After all the effort that Valve put into the store to help developpers get attention not only the day of the release but continuously from the personal queues, the recommended titles and the curators. Features that definitly helps indie developpers sells their games long after the initial release. Saying that they don't just put the last stuff released in big on the middle of the screen on release day is not understanding at all their strategy and thinking in a very closed minded kind of way that the old business model could be any better.

There is no reasons to think that somehow the games released today are more enjoyable than the games released a long time ago, that's the way of thinking of Valve and I happen to share it.

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Quoting: InverseTelecineBut Disgaea... Damn! I still can't quite believe it! A true Japanese strategy RPG! And a really good one! PC port DAY ONE! It's a dream come true, and pretty much inarguably a very rare thing on Linux! Hopefully this will start to change that!

I'm totally with you on that.

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All the same, hopefully we’ll eventually get a port of the first game and other similar titles; it’s rare to get ports of Japanese titles on PC, rarer still for Linux.

Well we recently got Da Capo III R [External Link] which was released in Japan a long time ago but was a huge hit, and now it's on Linux.

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Quoting: monsieursauce

Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: sigzFeral already said multiple times in the IRC chan that skyrim would be too complex to port.

Did you know that Bethesda already ported it for Nintendo Switch,which use Vulkan?

Does it mean the Switch can be an incentive to develop Linux ports?

Well if you port to Linux using Vulkan then porting to the Switch will be a walk in the park, but the other way around is not completely true. Console gaming is very different than PC gaming, you only have one device to target and no video options, that make it easier. But still porting from the Switch to Linux is definitely going to be easier than porting a DirectX version of the game.

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This is definitly Hitman, the display says "115" which in base 6 equals to 47. The protagonist of Hitman is Agent 47 and this is the sixth Hitman game. Also the display should read "243.26" (look an opening of the Simpson on youtube and you'll see) so "115" was definitly a clue.

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Quoting: EgonautHow about fixing the crashes after the matches, huh?

When you search complex bugs sometimes you end up fixing tons of others, maybe it will be the case this time.

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Quoting: MaelraneI honestly don't know: does amdgpu (mesa! Not proprietary pro one) profit from this?

It would help fix this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97879 [External Link]

and potentially hangs in other games.

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Quoting: etonbearsThe problem with large OEMs offering Linux pre-installs in the way you suggest is that the financials don't work that way.

It may cost you or me 100 €/$/£ for Windows and 0 €/$/£ for Linux, but for a large OEM the costs are worked out on a per-unit basis.

Then how do you explain that?:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/dell-precision-3520-ubuntu-laptop [External Link]

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Actually doing QA on three platforms when you are only three is probably really time consuming. Especially if none of those thre person know anything about OS X and Linux. Maybe when the game will be finish they could ask a porter to do the job.

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Alienware was suppose to release an AMD based Steam Machine at some point. I hope it come soon, it could help revive the project.

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