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Black Mesa developer shoots down anti-Linux troll, confirms Linux version is in progress
8 Jul 2016 at 11:00 am UTC Likes: 5

You may or may not heard of a user who goes by the username "meraco" on Steam.
Totally have. Great to see this.

Today GOL turns 7 years old!
7 Jul 2016 at 6:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Thanks Liam! I will watch it in my break - I just need to convince my boss that the break is four hours long today. :D

Today GOL turns 7 years old!
6 Jul 2016 at 10:12 am UTC

Quoting: liamdaweThe livestream is nearly into hour three, the girlfriend is being subjected to Outlast in the dark right now!
I couldn't attend - do you have a recording?

Today GOL turns 7 years old!
5 Jul 2016 at 6:27 pm UTC

Happy birthday!
Thanks for your website!

GamingOnLinux turns 7 years old on July 5th! We are going to celebrate in style!
2 Jul 2016 at 5:17 pm UTC

Too early to congratulate (at least that's the custom in my country), but not too late for a recommendation, I hope:
Do play Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime with her! I got a s**tload of swearing from my girlfriend/wife with that one! :D

ZED by Eagre Games reaches the funding goal, developer thanks GOL and the Linux community
30 Jun 2016 at 5:07 am UTC Likes: 1

That's very cool!
And it's something people could be pointed to when they say there's no money in Linux gaming.

Desktop Environments have been added to the user statistics graphs
27 Jun 2016 at 8:43 am UTC

Quoting: HalifaxKDE Plasma 4 in Debian 8.4 "Jessie" is the only DE worth using. Why, oh why, did Plasma 5 have to suffer a group brainfart and think "streamlining" the goodness of Oxygen down to the devolved Breeze theme was a way forward? X-)
I'm in the process of leaving KDE due to it's state in Debian testing. Has KDE become that bad or is it just the testing state?

8 out of the 10 current most popular Steam games support Linux
8 Jun 2016 at 9:53 am UTC

Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: omer666On another hand, they almost dominate mobile phones market, on the past 5 years they were tied with Samsung.
Only in the US. In the EU and the rest of the world Android is the clear leader with more than 80% of the market.
I was surprised about this statement as well.
Apple is (still?) doing well, but far from dominating the market in terms of share, and nowadays it even looks like they're no more dominating it in terms of inovations.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/271496/global-market-share-held-by-smartphone-vendors-since-4th-quarter-2009/ [External Link]