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Deep Silver confirm Homefront: The Revolution is still in the works for Linux
2 Aug 2016 at 2:11 pm UTC

Almost missed that one. Hope they will live up to it. The game has very ... mixed reviews. But I really hope for a higly story driven shooter with possibilities as driving etc. like in FarCry. So I could really come to like this game.

Black Mesa developer shoots down anti-Linux troll, confirms Linux version is in progress
2 Aug 2016 at 1:40 pm UTC

The reason they disappeared is that his account was deleted.

The Talos Principle updated with more Vulkan stability and performance
1 Aug 2016 at 3:14 pm UTC

Going down to 6.5 FPS reads like some more work is to be done...

Unity game engine 5.4 released, Linux builds now updated
1 Aug 2016 at 2:48 pm UTC

Doing a good job there on the with the multicore performance improvements. Was highly needed. Unity starts to shape up.

Hard Reset Redux is not coming to Linux despite appearing in SteamDB
1 Aug 2016 at 1:34 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BOYSSSSS
Quoting: LukeNukem
Quoting: BOYSSSSSI was wondering if I should buy it, 3$ promo price is pretty cheap, good thing I decided to wait.
I would quite happily pay ten times this...

Steam sales have ruined us.
It's 3$ for owners of Hard Reset and Shadow Warrior, its not a Steam Sale, besides I wouldn't even have a Steam profile if there weren't any sales. The Middle Income in my country is 200euro minus electricity, water, food, internet and whatnot. I wouldn't bother playing games for full price.
That's actually the problem of a lot of people. Even that games are cheaper in some zones does not help a lot, since they're still too expensive for a lot of players.

That's actually why so many copies more sell on steam sales - because they get accessible for a huge number of people not having the financial background to pay anything full-priced, which can very well be that they're living in a country where the average income is a lot lower compared to some european countries and/or USA. And some people even in this countries don't earn a lot compared to the living costs.

User Stats Page updated again, come check out the refresh stats and new distro graph
1 Aug 2016 at 1:14 pm UTC

Quoting: JuliusCould you please add KDE Neon as an option: https://neon.kde.org/ [External Link]

Or maybe have the Kubuntu option as both, since it is very close to that and somewhat a successor to it?

Maybe a funny question would be also if the computer came with Linux preinstalled (Steam boxes, Tuxedo etc.). Additional it could have the answer, "no, but everything works out of the box with no extra configuration" or so.
KDE Neon is not in any way a successor of KUbuntu. They've different goals, while KUbuntu goes with the Ubuntu cycle and software releases even with KDE (except if you use backports, which is not officially supported), Neon does not.

I like Neon, they're doing a great job. Though, I decided to get my back to anything *ubuntu based distro. I'd have loved to see Tanglu getting more reception and developers, though, the project seems to decline (a year without release).

User Stats Page updated again, come check out the refresh stats and new distro graph
1 Aug 2016 at 12:59 pm UTC

Quoting: minjWell SteamOS is debian-based while Manjaro differs more from Arch than Ubuntu spins from Ubuntu. So your grouping seems a bit arbitrary, not that there's a way to both be precise and generic at the same time...
I don't think it's much more difference on Arch/Manjaro than on Ubuntu derivates.

Manjaro is basically Arch with installer, some tools and a theme. They even take the packages directly from Arch, which is why they import the arch keyring.

The only difference is that there is that they don't push to stable without testing the supported desktops. Latest seen when Qt 5.7 was released which broke unified look on GTK based desktops, where the stable updates were held back for weeks until there existed fixes for the major GTK desktops to deal with the qt-styleengine.

In my opinion this isn't something which should have been broken in a minor release which Qt 5.7 is, though, they did. Arch just rolled the packages, Manjaro held them back until there were fixes.

I've been switching distros [a lot] lately, coming from Arch to several arch-based distros (Chakra etc.), to debian / tanglu, kubuntu, neon, back to arch, and later to Manjaro. If Manjaro does not change too much, it's a distro I think I can settle now for some time.

Only thing is, that Octopi is quite bad from usability point of view, but I never used graphical package managers anyway.

Timex, a Portal 2 mod with new single player campaign, needs votes on Steam Greenlight
31 Jul 2016 at 7:12 pm UTC

Very nice. Definitely worth supporting. Would even pay for this, 40 levels to one of my most beloved games.

Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II (new port!) released on Steam for Linux
27 Jul 2016 at 5:42 am UTC

I bought it back when they were released. Though, for me the downloads seem to work properly today. Yey, sounds now I certainly hope weather will be bad this weekend.

The Talos Principle updated with more Vulkan stability and performance
27 Jul 2016 at 5:29 am UTC

Need some rainy days. Have to get onwards in this game. I didn't think I'd like the game, ended up loving it.