Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: dannielloCodeWeavers it is company that is mainly responsible for wine development.

Is that so?
Didn't know that, checked the website and at least they claim so.

Makes it indeed worthy to support them. I always wanted to try CrossOver, but the price pushed me away before.

It gets on sale sometimes.

Edit by Liam: Wow man, don't repeatedly quote the same thing ;)

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: GrazenHere's a worthwhile mental check (though admittedly anecdotal). Go to a local coffee shop. Look around. How many people are on Windows? How many on OSX or iOS? How many on Linux? Now, ChromeOS might bump it up a bit if it's counted as a Linux distro, but if Linux has surpassed OSX, the evidence would be all around us.

That's exactly it. This is a reality check a few of the commenters in this group needs to take.

Here is your reality check: your local community probably represent less than 0.000001% of the overall world population, the US is one of the ~250 countries on the planet, your local coffee shop is irrevelant.

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Quoting: Jmsnz

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Uramekus"This report contains preview data that has NOT been reviewed by Quality Assurance."

well , yeah, we have our response rn with this.

Hah, that wasn't there when I first looked at it. I'm guessing they've had to put that up, due to how different it is. I did say it was suspicious!

Edit: This is now clearly noted at the top of the article, to prevent confusion.

Hey Liam, just pointing out that the disclaimer has been there with data dating back to may. I would take all of these results since then with a giant grain of salt.

This disclaimer is just here at the beginning of the month, in a few day it will be gone. NetMarketShare is a professional company that sell this data to a lot of other companies, they already reviewed the results of last month which were already an exceptional increase for Linux and didn't found any issue with it.

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Quoting: nieknooijens

Quoting: NyamiouI can certainly understand them, piracy is a real problem and they want to do something about it, but that's not the way. Actually the whole war on piracy never fixed anything, it most probably made it worse, as long as they can't change the mindset of pirates the problem is never going to go away and this is not helping.

well.. actually, an EU report stated that piracy isn't a problem at all:
https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/09/21/eu-paid-report-concluded-piracy-isnt-harmful-tried-hide-findings/#.tnw_f90lLQ56 [External Link]

On the contrary, in the case of video games, the study found the opposite link, indicating a positive influence of illegal game downloads on legal sales.

so as for video games: long live piracy!

Sorry but even if this is true, piracy is popular today because of a deeper problem where people more and more try to profit from society as much as they can while not being willing to do anything for it. The way it affect video game sales is irrevelant because in the end that is a dangerous behavior that we have to stop from becoming more popular to protect the fundations of our societies.

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This has happened for a second month in a row, and while NetMarketShare did tweak down the number after release both times (actually also the first time on release the number was higher) they still kept a high number after QA review. There is no need to stay pessimistic of overly cautious, this is real. My bet is that it comes from governements agencies and companies in Russia and China that have all the reasons not to use Windows anymore, it just make sense, too bad we don't have acccess to market share by countries which would allow us to check that.

Also still a lot of computer on the world are running Windows XP, and recent vulnerabilies on that system showed to people running those system that they have to act, and choosing Linux over paying a fortune for Windows 10 which is probably not going to run on the old computers where XP was running does make a lot of sense.

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I can certainly understand them, piracy is a real problem and they want to do something about it, but that's not the way. Actually the whole war on piracy never fixed anything, it most probably made it worse, as long as they can't change the mindset of pirates the problem is never going to go away and this is not helping.

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Quoting: kon14Sometimes I begin to wonder, has linux gaming just gone too far?

Not far enough, need more BL games :D

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Quoting: razing32I'll be honest , I never got the appeal of pr0n games.
Sure I don;t mind a titillating character but if you want pr0n just go to a XXX site and get your Hentai fresh from the source. Why bother matching gems if all you want are anime tits ??

Those are not porn, they are actual fun games that spice things up with sexyness. They are not here to masturbate to, but to play and have fun. A lot of people seems to not get it here, just try and play the games.

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Quoting: LeopardFlaw in here is , Chromebook's counts as Linux.

Where did you get that information? Chrome OS user agent string report it as CrOS, all other major Linux distro report as Linux. Why would they put them together, it's not the market share of kernels.

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Quoting: Zelox

Quoting: elbuglione

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: GuestYep, ballot stuffing is really going to help you. CDPR and Valve would be able to quickly identify the votes, what they are for, and remove them.

GOG pay attention to their wishlist. CDPR can too.

ok... BUT
GOG Galaxy For Linux (+10K votes) has been at the top of the list for over a year ... never came ... and maybe never will.

They have answered this;
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_biggest_update_yet_marks_the_end_of_beta_5e5d5/post525 [External Link]
There is no ETA, but its planned and worked on atm.
I would like some more feed back from the devs tho, dont like the silence, only makes me confused.
But thats the latest news we got from it, atleast what I know of.

That's very good news. An ETA would be better obviously, but I was afraid that they abandonned the project or put it on hold, knowing that someone is working on it now is nice to hear.

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