Counter Strike : Global Offensive on Linux? || Open letter to Valve

[fakeer]

Hello Valve,

Please have CS:GO run on Linux without WINE or anything else crappy like that or anything at all. Please release CS:GO for Linux too, and also a native Linux Steam client.

There are a lot of people out there who are stuck with the crappy OS just because of CS-1.6. So, please.. be good :)

PS. And yes, please do not make it another Source. Make it sth CS-1.6+ :)

[voLtageKK!]

Pls make it Iphone compatible!!!!
and no recoil pls fo rEaL 13yrs old xbox and ps3 madk1ll3rzzzzzzzzz./irony off

VALVE FAIL

no offense to linux just kidding

[SaLaDiN]

There are a lot of people out there who are stuck with the crappy OS just because of CS-1.6. So, please.. be good :)


There is the only one thing, which is crappy...Your OS...It is very funny, your OS has almost no support from game developers and small support from other vendors, but yeah, the other OS, where you can play your game without any problems are crappy. Hi, Linux brainless fanboi.

[Χάρης]

That's too good to be true unfortunately,people have been asking for a native linux steam client for a long time but it seems Valve doesn't care about linux.

[forrestparkay]

There is the only one thing, which is crappy...Your OS...It is very funny, your OS has almost no support from game developers and small support from other vendors, but yeah, the other OS, where you can play your game without any problems are crappy. Hi, Linux brainless fanboi.

So because there is one small advantage to an OS, it makes somebody a brainless fanboi to still prefer the other? I think maybe you are confused.

[Azrian]

So because there is one small advantage to an OS, it makes somebody a brainless fanboi to still prefer the other? I think maybe you are confused.

It makes you a brainless fanboi for thinking there is only "one slight advantage".

The problem with Linux is that it is deeply overrated. Software support is so limited that as soon as I installed Ubuntu and noticed that 80% of my applications needed Wine or some ♥♥♥♥ like that to work, it got uninstalled. I like to play my games without 500 compatibility fixes and without performance problems. There are many other reasons why Linux is overrated, but that's just one of them.

[fakeer]

Pls make it Iphone compatible!!!!
and no recoil pls fo rEaL 13yrs old xbox and ps3 madk1ll3rzzzzzzzzz./irony off

VALVE FAIL

no offense to linux just kidding

Hey, it's okay even if you did. Getting an iOS one will be funny :)

[forrestparkay]

It makes you a brainless fanboi for thinking there is only "one slight advantage".

The problem with Linux is that it is deeply overrated. Software support is so limited that as soon as I installed Ubuntu and noticed that 80% of my applications needed Wine or some like that to work, it got uninstalled. I like to play my games without 500 compatibility fixes and without performance problems. There are many other reasons why Linux is overrated, but that's just one of them.

LOL. You're doing it wrong.

[Azrian]

LOL. You're doing it wrong.

It's kinda funny that this is all you could reply to what I said.

[forrestparkay]

Well yeah. Do you seriously think you can spew uneducated nonsense all over, without bothering to do even the least bit of research, and that it is my job to educate you? But it's still hard to avoid laughing at your woefully ridiculous comment.

[fakeer]

There is the only one thing, which is crappy...Your OS...It is very funny, your OS has almost no support from game developers and small support from other vendors, but yeah, the other OS, where you can play your game without any problems are crappy. Hi, Linux brainless fanboi.

I would have called you an idiot but I won't because you already are one and calling you brainless is pointless if you are an idiot.

No other support from any vendor? When were you born? Like 4 years ago and if before then were you in some kind of comma or ....whatever.
Again I wouldn't expect you to know this but when you use this OS (you won't, as you are an idiot) almost everything/device works just when you attach it (read USB for example. Go to Wikipedia to know what USB actually is. Do it, you need to) and you don't have to install drivers for every other vendor. Just an example. There's an endless list.


PS. SaLaDiN, I didn't call you an idiot, I just pointed out that you are one. Hope you don't mind.

[fakeer]

It makes you a brainless fanboi for thinking there is only "one slight advantage".

The problem with Linux is that it is deeply overrated. Software support is so limited that as soon as I installed Ubuntu and noticed that 80% of my applications needed Wine or some ♥♥♥♥ like that to work, it got uninstalled. I like to play my games without 500 compatibility fixes and without performance problems. There are many other reasons why Linux is overrated, but that's just one of them.
Go educate yourself. Better say - "you need help".
There's a hint you will need for the education. For debating upon "Linux is overrated or not" - you'll need to know both the Linux and meaning of the word "overrate". Dictionary meaning of the word "overrate" alone won't suffice which is all you have, in this context, it seems.

