After all the shitty ports....what a relief!

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Got this during a sale a while back in anticipation...fingers crossed!

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Definitely have my eye on this...great to see they have an open beta, that's a great sign.

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Quoting: sevendoes this mean that CoH2 is native?

Of course...unlikely to be anything else, especially from Feral.

Thanks Feral, your team now belongs in the Linux gaming HALL OF FAME

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This is really f***ing amazing. Speechless!!

And in the midst of it all, don't forget Wasteland is 50% off!

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Quoting: LordpkappaDo you think that with Vulkan Api we'll have the same performance of DX12 or more?

Yes definitely, I think the two are very similar, in fact DX12 was inspired somewhat on Mantle as well I think. Now that there's a level playing field, I think we will start seeing Linux beating Windows performance wise across the board. Very exciting times...

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Brilliant!
Mad max is a fantastic and atmospheric setting. Can't wait.

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% of library games is definitely not a good metric, but it's a FUN one.

I have 183 / 226, which means 83% of my games are on Linux. That's not representative, because I only really started using Steam under Linux and I only buy Linux games (or games that are rumoured to come to Linux and are on special). All the rest of those Windows games are from bundles that had non-Linux titles.

@mao_dze_dun you are right, Devil's Advocate is a healthy thing (and a reasonable Devil's Advocate can't be found on mainstream blog comments unfortunately).

However, I disagree, Windows is not a vastly superior gaming platform for the PC because for an eternity it's been the ONLY one. That doesn't mean that as a gaming platform (on PC), it's any good. Broken drivers because you installed an app or game that broke other apps/games on your system, being asked for the millionth time to reinstall the Directx Runtime, random bluescreens, viruses, controller issues, unsupported USB drivers because you upgraded to Windows 8...blah blah blah.
A custom Linux OS, running a true and tried packet manager, on a stable version of Debian (Linux at it's rock-solid best) with video cards running OpenGL Next. Now THAT could be a superior gaming platform for PC. I'm not saying it is now, but the future looks bright.

Example - I torrented Shadow of Mordor on one of my Windows partitions (I'm occasionally obliged to use it for work...I had deleted all of my Windows partitions and then that damn OS crept back due to clients wanting Windows work...my laptop and all PCs have Linux on them though, a couple dual or triple boot) in order to check the hype out as I'm a long time LOTR fan...and you know, "try before you buy". Now, I would never pirate games for Linux mind you. Anyway, turns out SoM only supports the Xbox360 controller, so my Logitech F710 only half works and can't be remapped. WTF! So I tried x360ce , an Xbox360 controller emulator, but no, it fails to work for me, it just crashes on my system and this is after many different attempts. So much for PC (Windows) Master Race!

Needless to say, I have not played any of Shadow of Mordor, I now refuse to play it until it comes out for Linux.

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Yeah, great game, never checked performance because it ran fine out of the box for me...so glad it came to our platform!

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Yep, loving the art design and look of this....plus a great sense of humour too.

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