alt Hacker NewsI have a special place in my heart for UT2004 because it was one of the very few games that had an official native Linux version at the time. I think I enjoyed the fact that it was running on Linux more than I enjoyed the game itself.
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phrotoma • today at 12:35 PM
I'll never forget installing ut2k4 on my linux box and having it Just Work. Magical.
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urmane • today at 3:00 PM
Yes! I had both a Linux (main) and a Windows box in my office back in the day, and a friend came over frequently and we would "kill things!" for hours :-)
IIRC, I bought the metal case for UT3, but the linux binaries never appeared ...
fud101 • today at 2:07 PM
i remember playing it on linux on my dell inspiron 8k which was a beautiful machine.
Yes! I remember at the time I had just gotten linux to reliably work on my dual Opteron workstation so that I could migrate away from Win2K64. UT2K3 and UT2K4 were just about the only games I could run because Wine didn't work very well back then.
In retrospect, I have a much greater appreciation for Windows 2000. User experience was really front and center in a way that we seem to have gotten away from since Web 2.0. It basically never blue screened. Games ran well. Personal computing seems to have taken some steps backwards since then.