Hi,



I am a developer who does a lot of open source work, mainly with the Enlightenment project, though there are others that I have contributed to in the past. I have been interested in PoE ever since I saw a comment from Chris on reddit about it some 6-8 months ago.



Having gotten into the beta a couple back and found it just as fun as I had hoped, I decided that it would be my mission to give back to GGG for making such a great game F2P by making PoE run on linux. A couple days later, and the result is http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28235



I am happy to report that PoE runs flawlessly under WINE v1.3.27 in linux with only a tiny patch to fix a startup crash! I have not spent much time "testing" today, though I plan to spend a considerable amount of time doing so; bugs must be found, you understand.



I have already submitted the relevant forms to appdb, and I expect there to be an entry up soon on which I will keep relevant information. I would normally finish this off by posting a screenshot or several, but I don't remember the policy for that so I'll wait until someone from GGG gives the okay or not. Posted by

discomfitor

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Quake live + Poe you just made the change argument much beter m8! Posted by

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YEEEESSSSS I'm a linux user too and this is really great!!! Thank you so much!!



EDIT: as for the screenshots, i think you can post anything that has already been announced outside the beta. I mean, poeple are streaming their entire playtime in the beta so don't worry that much :P Last edited by RaffoBaffo on Sep 4, 2011, 10:27:09 AM Posted by

RaffoBaffo

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hm well okay, I suppose one wouldn't hurt :)

http://dev.enlightenment.fr/~discomfitor/screenshot-0000.png Posted by

discomfitor

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This is indeed excellent news, thank you for the time and effort.



Will be trying/playing under Debian mint when poe comes out. Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

When in doubt inside your atavistic allure, the value of a summer spent,

And a winter earned.

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" discomfitor I am happy to report that PoE runs flawlessly under WINE v1.3.27 in linux with only a tiny patch to fix a startup crash! I have not spent much time "testing" today, though I plan to spend a considerable amount of time doing so; bugs must be found, you understand.



I just wanted to say Thank You for taking the time to work out a Linux fix, and I hope the Devs allow it to be around, or even create a link to the unofficial instructions for getting it to work on Linux, after release.

Some other Devs/Publishers have done that - where they don't officially support Linux but will at least link to someone's successful instructions to get it to work, so as not to exclude anyone!



I have a system running the Ubuntu, and I would offer to help you test but I am not a part of beta yet. PM me if there IS anything I can do though! I just wanted to say Thank You for taking the time to work out a Linux fix, and I hope the Devs allow it to be around, or even create a link to the unofficial instructions for getting it to work on Linux, after release.Some other Devs/Publishers have done that - where they don't officially support Linux but will at least link to someone's successful instructions to get it to work, so as not to exclude anyone!I have a system running the Ubuntu, and I would offer to help you test but I am not a part of beta yet. PM me if there IS anything I can do though! Last edited by chronologyte on Sep 4, 2011, 5:32:45 PM Posted by

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That actually means, that it is capable of running under MacOS as well. Shame i haven't got yet my beta key to test it out (which i would have...).



There is no wine package for mac, and thus it should be compiled with the help of macports.

This way unfortunately is not for less technically savvy users.



There is a package based of wine, known as CrossOver, available for linux as well, which simplifies in a great way all windows installations.



May i ask you to test PoE on crossover ver. 10+?



This way developers wont even have to pay Cedega for "vrapping" PoE for Mac ) Posted by

Dennder

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Thank you, this is good news... I'm a linux (ubuntu) user as well.



And the possibility of playing this game without have to use windows is just awesome =) Posted by

Ironman

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" Dennder

May i ask you to test PoE on crossover ver. 10+?

May i ask you to test PoE on crossover ver. 10+?

I don't have crossover. I don't have crossover. Posted by

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