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Book of Demons no longer getting a native Linux port, developer plans on 'supporting' Steam Play (updated)
5 Nov 2018 at 3:50 pm UTC Likes: 27
5 Nov 2018 at 3:50 pm UTC Likes: 27
... And this is exactly what the pessimists were worried about.
Steam Play thoughts: A Valve game streaming service
1 Nov 2018 at 12:22 pm UTC
1 Nov 2018 at 12:22 pm UTC
Steam Play as a means for the streaming clusters to run Linux? Now that is an intriguing train of though that I've never thought of...
Planet Nomads updated with optimisations and some needed fixes to the Linux version
1 Nov 2018 at 10:11 am UTC
1 Nov 2018 at 10:11 am UTC
Can you choose gender of your character in this game now? I know it was on the todo-list - at least used to be?
No Brakes Games have discontinued Linux support for Human: Fall Flat
30 Oct 2018 at 10:01 am UTC Likes: 11
30 Oct 2018 at 10:01 am UTC Likes: 11
It stings extra hard when they apparently will still keep up the Mac support.
It's a sobering reminder that we are a very, very small fish in the gaming pond.
It's a sobering reminder that we are a very, very small fish in the gaming pond.
Unity are giving out a rather impressive FPS sample game free for developers to use
24 Oct 2018 at 10:32 am UTC Likes: 3
24 Oct 2018 at 10:32 am UTC Likes: 3
Wow... I'd friggin' PAY for that stuff right there. :D Gave me proper Unreal Tournament associations.
Canonical have released some statistics from the Ubuntu installer survey
19 Oct 2018 at 9:57 am UTC
Without that background knowledge this really only tells us... Pretty much nothing.
19 Oct 2018 at 9:57 am UTC
Quoting: GuestI always love statistics that prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that 1080p and lower resolutions still form the vast majority of desktop pcs and that only a tiny minority uses 1440p and 4k. Not only Ubuntu's but Steam's statistics are similar.What I hate about statistics is that there's so much truth in the saying, "there's lies, damn lies and statistics". There's too much that we don't know about these numbers to really make any value of the information at all. One thing is what Liam mention in regards to virtual machines running in low resolutions. Another massive factor is where in the world these resolutions are used. Do we find a hjigher percentage of low resolutions (and thus old hardware) in poorer regions of the world? Extremely likely. How many of the <1080 desktops are used for gaming? Etc.
Without that background knowledge this really only tells us... Pretty much nothing.
The Steam Controller on Ubuntu 18.10 (and other distributions using Linux Kernel 4.18) needs a quick fix
18 Oct 2018 at 2:24 pm UTC
18 Oct 2018 at 2:24 pm UTC
But the case of;
a lot of games were crashing to the desktopthat was only related to the issue with the controller? So after this fix there was no more crashing to the desktop?
Embrace, extend, and protect? Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network to 'protect Linux and open source'
11 Oct 2018 at 8:42 am UTC Likes: 5
11 Oct 2018 at 8:42 am UTC Likes: 5
I'm honestly surprised at many of the responses here. It looks like you haven't really been in touch with the IT world in at least ten years?
It's fair enough to be sceptical, I can totally relate to that, but over the last 5-6 years there's been significant policy changes in how Microsoft has approached open source in general and Linux in particular. So much so that it's made nonstop headlines in the IT press. Hence my surprise.
Their dedication is of a very wide nature and involves a lot of areas. Examples are aplenty: Linux version of Visual Studio Code (and a bloody good editor it is too) and MSSQL server, investment in time and money on the Linux Foundation, cooperation with both Canonical and Redhat on running their distros on Azure and Windows 10, change to supporting GIT over their own versioning system, I mean... I could go on and on. The list really is extensive. This is just how it is.
I'm an old man myself, and by God I tell you I've swore and cursed over their name many a times. I was there in the 90s and early 2000 when they did nothing but to inject and pollute every single open standard protocol on the whole god damn internet, shitty implementations where their friggin' trademark! Not to mention their CEOs and their attitude towards Linux.
But this is not the case today. Yes, they are a corporation and yes they have an agenda, but so do every other commercial company, also those who for a long time has proven to support Linux. Open source and corporations can coexist and benefit from each other - they have, for a very long time already. The Linux kernel would not have been what it is today had it not been for contributions from the big, commercial actors out there. Corporations have been depending on Linux for decades already - and Linux depend on them too.
