In some markets it's above 10%, nice. I'm part of the stats, too, as I bought this game on Steam some time ago. I think we have enough proof now that the Linux percentage throughout Steam is held back by the rising Chinese market with their cheap OEM Windows on every device. :-(

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At least we can't complain about the shortage of good puzzle games. Those that aren't available natively, almost surely work with SteamPlay.

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That's nice but I'd prefer "Snakebird 2" with a step up from the difficulty of the original.

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Quoting: Salvatosevery rental streaming service I've found seemed to not be Linux-compatible, be subscription-based, be more expensive than actually buying a physical medium or belong to Google and the likes.

Yeah, the ability to keep the movie is another thing that encouraged me to buy at Steam. I don't want any more subscriptions than I have and I don't like the idea of VOD where I pay half the price of a dvd for watching the movie once or twice before it's gone. I'm not a big fan of discs either, with them cluttering my shelves or the basement.

By the way, a recent study showed that the growth of different subscription services is driving users back to piracy, because every new platform aims to have its own exclusives and people refuse to pay for more than two subs. Valve might be missing a good niche with their decision, but maybe publishers weren't much interested in Valve's model of distribution and that's the real reason.

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Steam was the *only* online store I ever bought a movie from. And I bought a few dozen movies. Several reasons, but mostly fair prices and worldwide availability (there were some regional restrictions esp. on some series, but not that many).

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I picked up Cosmic Express, completed it and loved it.

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Quoting: GrabbyNote that the Nvidia driver already downclocks on its own : if you are not gaming or doing any intensive stuff, the card hovers at a low power mode until it's needed.

Yeah, but the card jumps from 6W / 139 MHz right to 28W / 1404 MHz just because I switch a window or open a new tab in the browser, and soon after that the fan starts speeding up. I don't think it's necessary for simple web browsing and I was wondering if it was possible to keep the card underperform most of the time (pretending to be a humble intel gpu ;-) and switch the profile only when I want to do some serious gaming. The thing is, I don't know much about hardware and I don't want to brick my laptop, so I'm yet to convince myself to try it...

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I have a laptop with 1060 gpu set at discrete, I wonder if I could downpower the card with this tool to avoid the fan noise during normal usage (non-gaming). Does it make the changes in real time or does it require reboot?

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Quoting: EhvisBasically the numbers say that Slay the Spire only attracted 0.3% of the Linux people on Steam. Which, considering the high quality of this game, seems like a rather low number indeed. This is roughly confirmed by the lower than average ownership in my Steam friends list.

So it seems that this game doesn't appeal to Linux users as much as others do. I can't quite put my finger on the "why" though.

The game looks good, but there is no way I'm paying $25 for it. Also, computer card games might be a niche that just happens to be sparsely populated by Linux players due to the fact that we don't have many of these available natively.

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Quoting: TheRiddickThis is a UE4 based tool?

Seems to be Unity: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlowScape/comments/am8f6h/loading_can_be_fun/efkhxsw/ [External Link]

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