... Or is this just damage control?

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Very interesting read indeed. The article would have benefited from being trimmed down a bit (the editor in me speaks now :) ) but great questions and very interesting answers. It's fun to get such insight even if one is never to become a games dev myself.

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It's probably the most recurring topic on this site nowadays (and rightfully so), but I really am surprised each time I hear a dev saying Linux share is only 1.5% of the total sales like it was a disappointment. It's what the current Linux platform share on Steam is, for crying out loud! One tiny bit of research would tell them 1.5% is the likely outcome.
It should be anything but surprising that this number were reflected in the sales stats.

But this also underlines how much our userbase need to grow, and grow by much. Ideally we need to grow past the Mac share, that's the major milestone to reach for.

And the only way I see that to be possible, is via embedded devices ala "consoles"/"Steam Machines". Far too much for comfort depends on them. I don't see how we can win without a success there.

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Quoting: StyromaniacI want advanced AI, AI guided animations and advanced physics. No more AI derps, no more indestructible objects (hopefully).

I've been hoping for this with every new technological step for the last two decades now. So far, all I've seen are big steps in gloss and baby steps in everything else. But I've not given up yet.

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This is really great news, it's "the shizzle" right now. If I am not mistaken it's the most popular game on Youtube now.

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Quoting: Sabunhealthy rivalry is a good thing. UE4 was ahead of Unity, now Unity seems to have jumped up front. It's good for all of us ^_^

By all means, it is indeed. These are days almost unimaginative a few years ago.

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Quoting: SabunThis is awesome sauce! This also officially means the Unity team have one-uped the Unreal team. UE4 still doesn't have an installer for Linux right now, and the compiling process is very heavy and usually hit-or-miss for quite a number of folks.

It's cool and all to get the Unity editor, but let's not spread FUD here. The compiling process is as complicated as one line in the terminal to start the compile script, and has always compiled with no issues on my Ubuntu setup (an anecdotal argument, I know, but still).
From there you could always make a DEB out of it, if you like. Sure, it's no installer yet but it's not a tough job to install it on a supported distro.

It's also tempting to mention the relative quality/capability of the two engines, but let's leave that discussion for later. :)

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Quoting: MaelraneI fear that then it will not happen at all. Nvidia has far more resources to spend on optimizing their binary blob. So it's a classic chicken/egg-problem.

Well I guess the crowd will never start "spreading nonsense" in the first place, then? ;)

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Quoting: MaelraneOh, but I was not talking solely about the GOL-crowd, but in more general terms. Sorry if it sounded differently ;)

I'm pretty sure that as soon as the results are starting to roll in about AMD getting their shit together, that the word will spread fast in the Linux camp. We do not like monopolists, and many of us use and recommend Nvidia today for pure pragmatic reasons.
I'd love to shift to AMD myself, but it won't happen until their cards offer an equal or better performance than Nvidia.

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Quoting: BeamboomOnly AMD cpus though. Not grus.

Dude, there's a big R9 390 right in the middle.

Ah my bad! Now that's interesting.

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