There are no impenetrable walls between Linux and the corporate world, other than amongst evangelists and - yes I dare say it - fanatics.
It's fair enough to be sceptical, I can totally relate to that, but over the last 5-6 years there's been significant policy changes in how Microsoft has approached open source in general and Linux in particular. So much so that it's made nonstop headlines in the IT press. Hence my surprise.
Their dedication is of a very wide nature and involves a lot of areas. Examples are aplenty: Linux version of Visual Studio Code (and a bloody good editor it is too) and MSSQL server, investment in time and money on the Linux Foundation, cooperation with both Canonical and Redhat on running their distros on Azure and Windows 10, change to supporting GIT over their own versioning system, I mean... I could go on and on. The list really is extensive. This is just how it is.
I'm an old man myself, and by God I tell you I've swore and cursed over their name many a times. I was there in the 90s and early 2000 when they did nothing but to inject and pollute every single open standard protocol on the whole god damn internet, shitty implementations where their friggin' trademark! Not to mention their CEOs and their attitude towards Linux.
But this is not the case today. Yes, they are a corporation and yes they have an agenda, but so do every other commercial company, also those who for a long time has proven to support Linux. Open source and corporations can coexist and benefit from each other - they have, for a very long time already. The Linux kernel would not have been what it is today had it not been for contributions from the big, commercial actors out there. Corporations have been depending on Linux for decades already - and Linux depend on them too.
There are no impenetrable walls between Linux and the corporate world, other than amongst evangelists and - yes I dare say it - fanatics.
According to Kotaku, Microsoft is close to buying Obsidian
10 Oct 2018 at 1:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
If they purchase Bethesda I would not be surprised if the current edition of Microsoft didn't change much of Bethesdas strategies at all. That's all I'm saying. Take their takeover of Mojang, that didn't change much of their strategies with Minecraft? Also ref the recent news about them opensourcing more of Minecraft. That's not the Microsoft we knew 15 years ago.
10 Oct 2018 at 1:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: DrMcCoyThey "support" Linux where they have to, because they couldn't shut out the competition. Coorporations are not your friends, especially not big ones like Microsoft (and neither is Apple, or Google, or EA, or Amazon, or...).Your view is far too binary. The world isn't so black/white, and all corporations are not your enemy. Google contribute a *lot* to the Open Source communities (in fact I'm surprised you even included them in your list). And don't forget that Valve is a corporation too. As well as Feral. Or any of the other corporations that indeed are whom we can thank for why we got more or less every gaming title that's running on our platform today.
Quoting: DrMcCoyIf they are such a great Linux supporter, show me their recent games running on Linux.I don't see the need to. What I'm saying, is that it's LESS of a danger NOW that Bethesdas current (and let's be frank, already very limited) Linux support will die with a purchase, compared to with the Microsoft we knew before. Microsoft has changed attitude towards Linux, That's just how it is. The former Microsoft would not have cooperated with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10. They would not have included Ubuntu in their Windows Store.
If they purchase Bethesda I would not be surprised if the current edition of Microsoft didn't change much of Bethesdas strategies at all. That's all I'm saying. Take their takeover of Mojang, that didn't change much of their strategies with Minecraft? Also ref the recent news about them opensourcing more of Minecraft. That's not the Microsoft we knew 15 years ago.
According to Kotaku, Microsoft is close to buying Obsidian
10 Oct 2018 at 9:30 am UTC Likes: 2
So go ahead, be a stereotypical Linuxhead and laugh at me all you like - but fact remains the same. They are not the same today as they were twenty years ago. I would not be surprised if there will be no difference to the support Bethestda do towards Linux today.
10 Oct 2018 at 9:30 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: DrMcCoyWhy do you laugh out loud for that? It's true. I'm no MS advocate, far from it, but it's quite a distance from the old "Linux is cancer" from the former CEO, to the current MS that cooperates with Red Hat on their cloud computing platform (Azure), and is a major contributor, both economically and codewise, to major open source projects, even the Linux kernel. They are one of the main sponsors of The Linux Foundation, open sourced several of their frameworks (and a massive part of C#) and even has made a version of their SQL server to run on Linux.Quoting: BeamboomMicrosoft has actually changed with the new CEOlol
So go ahead, be a stereotypical Linuxhead and laugh at me all you like - but fact remains the same. They are not the same today as they were twenty years ago. I would not be surprised if there will be no difference to the support Bethestda do towards Linux today.