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As someone who hasn’t played games for more than 15 years now, this makes me want to play again for the nostalgia; but I dont know where to start. I only have a macbook and an old laptop running linux. Will the remaster work on any of those? Is Steam the best way to install it?
I'd have to see your Linux laptop specs but with proton you can run it with little hassle on steam.
Thanks. It's a pretty old laptop, but the specs are:
I was running Arch but recently switched to Mint because it was getting more unstable as the hardware got older and older. Do you think it will work? I did check out the required specs but I'm quite behind on the latest stuff about CPUs and graphics cards since I mostly run old hardware except for the macbook that I use for work.
I'm running Quake 2 on pop os linux using steam, which is based on Ubuntu just like Mint. My desktop is a i7 3770 from that era. I think you will be fine on the CPU and RAM front.
The GPU I'm less certain about. It's an old mobile GPU that was low end when it was new. But this is essentially a 25 year old game we are talking about. My advice is to just give it a try. It's $10, and Steam will refund purchases no questions asked as long as you play for less than 2 hours.
Didn't know about the refund policy. Thanks for the info! I might go ahead and try it then.