Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: CatKillerI expect those videos to end with "Windows on this device kinda sucks."

why ?

For one, because if you install Windows, and then install Steam's "new big picture == same interface as the Deck" on it, every time you start the device you'll still be booting into Windows and only then using your controller stuff (which Windows is not intended for) to start Steam. It'd be a pain.
Keeping SteamOS on, you boot and your games are right there.

There is already an option to start up Steam when you log in and also to start Steam in big picture mode (obviously will be changed to whatever the new mode is called). So all the user has to do is set those two settings the first time and then they are good to go after that.

Also, it has a touch screen and two touchpads so navigating a UI shouldn't be difficult.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: KohlyKohlGnome out of the box is ugly and to make it useful you have to add plugins to it. The default should be a useable desktop without the user having to do anything.

Imagine if a Windows user had to add a taskbar themselves...

Say what you want about KDE but out of the box it is useful and a user doesn't have to do anything to it.

Indeed it was necessary to add a start menu taskbar in Windows 8

Yeah and they added it back in soon after

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: rustybroomhandleI wager a hefty chunk of Linux users do not allow the survey because "oh no, privacy!"

I'm not sure. I could also imagine Windows users say "No, why would I?!?", while Linux users, having eagerly waited for their vote, scream "Hell yeah!". At least I did! ;)

You are all making this too complex. In my experience people just click yes to anything that pops up without reading it.

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Quoting: PJ

Quoting: SchattenspiegelLet's hope the ones crossing over do not come into contact with GNOME desktop first. Otherwise they might start to find windows 11 not so bad after all. ;-)

and that's debatable. My personal experience is that when I introduce some non-techie to Linux Gnome works best (with addad dock and some minor tweaks). Those were folks that actually kept using Linux.
With "techies" KDE is usually the best choice. Sucks with default settings but you can do almost anything with it.
IMO one of the issues with Linux desktop is by default every single DE sucks... even though every single one (among the major ones) is actually awesome.

Gnome out of the box is ugly and to make it useful you have to add plugins to it. The default should be a useable desktop without the user having to do anything.

Imagine if a Windows user had to add a taskbar themselves...

Say what you want about KDE but out of the box it is useful and a user doesn't have to do anything to it.

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They were hesitant to port over Trine 3 and didn't bother with Trine 4. This is not a surprise by any means.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSo... if Feral isn't porting it for Linux due to Proton... that just means they make no money on the sale of the game, right? As it is published by Sega. Sega gets that money. Sounds like Feral is going to give in and try to survive off the Mac? Most macs can't even run the total war games...

Most of their ports these days are on the Nintendo Switch and iOS.

We'll probably see a native Linux port from them someday again and they will continue porting to Mac OS as well. However, those two platforms are probably low priority for them at this point.

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: barottoBut Long term I can see porting companies and Linux professionals losing their job and native versions disappear form the market. There's a risk Linux won't be seen as a target platform ever again. I'm not sure it's a good thing...

Who knows what happens in the future, but the status quo always changes. Blockbuster died due to online streaming. Should we have kept Blockbuster artificially alive - just for the sake of it?

While it would have eventually done them in, until recently Family Video was still around. Blockbuster was expensive and didn't adapt to online streaming.

In this case, Feral has no choice because Valve decided to go with Proton and not native ports. There is no alternative plan that Feral can take and honestly even with out Valve it wasn't looking good.

For now, I think something like Unity is the best chance of getting a native Linux port these days.

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Quoting: benjamimgoisGreat article Liam ! I still remember the faster zombies article, that thing was really a hit by that time. I would suggest to add a note about CEDEGA [External Link], for those that are old enough to remember, it was the beginning of Linux gaming before steam.

I still remember walking into GameStop in 1999 and seeing boxed Linux versions of Quake and being confused as to why anyone would sell boxed version of Linux games (I had already used Linux for 6 years by that time).

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Steam would be the easiest route for them to take. Otherwise, they would probably end up having to do native ports + finding a native store to add them to.

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I'm surprised this is running and id Software game. I guess Linux Gaming really is becoming a big deal finally.

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