Quoting: Segata SanshiroDead Island and Dying Light are fun games, but their stories were written by 10-year-olds who have had no exposure to anything other than GTA their entire lives.

Like most AAA games and (Hollywood) movies. Anything with a story that isn't dumbed down and doesn't appeal to the lowest common denominator gets hailed in the press as the best thing since sliced bread but it's the easily digested stuff with pretty graphics that brings home the big bucks. Happily - as you said - they can often still be fun to play.

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Quoting: adolsonNot the first time Motorhead is in a game. Lemmy himself starred in Brutal Legend - also available on Linux.

Hey, don't forget this one [External Link], released in 1992. Also playable on Linux with UAE. Lemmy himself is the protagonist, kicking butt and riding his hog, sometimes simultaneously. Brutal Legend was fun though.

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The videos now seem to be available for your viewing pleasure:
Vulkan on NVIDIA GPUs [External Link]
NVIDIAs Linux Graphics Debugger [External Link]

The other NVIDIA siggraph talks can also be found here [External Link].

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI dont really see this move as "deserving praise" as I feel that since Ubuntu is one of 2 supported Steam distros. I feel that having proper nVidia drivers is their duty to their users. Still it's good news, but it's like praising an employee for doing the job they were hired to do.

Except that it is technically Valve who supports Ubuntu as a platform for their product, not the other way around. I doubt Valve actually pays Canonical to support Steam users.

Regardless, I agree that Ubuntu should have provided an official source for proprietary display driver updates for current (and LTS) Ubuntu releases ages ago. For hardware support if not for gaming.

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Quoting: crackhashWhat about the mesa driver? There is only oibaf ppa for that.

And AFAIK the aforementioned Xorg-edgers.

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Quoting: Xpanderfirst time i hear about motörhead.

o.O

I guess this is quite plausible if you don't live in the western world, but otherwise I have a hard time believing you've managed to avoid their "Ace of Spades". It's been all over radio, tv show soundtracks and ads, games and movies for literally decades. Hell, one of the most awesome 2D brawlers of the early nineties (on the Amiga at least) was all about Motörhead and starred good old Lemmy smashing baddies with a guitar. But I guess it's entirely possible you've heard their songs but never heard of the band, especially if you're younger.

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Quoting: MyeulCLooks good, but not really future proof, when everyone will be using "LinuxApps" or whatever docker-like desktop container.

How would you go about supporting a standard that doesn't exist yet? No installer or packaging scheme is future-proof in this sense.

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Quoting: GuestWhat good is an distribution-agnostic installer if you cannot get a refund if the game doesn't work?

Basically they require you to reproduce your problem on one of the supported distros if your problem is technical. Seems sane to me. After all, it's arguably not a technical problem in the game if it doesn't work on an unsupported and untested platform.

However distribution-agnostic the installers are and how many distributions the games actually run on, they are still only supported on Ubuntu and Mint. Just like Valve only officially supports running the Linux version of Steam on SteamOS or specific releases of Ubuntu the last I heard. How strict this policy is in practice, I cannot say. I've never asked for a refund from either company.

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Quoting: adolsonWelcome to 2007, everyone!

If the script does what it says on the tin and properly supports current freedesktop standards (hope so), who cares?

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Quoting: liamdaweThey would ban our server if we attempted to scrape them, and I don't feel like asking them to make an API just for us. As I can already guess the answer.

Ah. Forget it then. I guess the next best thing would be prominently displayed links to these steamdb pages on the GOL sales page. I doubt they'd see any problem with that approach.

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