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Linux market share on Steam now at a 16 month high after a rounding error was fixed
6 Oct 2018 at 8:02 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThe last time I had it was approximately six years ago - back when I ran Microsoft Windows 8... Of course, if you open the survey file and check the date, it thinks I complete one at the start of this year; the same is true for the rest of the Linux computers in our house (but different dates).

Yet according to Valve, it's all a conspiracy theory, because "the survey works as designed".
How often have you been asked which party you're going to vote for lately? Still, there's quite accurate data about voting estimations.

Linux market share on Steam now at a 16 month high after a rounding error was fixed
5 Oct 2018 at 5:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Dunc
Quoting: MayeulCYeah, well, but I have Steam's language set to English (easier for bug reports and co), so it might be a little biased.
That kind of proves my point, actually. I didn't mean to suggest that we native speakers are more important than everyone else, but really just that: “Steam clients set to English” are a very big market.
If Linux users tend to set their language to English (and Windows users way less so), it actually makes the English-only statistics unrepresentative.

Get ready to become an officer in a totalitarian state, as Beholder 2 to have a Linux version at release
4 Oct 2018 at 7:36 pm UTC

Quoting: TheSyldatI didn't hear people say that they would start buying full price windows only titles because "well hey at least it somewhat works now" . Everybody knows proton is nothing more than Valve's version of Wine so it's an alternative yes but a messy one. An alternative where I won't pay full price for .
Unfortunately, I did, e.g. people advocating buying Shadow of the Tomb Raider, although it's very likely to be ported later.

Get ready to become an officer in a totalitarian state, as Beholder 2 to have a Linux version at release
4 Oct 2018 at 6:15 am UTC

Quoting: TheSyldat
Quoting: TumatauengaThe demo works flawlessly in Proton. Tested it for a few hours, didn't encounter an issues at all. I'm glad they've chosen to make it native to Linux though. One thing that slightly disappointed me was hearing how some devs just gave up on the Linux version and decided to let it use Proton instead.
Well quite frankly its their loss there are now more and more dev teams willing to put in the effort our money will just to them instead.
With so many people seemingly playing everything with Proton, I doubt both of that...

Adventure platformer 'Little Bug' released and it's really something special
3 Oct 2018 at 7:23 am UTC

Quoting: GuestI'm probably the last one to find this out... whatever
Absolutely not. Thanks for sharing!

The Humble 'Female Protagonist Sale' is live, with some awesome Linux games
2 Oct 2018 at 6:09 pm UTC

Quoting: gabberAnd this 'underrepresented'-BS... They're fictional characters FFS.
It's clear that the fictional characters are the ones representing, not represented, right?

The Humble 'Female Protagonist Sale' is live, with some awesome Linux games
2 Oct 2018 at 5:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Doc AngeloThey separate themselves from so called "normal cis het people" and demand to be dealt with as if they were the same.

Insanity indeed.
They way to treating everybody the same is not denying their differences.

The Linux market share on Steam is at a 14 month high as of September 2018
2 Oct 2018 at 12:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Pompesdesky
Quoting: EhvisOn a positive note, I got a survey last night. On Linux obviously. :D
Got it yesterday as well, strange timing as I upgraded my hardware and installed Mint 19 about 3 weeks ago already...
Every time I had it it was on the first of the month.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS confirmed to be coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
1 Oct 2018 at 5:27 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Mountain ManNo more Total War games, please.
I'm not into them either, but I'm happy they seem to be a solid base for Feral's Linux business.

BATTLETECH gets an opt-in Linux beta on Steam
30 Sep 2018 at 3:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: devnullThe gender diversity crap from one of their devs however is a valid argument for me. It's going to take a while to shake that and their _horrid_ launch stream on Twitch. It's one of the reasons I've avoided a lot of games and a hard lesson I hope other companies take note of.
Well, I will buy this game because someone brought up such crap about it on GoL and will thus avoid it.