My pants will still be full from SOMA, how could I ever stand this?!? X)

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Quoting: maodzedunIn short - what appeal does a Steam Machine have at the moment? There is worse performance, a small library, lack of AAA games and Directx 12 is obviously way ahead of Vulcan at this point. And they're expensive. Like - very expensive. Not to mention the front runner of the litter cannot even upgrade its GPU (I'm looking at you Alienware). With things at their current state - console gamers will stick to consoles and PC games will just build something on their own and put Windows on it, just forcing it to boot in Big Picture mode.

It seems you try to judge the appeal to console gamers by comparing Steam Machines to Windows PCs.

For a PC, a Steam Machine has sub par performance and few games and GPU on some cannot be replaced.

For a console, it has good performance and a huge amount of games on day 1 and on some you even can change the GPU!

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I had a look at the top 100 (which actually is a top 99 if I didn't count wrong twice) for Linux support.
In the first 50, I found an astounding 29 games with Linux support.
I wondered if it's mostly Valve's own games which make Linux overrepresented in the top 10, but that's not the case.
In the first 99 games, 37 games support Linux. Many of the games not present for Linux in the second half are older ones.
I think that looks quite good for Linux, better than I expected before counting, to be honest!

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Quoting: HoriSteam Machines need high-quality games. Most of those 1500 are cheap low-quality games, and most of them are indy games. People who currently use PS or Xbox won't give a damn about those games, they will almost only look for high-quality games which, unfortunately, are very rare.

Sony and Microsoft seem to have a different view on (high quality) indie games, as they are both embracing indie...
(Of course, there's a lot of trash out there.)

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Quoting: lvlarkAnd what's more, how long ago did we reach a 1000? This has been going fast. It is, in the end, a milestone worth mentioning.

It's been half a year.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/firstperson-puzzler-parallax-game-no-1000-on-steam-for-linux.5098

I thought about writing about game number 1500 as well, but to be honest, Broadside doesn't catch my interest:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/401560 [External Link]

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I really wonder what these pads feel like...

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Quoting: liamdaweI don't have an AMD GPU yet, you're looking at Samsai for that but he's currently sick.

Get well soon, Samsai-san!

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Quoting: liamdaweThe driver is out now folks.

Awaiting your measurements! :P

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Good to see them caring for the big games on Linux, and good to see they're obviously working together with the Alien porters! Things are going to improve for AMD users as well!

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I just stumbled upon this old video of my favorite (German) let's players playing the demo... excessively:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwUSX_KB8P4 [External Link]

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