[fakeer]

It's kinda funny that this is all you could reply to what I said.
That's the point. You find this funny :)

[Azrian]

That's the point. You find this funny :)

If I add the prefix "extremely uber" overrated, I am doing it moar right?

The only thing that serious people even consider IRL about Linux is server hosting, everything else -> Windows/Mac.

[fakeer]

If I add the prefix "extremely uber" overrated, I am doing it moar right?

The only thing that serious people even consider IRL about Linux is server hosting, everything else -> Windows/Mac.
Education, dear. You need education. I as said.

[Azrian]

Education, dear. You need education. I as said.

I don't know why I'm even somewhat arguing with you, brainlesss Linux fanbois think Linux is almighty, thus why Linux marketshare is so abysmally high amirite (2.07%)? And why so many games support it amirite? It's so awesome, that you can play every games on it without even needing official support, amirite?

No, seriously. I don't see why anyone would switch to Linux in its current state of incompatibility with so many softwares without use of a VM.

I'm not expecting much more than "You need education." from a brainless fanboi such as you, because thats what you seem to be judging from your very relevant replies.

Linux is good at some things, but a large portion of what Linux does, Windows does it PnP and with better performance without having to go through a 15-steps guideé (i.e. USB wireless adapter).

They day Linux will be that good is the day you will see Linux the recommended OS for some popular software, which is kinda far from reality of the vast majority of softwares nowadays.

Windows 7 is currently superior to Linux in almost every possible way, and that's not what I think, it's what experts think.
(http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/37086)

If you want more, just tell me, I'll be more than happy to "educate" a brainless fanboi.

[forrestparkay]

Lol I can't stop laughing at this thread.

On the one hand, we have Fakeer, saying things like "you in some kind of comma" and "You need education. I as said."

Then on the other we have Azrian, saying that it is pointless to argue with "brainless fanbois" yet expending tons of energy arguing instead of researching.

Good work guys. I've had a wonderful day.

[Azrian]

Lol I can't stop laughing at this thread.

On the one hand, we have Fakeer, saying things like "you in some kind of comma" and "You need education. I as said."

Then on the other we have Azrian, saying that it is pointless to argue with "brainless fanbois" yet expending tons of energy arguing instead of researching.

Good work guys. I've had a wonderful day.

Your posts are extremely relevant to this thread.
They bring a lot of very precious information.

Seriously.






























Super serious.

[fakeer]

Lol I can't stop laughing at this thread.

On the one hand, we have Fakeer, saying things like "you in some kind of comma" and "You need education. I as said."

Then on the other we have Azrian, saying that it is pointless to argue with "brainless fanbois" yet expending tons of energy arguing instead of researching.

Good work guys. I've had a wonderful day.
Right. The thread is deviated from the path it should have taken. It was about OS and games. I actually never imagined there are people like these who declare anything and everything without a research and yes the first reply - which was personal and was uncalled called for. I had to be personal too. I couldn't think of anything better or something they would actually comprehend to these idiots.

[fakeer]

I don't know why I'm even somewhat arguing with you, brainlesss Linux fanbois think Linux is almighty, thus why Linux marketshare is so abysmally high amirite (2.07%)? And why so many games support it amirite? It's so awesome, that you can play every games on it without even needing official support, amirite?

No, seriously. I don't see why anyone would switch to Linux in its current state of incompatibility with so many softwares without use of a VM.

I'm not expecting much more than "You need education." from a brainless fanboi such as you, because thats what you seem to be judging from your very relevant replies.

Linux is good at some things, but a large portion of what Linux does, Windows does it PnP and with better performance without having to go through a 15-steps guideé (i.e. USB wireless adapter).

They day Linux will be that good is the day you will see Linux the recommended OS for some popular software, which is kinda far from reality of the vast majority of softwares nowadays.

Windows 7 is currently superior to Linux in almost every possible way, and that's not what I think, it's what experts think.
(http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/37086)

If you want more, just tell me, I'll be more than happy to "educate" a brainless fanboi.
I got one hint right from your post and it made sense to me too ;) Why the hell am I arguing with an idiot. Remain a dumb :(

[ColdCoffee]

I feel like the Indian with a single tear reading this litter.

[Barney]

I'd Just Like To Interject For A Moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

[fakeer]

I'd Just Like To Interject For A Moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

You are right.
However, it's about Linux only - as in a Linux distro (Ubuntu, OpenSuse etc). Lets not call it a mistake - A "Linux distro" being called just "Linux". It's the convention now. Any operating system that runs a Linux kernel is Linux in general(even Android, isn't it ;) ). Just like Mac is almost Unix (FreeBSD(the free Unix) in fact). So no, wasn't a mistake. This is how it is called by both - the people who know the difference and the people who don't.
Cheers!

