I am really looking forward to this, love Croteam! But no way I will pre-order anything again.
I will buy it when it's out.

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Icculus (Ryan Gordan) is doing the porting. Yet their post make it seem like they are doing it themselves. It doesn't matter either way, just seems wrong when I know better.
Proof is on Icculus's trello board here
https://trello.com/b/y0wvS4ec/icculusboard [External Link]

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Why are people surprised at KDE for desktop for gaming? Does it really still hold that stigma?

I have never used anything else since 2002. Except for just having a look/fiddle.
In fact for me KDE is Linux. If KDE didn't exist I am unsure if I would have ever made the permanent switch to Linux at all. The rest seem so limited in options/configuration/eye candy and polish. (ALL MY OWN OPINION :)

If your computer is up to the job of playing games, I doubt your DE will change anything.

Here is the average frame rate shown at the end of Unigine Valley in benchmark mode for a comparison. https://unigine.com/products/valley/ [External Link]

KDE - 60.6
TWN - 60.7 (does it get lighter than this?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm [External Link]
Razor-qt - 60.7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt [External Link]
openbox - 60.7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openbox [External Link]

*Sep X* - 60.8 (a seperate x-session without any DE or WM at all) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gaming#Starting_games_in_a_separate_X_server [External Link]

At least for me it makes no difference. 0.1 is nothing. A simple re-bench can lead to more than that in difference. No need to change from what you like most just to game with.

Pick the Environment you like and be happy knowing your performance will be just fine.

My System
Manjaro 64bit KDE
i74770k cpu
GTX660ti 2gb with 343.22 driver
16gb ram

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I have played over 5 hours, it's extremely fun! Better than alot of games I have payed good money for.
Only annoying thing I have found is the game doesn't save your graphic settings, so you have to set it up each time you play.

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Am I allowed to win a key for my daughter?? If so, not only do I love gamingonlinux but so will she. As for Aspyr, they are definatally the Linux game developer of the year. Or they would be if that was a thing :) I feel they have done, and will do more to get gamers playing on linux than anyone else except valve themselves. They are also very talkative with us in steam forums.

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I agree valve needs to curate the linux versions, to ensure they have everything they should have.
Here is games I can remember have broken controller support for xbox360 controllers using xpad kernel driver. (Same driver steamos is using)

Grimind has broken controller support and dev admits it, and doesn't seem to wanna fix it. He is using SDL, yet he programmed the controller input with glfw. People found a way around it by using xboxdrv and some program to make controller register as keyboard presses. Dev had this to say at first.
"Nice! Thank you. I didn't manage to implement this on Linux, so this looks like nice workaround. Thread pinned." here is link
http://steamcommunity.com/app/265380/discussions/0/45350791713656622/ [External Link]

Any game made with gamemaker like Risk of rain, Stealth bastard deluxe
Dev from stealth bastard deluxe seemed interested, gave us hope of a new build of gamemaker months ago but then vanished
http://steamcommunity.com/app/209190/discussions/0/810923021661107869/#p1 [External Link]

Electronic super joy has a button repeat issue, meaning the game can't be played because you can't double jump. Actually a whole lot of games made with Unity engine have this issue. That many I wont list them. Here you see the dev from electronic super joy, telling everyone to install xboxdrv instead of xpad to fix it. Which is far from acceptable, especially on steamos,
http://steamcommunity.com/app/244870/discussions/0/792924952243285553/ [External Link]

All these games off full or partial controller support on store page. I could go on, but you get the idea. This sort of thing can't happen when people are running a console (steamos) it will flop otherwise.

Then there are also games missing features completely in linux version. Like Euro truck simulator has had the radio feature stripped from the game and no ability to play your own .mp3 music. They did it because they don't want to pay for codec rights. In windows they actually just tell windows media player to play it, which avoids the issue.
I have contacted them repeatedly about it. Shown them how they could do the same thing with mplayer on linux. Even sent them c++ code that controls mplayer as an example. Yet nothing.

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All that page is saying is that the Linux version will only be available from steam.
It is on windows aswell. The version for sale now on indiegamestand is windows only.

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I refuse to crowd fund games. And I also refuse to pre-order now too. So I don't even read the articles normally.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: SkullyI am running on Arch based Manjaro 64bit with nvidia blob and all the series work perfect out of the box. So do they have something to fix or do you?

You’re obviously dumb and/or can’t read.
Unfortunately GoL has no blocking feature yet…

Edit: what I mean is, I’ve taken the time to list several discussion thread that clearly show it’s far from being "just me". And many many games work perfectly fine, so why can’t THEY (11bit) make THEIR game work fine too?

Wow really, you show me 3 links with a combined total of only 8 people with an issue. I don't think you could of found a game with less people having a issue. One of the threads has had a complaint since jan. It would take waaay more people than 8 people to make me think something is wrong with it.

Calling me dumb was really un-called for. GOL might not have a blocking feature but they have a ban feature, so I would try a be a bit more pleasant in future. Or just don't reply to my Articles.

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I am running on Arch based Manjaro 64bit with nvidia blob and all the series work perfect out of the box. So do they have something to fix or do you?

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