Well, first of all, I don't need another linux-news-site. Even though, I find covering important changes for Linux Desktops overall do have a place here - we are all Linux desktop users.

Though, in this article, you missed out the most important fact for Linux Gaming: Mir is going away. They confirmed that they'll be switching to Gnome+Wayland, abdoning Mir and Unity. That is the best thing about the news - we finally get rid of the split graphics stack in a critical path.

Personally, I don't feel the desktop shells need to be reduced. Hell, I don't even care what others use. What I see the need of is that the whole backend stuff (and especially settings backends and things like hotkey stuff etc.) need to be unified. What UI they lay above that is irrelevant. To be true, the worse part is supporting different distributions than different desktops.

Unity - as all desktops - was received differently. Some loved it, some hated it. In example, I hate Gnome3 with a passion, and find Gnome and KDE a lot too overloaded. That's why I switched to Budgie (after having had endless issues with Cinnamon and MATE, though, maybe they matured by now).

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While I see the need to sell spare keys, and I personally do not have a solution to the issue of fraud there, I would argue that the platforms (GoG, Steam, itch.io) would be the only ones being able to implement a safer system.

They know their keys and by providing a marketplace they could ensure keys are only sold once on their platform.

I go the way down that I prefer buying on Steam over all other platforms. Partly because Valve has helped us a lot and I think they should profit for that, partly because it's convenient. If something isn't provided on steam - as some indie titles, I prefer buying directly from the developers.

I never used a reseller. And I do not plan to do so. If I ain't got the cash for the games, I'll have to wait for a deal.

I can say that pretty easily being from Austria. I'm already annoyed that we pay more than the americans because the dollar is weak. It's even worse in Russia, Romania, Poland and other countries, where salery usually isn't that high. Now we can argue if we need geoblocking for the sellers being able to provide the games cheaper in some countries to be able to adjust pricing to the countries. I personally am not a friend of geoblocking, but hell - I have polish and romanian friends living on 300-400 euro a month (and I bet there are a lot of other countries, probably in south america - I'm not really up-to-date with saleries there). I can't see them spending 60 € on a title. Ever. And this is the market of the resellers.

Developers / Publishers / Selling platforms need to find a solution to that. More-or-less excluding countries for not having high saleries is a loss in the end for everybody. Gamers who can't play, and publishers, since a few hundred thousand copies for 10 € is still a lot of cash to have or not have.

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Not my kind of game. Great there is a (even reduced graphcis) workaround. But Epic Games really should pull their finger out of the nose and fix this .. it's been a while.

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I think in general racing ports do not sell that well because the audience seems a lot smaler than on RPGs or MOBAs, or even FPS.

None of my buddies plays racing games, everyone plays RPGs, RTS, TBS and FPS and MOBA games.

I myself am not the typical Racing audience either. I just wanted Dirt Rally ... Still need to buy it though, but I will wait until I can get myself a decent racing wheel for Linux. Still undecided, those I like are way too expensive for casual use.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI am a huge Civ fan, but it's honestly not a game I'd play multiplayer. Turn-based games and multiplayer don't mix very well IMHO. Still good to see this implemented for the people who wanted it. :)

Depends on, with RL friends its fun to play, even turn based.

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Never bothered even looking up that title. We got cooler racing games out compared to F1. F1 overall (the franchise) got less and less interesting the past years.

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If it works on Mesa I will give it a shot and buy it.

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Quoting: SkiskiI just tried the game last week and my CPU (i5-2400 3.1GHz) can't handle the game. It was between 10 and 30 FPS. Could vulkan help the CPU and use more the GPU? Because my GTX 960 is more than enough for this game.

Since you run a considerably slower CPU/Core and a pretty good graphics card, you'll be one of those profiting most from the Vulkan port.
Try it, I bet you double your FPS on your setup.

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Requires latest Mesa 17.1-dev (as of this post) compiled with Vulkan support.

Nej. Need to update Mesa :D. For my GPU/CPU combination it's playable, but really hard dropping in some areas where you get stuttering. If just that goes away it would be so great.

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What I'm rather wondering:

What's up to Ashes of the Singularity? Didn't hear of that game in quite a while now (9 Month?). Seems as this one will not see any release in Linux. And that one I was REALLY looking forward to.

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