It's almost like Epic are trying to undo everything Valve has done for us. Hope they run out of money before any significant damage is done.

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Great news rumors, wishlisted!

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: LinasI understand the importance of Steam Play and Proton, but is this really Linux gaming newsworthy? I personally don't think so, but I'd like to hear other options.

It is a game, running on Linux. Buying with Steam Play shows the developer a Linux sale.

You say you understand the importance...yet you made this comment?

Sure, all of that is true. But there are a lot of games playable in Proton (which is a good thing!), and this one is not special. The game itself or its developers literally have nothing to do with Linux. That it runs on Linux is purely due to external efforts.

But that is just like my opinion man. :)

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I understand the importance of Steam Play and Proton, but is this really Linux gaming newsworthy? I personally don't think so, but I'd like to hear other options.

EDIT: I've gotten more input than I expected. :O I see now that my stance was short-sighted, and that embracing Steam Play is inevitable. Linux has always been about do-it-yourself spirit. And making games run on Linux, whether the developer intended that or not, is certainly true to this spirit.

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Quoting: tonRSo GoL users... what's our opinions on this? For me, I think 8GB RAM on Linux are nearly to it's limit but still enough for at least 1-2 years...

I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 12 GB, but such configurations are neither common, nor well supported by hardware.

However I don't think you would see much difference by upgrading from 8 GB to 16 GB right now, unless you are constantly multitasking while gaming. 8 GB RAM and 4 GB of swap on a reasonably fast SSD is often good enough in my experience. Enabling zswap (add zswap.enabled=1 to kernel parameters) may reduce the actual swap usage while still being able to free RAM for active applications.

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And yet they won't make a package deal with only DLC for those of us who already own the base game. :(

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Nice improvement, but nothing mind-blowing. I was really hoping for that they merged Big Picture and desktop views into something new.

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It's amazing what you can do when you throw infinite amounts of money at an idea. If this takes off, Valve will be in serious trouble. And people were worried about the Epic Store... :whistle:

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicIf you want to see Linux succeed and you're a gamer on Steam, buy buy buy! Grab all those native Linux games. Hopefully by being generous with our wallets we can make up for our smaller userbase and devs will recognise that we're worth selling games to even if we're a smaller number of users on Steam.

I get the sentiment, but that would mean that each Linux gamer would have to spend multiple times more money than the average user on Steam. Even if we did, that would not be an accurate representation of the market. The only way to make it work is to grow our numbers instead.

When Steam for Linux just launched, I bought basically anything I could get my hands on, because I was so excited about it. But here I am 6 years later, and I have still not played many of those games from the first wave. In fact, I had to considerably cut down on the amount of games I purchase, not because I could not afford it, but because I started feeling stressed knowing that there is no way for me to actually play all of them.

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That was pretty well done. This should definitely be a thing.

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