[forrestparkay]

This thread just gets worse and worse. Linux is not the operating system? If the kernel isn't the operating system, then what the heck is? Some branding of it perhaps (after all, we say "windows" instead of "windowsNT"), but it's really disingenuous to say that it's incorrect to call linux the operating system.

And then what is this? MacOS is FreeBSD? wtf? That's like saying "Windows is just DOS". It's a really terrible over-simplification.

[arisaka]

Source games on Linux would be nice. I mean, it's not too far from MacOS.

/is posting while on Ubuntu 11.04

[fakeer]

This thread just gets worse and worse. Linux is not the operating system? If the kernel isn't the operating system, then what the heck is? Some branding of it perhaps (after all, we say "windows" instead of "windowsNT"), but it's really disingenuous to say that it's incorrect to call linux the operating system.

And then what is this? MacOS is FreeBSD? wtf? That's like saying "Windows is just DOS". It's a really terrible over-simplification.
Agreed. And if you were referring to my attaching UNIX, FreeBSD with MacOS

And then what is this? MacOS is FreeBSD? wtf?

then please note that I was just trying to explain why it's not incorrect call to call Linux distros simply Linux. Thanks.

[forrestparkay]

I was just trying to explain why it's not incorrect call to call Linux distros simply Linux

You can't explain why it's incorrect by just making things up. Mac is not a linux distro. FreeBSD is not a linux distro in the first place, and Mac OS only uses small portions of things similar to FreeBSD.

[fakeer]

You can't explain why it's incorrect by just making things up. Mac is not a linux distro. FreeBSD is not a linux distro in the first place, and Mac OS only uses small portions of things similar to FreeBSD.

Hey, now you are getting way over your head. Who the hell did say Mac is a Linux distro and Mac is FreeBSD and FreeBSD is Linux? I didn't. Making things up? Read it "incorrect allegation is in itself incorrect" or just leave this topic if you can't figure out how to comment. Even I myself (who started the topic) was irked and commented rather terse and doing the same here.

Guess I was supposed to calculate the lines of code in the entire OS and then post the percentage of every single other S/w and kernels that were used or a post of which was used, right?

I think I shall better search a way to close or kill this damn thread. Makes sense.

[forrestparkay]

Hey, now you are getting way over your head. Who the hell did say Mac is a Linux distro and Mac is FreeBSD and FreeBSD is Linux?

Just like Mac is almost Unix (FreeBSD(the free Unix) in fact)

I don't know, maybe your english is just really broken, but to me that sounds like you are saying that Mac is almost Unix because it is FreeBSD which is almost unix.

[fakeer]

I don't know, maybe your english is just really broken, but to me that sounds like you are saying that Mac is almost Unix because it is FreeBSD which is almost unix.
Looks like your understanding of English is beyond repair as you read somewhere "FreeBSD is Linux". Check you last reply.

As for the part you quoted in your recent reply - no my English is fine, not perfect though - not my native tongue, it's just correct in the context that I wasn't supposed to calculate percentage of codes used from different components of Unix and/or derivatives of it. Obviously you didn't quote that part. Go get a life rather than commenting on threads that is full if non-sense, having already lost the meaning it should have and and the starter is pi*ss*ed off.

[Knusperkeks.]

I have to agree. Linux should be supported MAC OS and Linux are basicly the same (everyone who knows about the KDE "Drama"....) knows this. I know a lot of ppl that use Linux and only use Win7/ Vista/ or XP for games...

And on a second note if u using "UR" Windows programms on Linux u making something wrong....Windows without Office, Photoshop etc is CRAP and 90% of the ppl who use this software downloadet it via Bit Torrent....and the same ppl then say Linux is crap....strange world

[forrestparkay]

Looks like your understanding of English is beyond repair as you read somewhere "FreeBSD is Linux". Check you last reply.
I said, "FreeBSD ISN'T Linux".

FreeBSD is not a linux distro in the first place

source (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24547702&postcount=27)

As for the part you quoted in your recent reply - no my English is fine, not perfect though
I wasn't even talking to you. This is your first post in this thread.


This is by far the weirdest post in this thread so far. And it's such a circus that you should feel proud of earning that title.

[fakeer]

I said, "FreeBSD ISN'T Linux".



source (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24547702&postcount=27)


I wasn't even talking to you. This is your first post in this thread.


This is by far the weirdest post in this thread so far. And it's such a circus that you should feel proud of earning that title.
You are confused or maybe out of your mind. Please get the hell out of here. You don't belong here. Leave the poor thread alone :)

[forrestparkay]

Hahaha, good one. I now see that everybody in this thread is just a troll. You had me fooled for a minute there. I thought everybody was being serious and was actually extremely stupid or just badly misinformed, but I see now that you are just trolling me.

