Quoting: GuestSteam Controller is total trash. I bought that thing a couple of years ago and it only worked for about a moth. Hasn't worked properly since. I tried it out yesterday, after not using it for at least a year, and it works inside steam but not in any games. I tried updating, reverting and recovering firmware and none of it worked. I tried pretty much everything that was suggested by Steam Forums (users only, no comments from Valve).

I hope nobody here gets encourages by this article to buy that piece of crap.

I haven't had any problems with it. It's actually really great as a companion to a regular controller, for those games that are keyboard only.

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Looks great, wishlisted!

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Quoting: mirowell, that's how I am doing this since day 1 :)

But there is an issue with step one (STEP ONE: Enable SteamOS Beta Updates) which has a side effect: I can not run Rise of the Tomb Raider any more after doing this, the game does not recognize a Vulcan-capable setup after doing this.

My hardware and software there is GTX 950 and 396.54 as given from the beta repos. The guys at Feral did not know about any solution either :/

I've finished ROTR on SteamOS, first starting with the 387 driver and then finishing it with the 396 driver. The latter was much better under Vulkan, I got an extra 10fps on max settings (GTX 1070). To get the 396 driver you have to use the beta.

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OK I think that just convinced me to pick it up ;)

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Absolute rubbish excuses. Poor driver situation on Linux? Linux OpenGL drivers are the fastest of all 3 operating systems. It's just DirectX that seems to outperform OpenGL.

I don't mind developers pulling out of Linux releases when they have good excuses, but this is absolutely lame.

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Yep, it's been a roller-coaster of a ride, and I've loved every minute of it!
Here's to more future titles and improvements to gaming on Linux (raises glass).
Huge thank you to all the developers that have gotten us this far.

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That response leaves me satisfied and very content. Now, where's my wallet again?

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This is the best news I've had all week.
I wrote to Taleworlds a month or two ago about the broken Linux build and they said they were too busy with Bannerlord. Seems like they were not!

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Noooooooooooooooooo!

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So, let me see if I understand... If you pay in advance someone that promises something and they don't fulfill the promise, you should not complain? You are wrongly "entitled" to expect that promise to be true? Did I understand your point correctly?

You are acting like the 95%. You're not. Welcome to Kickstarter on Linux. What you say is logical, but in practice its meaningless. I hope one day that changes.

Colombo just said you don't know what entitlement means, and I guess I agree with him.

Colombo didn't really say anything at all. So who knows what they really mean? There's not much to analyse in that sentence other than Colombo disagrees with me (without providing a reason why).

And stop saying you don't mind about the delay, because it's not about you. For every potential linux buyer not minding about the delay, there will be n others that do, and the linux sales will go down whether they are "wrongly entitled" or not. Can at least the complaint about how stupid this is as a commercial strategy be made? Because we want the company to succeed with Linux, but for that they will have to do much better.

I understand not everybody has patience. What I'm saying is the devs don't do this on purpose, like you suggest. So how can their decision be "stupid" when probably they would rather not deprioritise Linux, they would rather release on time? But they can't, for technical and timeline reasons that we are not privy to, and they prioritise Windows instead, like every other developer out there.

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