Quoting: skinnyrafThe question is if there is the target audience is big enough. Sales figures suggest there is not.

Have the sales figures been released, or is this an assumption? I don't doubt you, just curious as I haven't seen anything concrete.

Just remember, Steam Machine sales figures might have little to do with the size of the market, and more to do with the state of the product itself. Valve is not creating a whole new market but trying to take a slice of the console and PC gaming pie. Steam Machines are different but not revolutionary from a consumer standpoint. They're just another alternative to current gaming systems.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThose rendering techniques are probably what the Steam Link sort of utilizes as well, you can see it if you're running around at full speed in Fallout 4, the textures on the ground sort of blur and become rather crappy looking, but the framerate stays solid.

No, that's just Steam Link's lossy video compression showing its limits.

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Quoting: liamdaweMint always gives me some kind of weird issues, always something different too. Not only that, but their security policy still annoys me. While they have taken steps to improve it, it's not enough for me to sing their song again.

Just FYI--and no I'm not trying to convert you back--did you know in Mint 18 the update manager actually asks you at first run if you want to select every update by default, even kernel and other high-risk updates unlike before. This kinda makes the security policy one click removed from Ubuntu, instead of the five clicks it took before. But maybe that one click is enough to break the camel's (Liam's) back? :)

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Quoting: SangreDeReptilOne small note: Regency Solitaire wasn't listed as a game with Linux support, despite having a DRM-Free build. I contacted the developer and now it's correctly featured.

There was a game stopping crash bug on Linux with one of the levels. I reported the problem and the dev should have a fixed build up in the near future. The game itself is good casual fun, for those moments when your brain isn't quite up to another level of Hexcells. ;)

PS: There's no full screen option on Linux, but "BORDERLESS WINDOW=1" in ~/.Grey Alien Games/Regency Solitaire/RegencySolitaire.ini seems to do the trick just fine.

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Quoting: Mountain ManBe wary of Microsoft's interest in Linux. Remember their "embrace and extend" strategy, which is really "search and destroy". They'd love nothing more than to shut the whole thing down.

How would this even work? How could MS embrace, extend and extinguish Linux? Fork the kernel (and/or the GNU userland), "extend" it in incompatible ways, and convince the world to switch to their fork and all of the current copyright holders to drop GPL? Funny stuff. :)

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Quoting: constMaybe this walkaround then should be added to the article or a new article? A lot of information about game-fixes is really hidden in comments and discussions in this community.
Something like wine's appdb would really be a blessing :(

I'm sure the GOL wiki could facilitate something like this. Just needs someone to make it happen.

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We could do with some JRPG goodness. This one doesn't seem half bad.

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Chaos Engine is pretty much the only Amiga game of this type I can remember playing... and I didn't like it much. So probably not my cuppa. The art is pretty though.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Out of 350 reviews 80% are positive, I feel like they must be playing a terribly different game to me.

Maybe they don't all share your irrational hatred of the beautiful color green. :P

puke puke puke ;)

Ah, now I see why you ditched Mint in favour of Ubuntu.

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AFAIK it's an in-house engine. And according to Ethan Lee's twitter comments, based on a GL trace the graphics code seems like a weird mess of ancient and modern OpenGL. That can't be good.

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