Well played.

[manolo_texaco]

Hello everyone.

I didn't read the whole thread. Quite boring I guess.

But I only want to say:

I love play on Linux, and I love Steam. I want pay for games and play them on my favorite linux distribution.

I start my computer on windows just for play (as a pain in the ♥♥♥).

The mean is: "Linux people want pay for play good games"

I'm so sorry for my English.

[glamdering]

Stop arguing people, this is a request to add Linux support.


Valve you should consider the market that will be opened to you, majority of Linux users are left out in the cold when games are released. Dose that stop us from finding a way to play it on Linux? No, but if Valve extended some love I'm sure Linux users would do the same. I don't have any big interest in CS:GO, but if it becomes Linux native I'm sure it will sell very fast.

You would have a monopoly on the market, sure we have some good games for Linux. Think about this, what major game developers are there for Linux? If steam was released to Linux not only would it open up a huge market to you, it could potentially become a gateway other companies use to get games out to Linux with simplicity. Gaining steam even more money off the commission you get for selling games.

-Thank You for your time, dedicated Linux user.

[fakeer]

Stop arguing people, this is a request to add Linux support.


Valve you should consider the market that will be opened to you, majority of Linux users are left out in the cold when games are released. Dose that stop us from finding a way to play it on Linux? No, but if Valve extended some love I'm sure Linux users would do the same. I don't have any big interest in CS:GO, but if it becomes Linux native I'm sure it will sell very fast.

You would have a monopoly on the market, sure we have some good games for Linux. Think about this, what major game developers are there for Linux? If steam was released to Linux not only would it open up a huge market to you, it could potentially become a gateway other companies use to get games out to Linux with simplicity. Gaining steam even more money off the commission you get for selling games.

-Thank You for your time, dedicated Linux user.

Can't agree more!

[xwadsx4]

"Windows is just DOS". It's a really terrible over-simplification.

This was true Win95/Win98 days...and possibly millenium?

If I add the prefix "extremely uber" overrated, I am doing it moar right?

The only thing that serious people even consider IRL about Linux is server hosting, everything else -> Windows/Mac.

Yeah cause theres only a few servers in the world...

[ESEA]

Linux for servers > Windows/Mac for everything else

Linux support is likely to never happen, the user margin is far below anything a company could consider profitable, not to mention the user base is shrinking all the time.

[forrestparkay]

This was true Win95/Win98 days...and possibly millenium?
No, no it wasn't. DOS is an operating system in and of itself. Windows is another operating system based on DOS. It's not DOS. To say it is is a really terrible over-simplification, just as I said above.

[hat]

I heard a rumor of a Linux client a while ago... around the same time I heard of the Mac client, actually. Well, obviously, since then, the Mac client has proven not to be a rumor, and the Linux client? Who knows.

[fakeer]

I heard a rumor of a Linux client a while ago... around the same time I heard of the Mac client, actually. Well, obviously, since then, the Mac client has proven not to be a rumor, and the Linux client? Who knows.
Amen!!!

[glamdering]

I'm bumping this thread to keep it fresh in the forums.

Valve, if you have gone through he trouble to code CS:GO and Steam cross platform why not add Linux support? I would like a solid sensible answer from Valve representative before I will let this issue go.

[liamdawe]

Well the Steam Linux Beta starts next week, no sign of CS:GO coming though

[bonedriven]

With so many bugs and problem in windows. Linux launch is only an attention ♥♥♥♥♥ act.

[DerRidda]

Well the Steam Linux Beta starts next week, no sign of CS:GO coming though

Actually there is. Frank, the moderator that posted the Linux survey link in the official Steam for Linux group seems to have an account that only includes the games we can find in the CDR that are tagged as Linux compatible, plus L4D2 which we know was the first thing they ported and CS:GO, which was previously not known to be ported. So it might already be worked on. No guarantees though.

Look here: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198072900905/games?tab=all

[broadwey_again]

Well steam for linux is in beta soon so..

[hamilton5]

way to dig a thread out of the grave

[UKFX]

There is the only one thing, which is crappy...Your OS...It is very funny, your OS has almost no support from game developers and small support from other vendors, but yeah, the other OS, where you can play your game without any problems are crappy. Hi, Linux brainless fanboi.

Old thread, but you should see your post now lol. Fail.

(I use Windows and Linux. Windows > has you by the balls = They own DirectX.

Linux is being more openly supported by vendors and developers now anyway. The future is Linux, whether people like it or not.