Well obviously Tux would sound like Pingu [External Link].

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Quoting: FUltra... because wasn't one of the things about Vulkan that the drivers would not be involved as much as they are in OpenGL?

That is true, but that doesn't mean drivers are irrelevant. The drivers do much less and most of the optimization must and can be done in the applications themselves, but the driver can still be stupid and slow things down. I'm no expert myself, but I'd imagine at least the various window system integration (WSI) extensions usable on Linux (Xlib, Xcb, Wayland and Mir) might not be optimal at this point, and could cause slight differences in performance on different plaforms.

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I'm hoping for a big discount on one of the bigger and more expensive titles I've had on my wishlist for quite some time now. Thinking of The Talos Principle, Shadow of Mordor, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, maybe Saints Row IV / GooH or American Truck Simulator. I'd like to score at least one of them. If not, I'm determined to get at least a couple of the cheaper games off my wishlist.

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Quoting: BeamboomI got fifty titles on my wish list. FIFTY. Crazy.

Hah, fifty is not crazy. My list's at 68, Down from about 80 as I just cleaned it up a bit a few days ago. More sad than crazy... :'(

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Great interview, BTRE. Almost as great as the game is shaping up to be. I simply can't believe this could fail to get funded.

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Looks fabulous, and I liked SW Dig as well. This shoots straight to my wishlist top five.

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Finally bought Shadowrun Dragonfall for less than three euros. One less game on the wishlist. Also got Spelunky for free, which would be nice if it ran on Linux.

EDIT: Three, not four.

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Quoting: IgnisGOG's definition of “soon” is pretty weird.

No weirder than Valve's. :)

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Aww, someone's feeling a bit grumpy. :'(

Hey, any of my fellow traitors up for a circle-jerk?

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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.

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Quoting: HalKadoInteresting thought, I do wonder if these businesses could have survived had they done it differently. I guess you could look at apple as a great example of a computer manufacture thats happy to make profit rather then dominate market share, but its a really different approach to business, I wonder if MS would have survived going that route.

Apple would love to dominate the market (well, any market). It's definitely not for lack of trying. They've got the smallish but extremely lucrative hipster and yuppie markets in their pocket though, so they do just fine.

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