I (a happy Witcher 2 player) also play the original Witcher using wine, and it runs beautifully, and is 100% playable for me. Having played it under That Other OS, I saw and experienced no difference in graphics, game speed, or graphics.

As long as I can play a game, I personally don't care how the game is made to run. Just sayin'.

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I bought the game on sale some time ago for Windows, which, these days, I never boot into. I'll be delighted to see it come up in my Steam Linux library. Patience...also this year is Wasteland 2, and hopefully Pillars of Eternity. I's going to be a good year.

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Well! Yet Another Reason to start using my Windows partition as nothing but storage!

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I "accepted" the port. I think that this is about as major a game as has yet been released that wasn't a Valve product. On my desktop box (Kubuntu 14.04, AMD 965, GeForce 650ti, 16GB RAM)https://www.google.com/, the port runs like a champ (mostly; a couple of crashes at starting the game's tutorial), and I've played through most of the Prologue.

I understand the indignation (and am SO glad I don't have an ATI card), but I can play a ***** game using my GNU/Linux platform, and the port will only improve (oe hopes). Performance appears to be comparable to the Windows version running under wine to my eyes.

Yes, of course, I want more native Linux games, but with a game this farking good, I'll accept the port, you bet.

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Yes, I had to open the file manually, but this is one nice little game, with more to it than I expected. There's something resembling an actual campaign, the music is very good, and it was on sale.

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Looks vaguely roguelike with some nice graphics, and some (apparently) original gameplay features. Inasmuch as Desura has been crashing over and over for me, I'll wait for Steam to offer it.

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I have a dual-boot desktop, and kept Windows 7 strictly for the games; I like Bioshock Inifnite and X-COM:Enemy Unknown and a few others, but...

Lately Windows 7 has a frozen mouse pointer (fixed by Safe Mode, until I rebooted, then frozen again), and screw it! All the games I have been playing for the last few month are Steam for Linux games (I do use Steam with Wine to play Oblivion and Skyrim, and they play quite nicely, thank you), and sooner or later, I'm going to deepsix that miserable excuse for an OS ("But it has Office!")and go 100% GNU/Linux again.

There are very few games out there that cannot be ported to Linux; God knows we already have a ton of FPS games, both OSS and commercial, and there's no reason that Battlefield, GTA, etc., etc cannot be ported, except for developer laziness.

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Does the song's lyrics comment on the action a la Bastion?

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400 games is a bit of a milestone, at least. I remember back in the beta, when the majority of games available for Linux had already been featured (and bought) in various Humble Bundles. When Crusader Kings II came out, I was overjoyed; the first ***** game for Linux since Neverwinter Nights and Dominions 3.

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In 2009, when the brand-new laptop I'd bought had its ATI chip declared "legacy" by ATI, I vowed to never buy another ATI graphics card again. I have been true to that vow. Hell, even the justly-despised Intel graphics have better GNU/Linux support than ATI, still.

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