I personally see increasing issues installing linux as well, on ubuntu, on arch, even on older hardware wherr it used to work without issues I have more and especially manual steps to do (modeset for having an integrated 915 and a nvidia card - did not have to do that in the past, and seems to me like a regression in kms).

The out of the box installers get worse and worse, so I set up arch again (if end up struggling with things like that I can simply use arch again as well).

But the issues he writes about are mostly the non-issues of our current linux situation. And yes, by that I mean our unreliable graphics stack and never ending regressions in intel drivers etc. is a bigger issue.

But well, his decision. I guess it won't be much missed, I still think the reason is not a good one. Frustration on other things I would have understood very well.

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Have this on my radar since the developer marked he may port it. I am excited it is going to happen now, I love city builders (I like Hearthland as well, has a lot of potential still being early access).

I guess the port will still take some time, but as soon as released it's a must buy for me.

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Shogun 2 Total War ...

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Still too few, I miss Mount & Blade warband :) .. so I won't vote :D

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Sad, because my powerhorse in the living room running as "steam machine" is a windows one for the reason that I do have Windows only games I care about, and I only use in-home streaming for playing on my linux laptop (which really works surprisingly well).

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I got the problem that I got a quite powerful windows machine in house connected to my TV, playing most of the games using in house streaming (which works very well, I'm surprised) or on the TV directly.

I even went from playing native to in house streaming. In case of TW2, it's even performing better over network than native ;-).

I think buying games on linux (+start them) and still stream them will do the trick. I'd love more proper linux AAA titles, but until then, I'll use this solution.

Last but not least, kudos the developers of in home streaming at valve - whole DA:O and ME2 playthrough without crash or lag (though, it sometimes stated it had lag, but I didn't feel any :D).

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Kickstarted it with $110. So excited that it is not too long now .

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I personally think there are quite a lot of valid things in there. I don't think that Aspyr/Feral are "not doing their best" on the games, but that it simply is hard, and optimizing is hard. Fact is, that our graphics stack - especially x11 - is aged, even though, sdl2 handles a lot of the hard x11 input stuff pretty well.

A fact is, that we do have problems with our stack, in drm, in drivers, in mesa, in X11, supporting more than nvidia is about working around breakage in the drivers, and we know amd ones and intel ones are pretty borked (for years now).

Another hard thing is - look on the windows side. Even there, OpenGL is broken almost in every driver. If OpenGL was a real option for game development in Windows, we probably would see better implementation in the beginning and maybe game developers would even consider switching to OpenGL.

You reach a market share of 1 % by Linux, so you may not invest the same time tuning the thing as on windows, where you currently reach a market share of about 95 % of the (PC) gamers.

I personally don't think we'll have that issue a lot in the future. We'll see OGL4, and we'll see DX12. And within that, we'll see more Azdo implementations with DX12/OGL4 accessing lower level features rather than using high level methods in future. Game engine developers wanted that for a long time, and now we're there. Don't get me wrong, OGL/DX are good enough for a lot of things, but game engine developers who want and need to push the best out of the hardware - I guess that's where we're going now.

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I think it won't matter much in the future, since games / engines will go in the direction of Azdo for not getting too much API overhead - and that's supported for DX12 and OGL4.

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Hmh -- *hides credit card*. Too late. Damn!

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