Quoting: Mountain ManYou should never pay for an unfinished product. This is just common sense.

Crowd funding made many games possible I bought and loved.

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Quoting: SupayI had a brief chat on Twitter with Shams

Thanks for sharing!

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Quoting: MohandevirNessus is pretty hilarious to read... Feels like he tried to run Linux from Scratch.

I didn't read the thread yet, but judging from Steam forums, the most aggressive anti-Linux people are those who wanted to use it and failed.

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Quoting: Guesttweaking an entire engine to hide stutter only seen on first launch might simply not be considered worth the effort.

Hmm... On the other hand, you never get a second chance to make a first impression...

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Quoting: kuhpunktNot sure what you mean. How/why would buying be a bigger problem? It would still be exactly how it is now. You buy a license for a game. Whether you play the game locally on your own computer or on a rented unit somewhere else makes no difference.

*edit* I probably didn't express my thoughts too well when writing them up during thinking. :) Not buying itself is the problem.

If people are still buying games, everything might be fine.
But then, how many DVDs have you bought lately...?
People stop buying stuff, be it music, films, ..., and many will stop buying games I guess.
And then it's harder to do.

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Quoting: kuhpunktThey sure can. Services like Geforce Now and Shadow already do that. You just rent a remote computer with those and access your Steam library from there.

It will severly limit what you can do, IMHO.

Many people will prefer to just play game X - not buy, download and install it first.
Hm... But then, who if not Valve is in the position to do this faster than anybody else...

Buying will be the bigger problem. Like people don't buy Netflix series, they won't want to buy games. But how would Valve be allowed to install it then, without an agreement with the developers...?

No, I don't think it's so easy.

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Quoting: ToriGuess so :) https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6315 [External Link]

Three hours from bug report to a rolled out fix confirmed working...! These people are wild and crazy! :wub:

PS: Anybody remember "You're wild and crazy"? I think it was in Epyx' "... Games" series.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnyhow, I feel like I remember hearing they've specified that you can swap in ordinary distros if you want.

If only someone would have written this in the article...! ;)

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Quoting: BrazilianGamerWishlisted. Guys, I got a question. When you wishlist a game through your Android smartphone but your favorite platform is set to be Linux on the Steam client, will developers be notified that i am interested on that game and I use Linux? Will it count as a Linux user interest?

It only depends on your OS choice, see
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/a-reminder-about-steams-platform-specific-wishlist-feature-you-should-be-using.13617

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Quoting: ZapaThe game is developed on Linux and all Betas happen on Linux but I'll have to release it alongside Windows on steam or I'm financially toast :(.

I absolutely understand!

Quoting: ZapaOn the bright side, ever since Beta 1 a ton of people asked for the windows version :D! Here's a screen [External Link] from when I released the (OUTDATED AS HELL) demo on itch (first comment at the top).

A few more asked on our Discord and on twitter! It feels amazing to be on the other side, even if only for a moment:P

:-D

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