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**Lolita Palmer** · 01-18-2007, 09:39 PM

Originally posted by Lorizael
Why can't you run games normally in Linux, and what does Cedega do that allows you to do so? Specifically, many of these games use DirectX, which is Windows-only.

Cedega is a reverse-engineering attempt to mimic and translate many of those calls into something useful to Linux. It's fairly good at what it does.

If things can be tricky, as you say, why do you do it? What does Gentoo have over Windows that you're willing to put up with various complications that may arise? Well, for one, I like spending that time tinkering. Admittedly, Gentoo is a lot of headaches, and it forces you to learn the innards of the system with a decent enough risk of system breakage.

I like it more than Windows for that reason--I like to tinker.

01-18-2007, 09:39 PM	#13
Lolita Palmer Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 531 Senior Member	Originally posted by Lorizael Why can't you run games normally in Linux, and what does Cedega do that allows you to do so? Specifically, many of these games use DirectX, which is Windows-only. Cedega is a reverse-engineering attempt to mimic and translate many of those calls into something useful to Linux. It's fairly good at what it does. If things can be tricky, as you say, why do you do it? What does Gentoo have over Windows that you're willing to put up with various complications that may arise? Well, for one, I like spending that time tinkering. Admittedly, Gentoo is a lot of headaches, and it forces you to learn the innards of the system with a decent enough risk of system breakage. I like it more than Windows for that reason--I like to tinker.
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