It will probably run flawlessly in a wrapper or vm, so who cares, an extra 20 min of setup. Most people who use linux will have no problem doing this.

On this point, id should probably at least make a wrapper package so people can install with a few lines from terminal.

Some people seem to be philosophically opposed to using wine though.

It's like riding a tricycle after having used a car.

More like using a community build road instead of the official one. Different cars react differently to it.

I know, right? Even the thought of running OPPRESSING NON FREE software on your FREE GLORIOUS LINUX box is just appaling!

Basically, terrorism.

LMAO@Linux.

Where's your kernel now!!!

LMAO @ this thread. OP is a massive faggot.

Wanted to plus OP but he's on probation, so just plussed the closest thing instead, Jamerio.

xD

6% of the player base gone instantly, nice

2%

plus the 4% of Mac users. any time there's an update people don't like, people go apeshit, but now that there's one that is literally guaranteed to make 6% quit people act like it's not a big deal. if there was proof that the next map pool would make 6% of the player base quit for good people would be mass shitposting about QL being dead.

this is a bigger deal than the map voting system was because we KNOW we're going to lose a chunk of the community, even if it's only 6%.

A proportion of this 6% will continue playing on Windows, though. Or with wine (which should work fine). Or even through visualization (ok probably not that).

But in any case this is still bad news.

You've never used Wine before, have you? The smallest bit of input lag or glitches would make a game like Quake unplayable. No one is going to play QL using Wine. No one.

We'll have to wait for the standalone and try it ourselves before knowing for sure...

4% of mac users? Really? Where does this information come from?

id software

I guess I just find it hard to believe more Mac users play Quake than Linux. Especially since I heard that there's some issues playing on a Mac vs. PC.

Also, from id software, the entire code has been cleaned of most of the Windows dependent code. That bodes well for something like wine working effectively, I would think.

...and they have no interest in being 'less than truthful' about the numbers, of course :p

They were giving these proportions way before it would have been "advantageous" to minimize them.

math:
2% -> 5 players
100% -> 250 players

Haha, lame QL!

Thats actually accurate, yet they insist on forcing people paying.

Less players is actually more reason for people having to pay.

id logic

simple jacks :::}

Actually QL just had the highest online count ever. 1.3k
But "internet facts" so yeah.. :D

I know this is just a bait but I can't resist.
hint: this provocations are coming from a warsow player.

Remember warsow guys? cellshaded pigs? anyone? no? :(

With Warsow maybe going on Steam and QL self-destructing there might be more Warsow players than Quake players in a few months. LOL