Quoting: JudasIscariotIf you ever have any questions, shoot me a PM, I work for GOG and all :)

Could you tell us about GOG Galaxy for Linux? Is is coming soon?

Sorry but I must ask :D

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionBefore we proclaim that Linux users earned Facepunch an extra 700K, let's remember that a huge proportion of those sales were probably at a discount. I would be willing to bet the true figure is several hundred thousand dollars lower. And that's not a Linux problem, PC gaming in general is huge on price cuts and seasonal sales.

Quite right. And I would also add that Linux sales can quite easily be counted as Windows sales by Valve if for example you've bought the game on your Android phone or on another computer and you haven't played it in the two weeks after purchase.

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Quoting: dmantioneThe Rocket League SteamOS branch is now regularily updated, so I guess it will really happen for this game. For the other named games, I have little hope.

https://steamdb.info/app/252950/depots/?branch=steamos [External Link]

It has been updated regularly since last year. Expect when nearing release of a new patch, there has been regular updates on this branch. The Linux version was also added to a temporary branch named "digitalhearts" which is a QA company two times, one in January and one in June. But none of that now can give us an idea about when the port will be released.

We did get those statements recently :

Quoting: PsyonixAs of right now, we don't have a release date, but we are nearing a release window. However, we still need to polish more, make sure that cross-play properly functions, as well as address remaining bugs.
I'm really sorry for the prolonged delay

Quoting: ValveIt's not released for Mac; both versions are still in the process of going through an intensive QA pass.

They seems positive, but as we still don't have any explanation at all for the delay I don't have much hope.

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Quoting: c927776If there is a delay with Linux version it means that Linux version was afterthought which means that original source is optimized for Windows and "port" will be bad as usual.

Not necessary, it could mean that they were in the last part of development but very late and since they didn't want to delay the release they decided to focus on fixing Windows-only issues and doing only testing on Windows to be able to release Windows on date and then be able to release Linux later when enough fixing and testing is done on that platform as well.

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It's just an updated version of the video they released in November. But it's nice they took the time to update it and that they are pushing for the adoption of the Steam Machines.

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Quoting: lucinoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_VFKqw1q2Q

View video on youtube.com

Windows cannot win in the long run.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: GuestAs I mentioned before, I don't mind this, in fact I think it's something SteamOS is quite useful for.

I don't mind it, either, since a static platform is easier to develop for, and if it will work on SteamOS then it will work on any distro (at least in theory), but the way they say it almost makes it sound like SteamOS isn't Linux, when it actually is.

Well, in fact that does tell us that the open source drivers are not going to be supported.

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Quoting: KristianYou need to read this to understand Valve: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf [External Link]

Beware that if you read this you might realise that there is now very little chance that HL3 ever come out.

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Quoting: HyperdriveI'm confused over why no one have looked into solutions like http://appimage.org/ [External Link]

/K

Works with most reasonably recent desktop Linux distributions. Well, almost.

Not very reassuring.

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Phoronix tests have "-autoconfig_level 3" in the command line as recommended by Valve (see here [External Link] to have best looking settings every time.

Full Phoronix test config for Dota 2 is here :
https://openbenchmarking.org/innhold/6787c1cbb500e92a0b1e72fee354b026f6b29981 [External Link]

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