Linux Support

So I assume OSX support is a long way out (if ever) as well?

 

I'd love to switch to linux too, but games and compatibility is stopping me...

 

By not offering a Linux version you miss some earnings. I just want to underline this, because a quite widespread belief is people do own windows and buy the games anyway ... this is wrong. But of course you reach most of potential customers. Is "most" enough? Its your decision.

 

Okay! Good luck. Beam looks awesome

 

That's what I think, too. I would also buy the game if it was also released for linux (Ubuntu based). Seriously, I will.

 

Its an old thread man.

BeamNG might work in wine. But otherwise torque3d doesnt support linux, and without torque3d on linux you cant have beamNG on linux.

 

Looking around on google. Most torque3d games do run perfectly fine in Wine, although I havent personally played any besides BeamNG and certainly havent tried BeamNG on wine myself yet.

Apparently installing mono helps, although I cannot see 1 reason why that would be the case considering wine cannot make use of mono to my knowledge (unless its falls back on it as a .NET replacement itself maybe).

 

I want BeamNG to support Linux, but I think it needs to pull in a lot more customers before a Linux port would be profitable. I bought BeamNG.drive anyway and I use it both in a virtual machine on my gaming rig and occasionally on my laptop to show off at the college section house (and it gets quite the attention too).

 

Read post #28 two posts up from yours, BeamNG's engine doesn't support Linux.

 

I read the whole thread before I posted, but perhaps I misphrased my reply. I meant to imply from the context that there aren't enough potential Linux customers for Torque3D based games to motivate a Torque3D Linux port and thus the same argument also holds for BeamNG.

 

How about Ubuntu?

 

You realise Ubuntu is Linux right?

 

Sorry. Didn't realize it was a different 'flavour'

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Linux itself is what is known as a kernel. A kernel is pretty much the very core of the operating system, most important part, a good car analogue would probably be the chassis.

The kernel in windows NT, 2000, XP, vista, 7, 8, RT, all editions of windows server and windows phone 8 (but not phone 7 or windows mobile) happens to be Windows NT. OSX and iOS use the XNU kernel which is a horrible bastardisation of the BSD kernel and mach kernel with some other bits thrown in for good measure. Android also uses the linux kernel actually, but blocks access to any linux features to the end user (although root your phone, install busybox and a terminal app, you can then use a linux shell quite effectively on android).

Regardless. Its linux we care about, not anything else right now.

Linux is free to download, use, modify and redistribute etc etc. Linux on its own isnt entirely useful. Canonical are the company behind ubuntu, what they do is take the linux kernel, a selection of drivers for USB devices etc, a lovely desktop (linux doesnt have a desktop normally, actually I hate ubuntu's interface personally) and some other bits of software, stick it all together on one DVD and release it as a "linux distribution". Other groups also do the same and release different distro's, my favourite is actually bodhi which itself is essentially ubuntu with a different desktop and loads of the software uninstalled leaving me with a blank slate. My uni use CentOS which is yet another distro. The raspberry pi uses debian (ubuntu actually bases their work from debian rather than starting with a clean slate). Slackware, gentoo and arch are other popular options.

 

How about using Wine or VirtualBox?

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On OSX it works in crossover which itself is based off of wine, yet somehow seems *less* compatible with software than wine, and thats before you consider the OSX version of wine again somehow being less compatible than wine on linux. But hey.

Should work fine in wine on linux, I haven't tried.

 

it didn't work for me, and those who managed it to work had horrible performance, so I don't know.

 

I would have imagined if it worked in crossover it would work in wine. But stranger things have happened, hell, some software works in one version of wine but not another.