Last edited by gbudny on 20 August 2021 at 3:22 pm UTC
He left Id software in 2012, and that was the end of porting unofficial versions of games to Linux and official versions to Mac.
However, I think that the rest of the company didn't care what Timothee Besset was doing back then. Id software was a company interested to publish the source code of their games, and it's a fact. I bought few versions of games for Mac to play on Linux. Later, Timothee Besset decided to publish unofficial versions of games for Linux. Macmillan published Quake, Quake 2, and Loki software published Quake 3 in the same year - that is it! The low sales of Quake 3 for Linux were the main reason that Loki was closed. Id Sofware invested some money to publish official versions of Quake for Linux, and they were active for one year. Dave Taylor ported Doom as the first game to Linux, but Inner worlds was the first game developed for Linux and published on the CD. There was always a misconception among Linux users about this company, and it's now hard to accept facts.
Right click on your game, go to Properties, Compatibility and ensure the box is ticked named "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" then select Luxtorpeda from the dropdown box that appears. Restart Steam if it's open which refreshes the Steam Play list for Luxtorpeda to show up. Extract the archive downloaded in Step 1, and place the contents into the above directory. If this folder does not exist, create it: ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/. Download the tar archive file from the GitHub releases page. Want to try Luxtorpeda? It's easy enough to download and install too with a few quick steps: Using Luxtorpeda gives you the ability to run the content with vkquake, quakespasm, and darkplaces. That said, since there are plenty of open source engines capable of running it you can also use the Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda which just got updated to support the newly bundled expansions, music, along with the brand new "Dimension of the Machine" Episode. However, it does work with Steam Play Proton. Quake officially only supports Windows still too. Really goes to show how much things have changed now. It's a serious shame that a game with such a rich history of open source thanks to early id Software releases decided to go with a proprietary system (Nightdive's KEX Engine) for the enhanced upgrade. It works with Steam Play Proton and you can also use the Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda to play the new content on an open source game engine. During QuakeCon the original Quake got an enhanced edition released, which Nightdive Studios worked on.
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