Gaming on Linux: A short review

Lately I've been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2. Until quite recently, I've been having to make a tough choice. Use Windows so I can play those games, or use Linux and not be able to play it. Valve has had Steam for Linux in public beta for a while now, but I haven't used it since I was first added to the beta until today. While I can't make a comparison between then and now, because I upgraded my graphics card, I can say that Valve is doing extremely well in porting TF2 over to Linux. I feel that this is an important step in making Linux a more viable option for many mainstream computer users/light gamers. While the performance of TF2 on Linux is not quite on-par with that of TF2 on Windows, it's still very playable and enjoyable.

If anybody is wondering, I upgraded my graphics card from the integrated 2500 HD graphics on my i5 to a GTX 650 - It's certainly nothing high-end, but it gets the job done. I had to install the beta drivers from Ubuntu's proprietary driver window, because the stable version didn't work.

This is going to be a short post, mostly because I have no idea how to use this markdown yet.

If you're on any mailing list, you've probably seen this already. I am going to be hosting an IAmA on Reddit for Mozilla contributors. I'm doing this because, Mozilla is generally associated with Firefox, and that's something that should change. It'll be taking place this Wednesday, October 24 at 1:45 PM CDT (UTC-5), which is 11:45 AM EDT.If you're at all interested in answering questions, let me know, or fill out this form. If you're not interested in answering questions, it'd be awesome if you spread the word. Post on Facebook, Twitter, your blogs, whatever you want, I'd just love for this to be something we can look back on as an example of something good.