I’ve grown accustomed to gnome and if I change my home computer, I’d have to change my work computer because I’m OCD like that.
I hope this is the end of my love/hate (more like hate/hate) relationship with Windows.
Well … Happy Thanksgiving.
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I tried out Steam a while back when I subscribed to Cedega, and it worked pretty well then, but that was before HL2.
I was worried that I would lose much of the DX9-specific stuff the Source engine offers, but I think most of it is covered by the Cedega specific code – it’d be interesting to see how much better (if any) Cedega renders DoD… I may well resubsribe to Cedega yet!