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Anyone else want this? I mean, they already made the crossover to UNIX based systems (OS X), so Ubuntu support shouldn't be hard. So, are there any other Linux users here?
Poll: Do we want a Linux port for Sc2?Yes, I would LOVE to play Sc2 on Linux without bugs! (749) 93% I really don't care. Windows for the win! (34) 4% Linux is stupid! (10) 1% No, I have some other way of running sc2 (8) 1% I really don't care. OS X for life! (6) 1% 807 total votes Your vote: Do we want a Linux port for Sc2? (Vote): Yes, I would LOVE to play Sc2 on Linux without bugs!
(Vote): No, I have some other way of running sc2
(Vote): I really don't care. Windows for the win!
(Vote): I really don't care. OS X for life!
(Vote): Linux is stupid!
If you want to help the movement, just post, keep this thread alive!
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A lot of people are linux users <3 I myself tried, worked fine but didn't get any sound... kinda anoying. If anyone has a solution to this... But with wine, or even POL, it works fine if you take out the sound issue
Anyway I think this thread deserved to be moved to tech ? Or I may be wrong ?
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I thought about putting it in tech, but this is less of a question, more of a (hopeful) petition for native Linux support. And yeah, wine kinda sucks. I have a good graphics card, so it's not terrible. But have to connect my laptop through an ethernet cable (centrino is being difficult), so I keep windows handy.
Let's get native support.
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You can run SC2 in wine, quite easy to do.
You need a slightly higher power computer to run the same graphics settings though.
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Linux people woudnt necessarly buy the game would they?
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use development version of wine
also I used to use linux (full time), until around windows 7 cause of other games that didn't work on wine...
(Ubuntu, Arch Linux, etc)
as for blizzard supporting linux -> so then how would blizzard decide between supporting like centos, fedora, linux mint, ubuntu, debian, arch linux, red hat, gentoo, ... (hint: it's not feasible), although a case could be said to support only through bigger corporations (narrowing it down to redhat/fedora and ubuntu systems), but then... given the overall linux playerbase, and how many players you'll be narrowing it down to when you go by corporations...
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*** please note that even then I doubt they'll give the source, which results in them giving a binary file, which also introduces a symlink hell/library hell situation anyways.
On June 29 2012 18:04 CrtBalorda wrote:
Linux people woudnt necessarly buy the game would they?
that's such a bad and extremely stupid misconception -_-
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Don't expect blizzard to port the game to Linux, you'll have to use workarounds.
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Cant you just use a virtual windows on linux, and play it trough that?
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On June 29 2012 18:26 Darksoldierr wrote:
Cant you just use a virtual windows on linux, and play it trough that?
Thats kind of missing the point, one would probably just boot windows instead.
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Uhm ubuntu/kubuntu and all that can't people who uses those just use windows as a second OS? ;]
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On June 29 2012 18:37 SilSol wrote:
Uhm ubuntu/kubuntu and all that can't people who uses those just use windows as a second OS? ;]
Because i have to pay for it if i want a legal version? It is also anoying to have to reboot every time i want to game when i use ubuntu for work
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On June 29 2012 18:04 CrtBalorda wrote:
Linux people woudnt necessarly buy the game would they? They must buy it to play on Battle.net, just like everybody else.
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On June 29 2012 18:26 Darksoldierr wrote:
Cant you just use a virtual windows on linux, and play it trough that?
Don't think so. Last I used virtualisation software none of them had anything close to decent hardware acceleration support.
I reboot everytime I want to play. Its a MASSIVE pain the the ass 
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On June 29 2012 17:55 p2jh wrote:
A lot of people are linux users <3 I myself tried, worked fine but didn't get any sound... kinda anoying. If anyone has a solution to this... But with wine, or even POL, it works fine if you take out the sound issue
Anyway I think this thread deserved to be moved to tech ? Or I may be wrong ?
You may need to revert to an earlier version of Wine to get sound to work. I went back to 2.6 or 2.7 I think. The downside to this fix is that the earlier version of Wine doesn't show potraits, league icons and a couple of other UI things in the main menu but all customs and ladder options work fine.
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It's a shame that Blizzard stopped supporting OpenGL in their games. WoW came with OpenGL support and since Linux has native support for that, WoW actually ran better with Linux/Wine than on Windows, since all the important calls (the OpenGL stuff) didn't have to be translated by Wine and could benefit from the higher efficiency of the Linux system. SC2 and D3 only use DirectX, which doesn't have a native Linux version, so Wine needs to do all the translating. It still runs okay, but you don't get the same experience out of your hardware are you would on Windows.
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Last time I tried the dev version of wine worked just fine. Although it has been a while (6 months or something..) since I used my main machine for gaming. Only problem I had was that sometimes geysers would "drop" through the map so I couldn't use them, but I think that was mostly related to AMD/ATI drivers..
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If you already have 3rd party drivers (manufacturer) installed on linux, try giving SC2 a go in WINE. Close to none optimizations have to be done and it runs quite well... I recommend it.
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There is wine but its not as good as on windows to be honest. The funny thing is SC2 is on Mac it would be pretty trivial from a development standpoint to actually make a native version but they just don't believe in the platform. Hopefully now that Valve is supporting Linux by porting Steam and their source engine other companies namely Blizzard will follow suit. Knowing Blizzard they won't at least not quickly.
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