Favourite thriller? I would have said Alien, but imdb lists is as a horror rather than thriller, so instead I'll say Silence of the Lambs. Though if I had to list the movie that scared me most, it would be Hitchcock's "The Birds" because I watched it as a little kid and it looked so real.

Scariest gaming moment? There were not a lot of those, the last time I remember getting heart palpitations was the first encounter with a wolf in Penumbra: Overture.

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While it's great to hear that Witcher 2 port is getting better, it's even more exciting to think that this work can also contribute to good "wrapper-ports" of other games that will never consider native versions.

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I have yet to see an AAA game that runs perfectly upon release. ;-)

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Bioshock

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Steam community id link is broken.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/http://steamcommunity.com/id/liamdawe [External Link]

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I love Linux and whomever else loves Linux gets my love as well. It's as simple as that.
Proof: http://s1.zrzut.pl/HcN3MFt.png [External Link]

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Quoting: Erikchthey liamdawe ... not only bioshock

take a look on those AAA games too, they "might" porting on Linux too (ONE BIG NEWS... SEGA WORKING HARD TO PORT YOUR GAMES FOR LINUX)

Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 (KONAMI)
https://steamdb.info/app/287680/depots/ [External Link]

Empire: Total War (SEGA)
https://steamdb.info/app/10500/depots/ [External Link]

Company of Heroes 2 (SEGA)
https://steamdb.info/app/231430/ [External Link]

And Sonic? http://steamcommunity.com/app/71250/discussions/0/613940109846998343/ [External Link]

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Valve should just publish the number of Steam for Linux downloads. ;-)

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It's also available for a variety of mobile devices:
http://www.artifexmundi.com/page/deadlings/ [External Link]

I happened to buy it on the release day and it's rather fun, though not entirely what I expected. And the restart procedure (which I've been going through a lot, as I started playing in nightmare mode right from the scratch) is far too long, which puts me off a bit.

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I really like what you wrote. Many a time I found answers to my problems by just searching the Steam forums, or sometimes using google, and I actually never but once contacted the developer directly about a problem in my port (it was about some achievements not unlocking in Civ5 and it actually turned out that they don't work in the Windows version either...). And I don't have five Linux games but 475 on Steam alone. The magic might be in a few simple things: I'm running debian, which is the closest distro to SteamOS, which is the target platform for many if not most of the devs; I'm running on nvidia, which definitely has far less issues (a friend of mine has an ATI card and he has *loads* of problems with some games); when I encounter a game-stopping bug, I simply write it in the forums (or just add "me too" if it is already written) and patiently wait for the fix, while playing other games in the meanwhile.

I think the biggest problem for companies are customers that are running unsupported distros and/or on unsupported hardware. In theory developers could say "we only support nvidia and ubuntu" but everyone knows that solution only works on paper. I'm running a rather big commercial website and when people make a wire transfer to pay for services, they are told several times, and in bold, to type order number in the title - it's the only way for the payment to be processed automatically. Still, a various percentage of people don't do that. They use different titles or put no title at all. And even if we explicitly say it's conditio sine qua non, in reality it's not like we can go and tell them to sod off. We have to support them all the same and it costs money. So all in all, we have a majority of customers who do as advised and thus don't generate any cost, and a few customers who go against the grain, and they generate 100% of support cost in their category. I could bet it's exactly the same with supporting Linux users...

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