Portal 2 Beta for Linux officially released

Oh jeez. <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/portal2/issues/21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ValveSoftware&#x2F;portal2&#x2F;issues&#x2F;21</a>

The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake.

Curious: how is performance compared to the OSX port? All the Source games I&#x27;ve tried run horribly on OSX compared to Windows on the same machine. Strangely, they play just fine through a Parallels Windows VM running inside OSX, so it can&#x27;t be the OSX graphics driver&#x27;s fault. What&#x27;s going on over there?

Awesome. I&#x27;ve already played through it on my Gentoo computer using wine but will enjoy playing through it again and doing the online co-op missions when this version is out of beta. It&#x27;s a great game, very worth playing if you haven&#x27;t already.

Best news I got all day. Downloading now. It worked pretty good in wine (atop Arch) for a while, then developed keyboard issues. Hoping to say goodbye to those.

Awesome. I already played through on xbox, but I&#x27;ve been buying&#x2F;playing the linux ports of the valve games as they come out to support them.

Got it working on my arch linux laptop with Intel HD 4000 it is super smooth.<p>This is great news.

I would like to see the SDK and the &#x27;Authoring Tools&#x27; working on Linux.

Has anyone tested to see if it would work with co-op with non-beta players?

Great news, now just waiting for a Humble Bundle deal with Portal in it.

Looks like I&#x27;m gonna buy a Steam game for the first time.

Reminds me of <a href="http://xkcd.com/606/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;606&#x2F;</a> ... Clearly, there are no downsides!

nice, but i wonder why they took so long to release it after all the other source engine games.

Better late than never I guess.

Misread that as <i>Postal</i> 2 beta (with an &quot;s&quot;), even though Postal 2 for Linux on Steam has been around for a while now. RWS is planning a big update this year, too.<p>This is good, too, though. I might consider checking it out, though I&#x27;m hardly a gamer.