Jay Swackhamer

There are people that say the market for Linux games is a small one. I would have to disagree. If you read through posts on any number of forums and mailing lists, you can see that there is a large group of people that want to play their favorite game on Linux. If you do a search on the terms +linux +windows +"just to play games"  you will find many references to people that do all of their work on Linux and keep a windows partition 'Just to play games.' I'd say that over the last couple of years, the time has come that you don't need that Windows partition to play games. Just load the 3D drivers from nVidia or ATI and get on with the games! The installation of 3D video drivers has been greatly improved and simplified. If you use Gentoo's Linux system, then you can simply 'emerge nvida-kernel nvidia-glx' or 'emerge ati-drivers', if you use other distributions, you c... (more)