There's a reason why Apple doesn't dominate the market: the 90s were a terrible period for Macintosh sales, and the failure was such that Mac sales still suffer from this.

On another hand, they almost dominate mobile phones market, on the past 5 years they were tied with Samsung. When you look at how they manage their smartphone business, you clearly see they are not willing to give up on their position as leaders, with a very aggressive communication.

Also some computer marketshares, like laptops, are still pretty much Apple-friendly. When you know a bit about Jobs and other important Apple people, you know Apple is always looking for more audience, and more profits (since around 2004, and the switch to Intel processors). Their failure to do so with computers is not intentional, it was due to poor management. Today it is better handled, but I don't think I'm their target audience any longer. They gave up on the enthusiast market to tackle the luxury market.

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There's a reason why Apple doesn't dominate the market: the 90s were a terrible period for Macintosh sales, and the failure was such that Mac sales still suffer from this.

On another hand, they almost dominate mobile phones market, on the past 5 years they were tied with Samsung. When you look at how they manage their smartphone business, you clearly see they are not willing to give up on their position as leaders, with a very aggressive communication.

Also some computer marketshares, like laptops, are still pretty much Apple-friendly. When you know a bit about Jobs and other important Apple people, you know Apple is always looking for more audience, and more profits (since around 2004, and the switch to Intel processors). Their failure to do so with computers is not intentional, it was due to poor management. Today it is better handled, but I don't think I'm their target audience any longer. They gave up on the enthusiast market to tackle the luxury market.

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Quoting: Caldazar(AMD card? Oh, you're shit out of luck then)

You are quite right in your statements but there are some missing details, and this particular quote requires more care on your part.

AMD has been neglecting their whole *NIX driver architecture for years. From the moment Steam and gaming on Linux became a thing, things started to change. First, they are actively working on their OSS drivers, something no other vendor achieved before them. Yes Intel have OSS drivers, but they've been way behind for many years and AMD was the first to get some OpenGL 4.x support on OSS drivers.

I might even consider switching in the coming years if things look that good.

You can't complain when you see people putting that kind of hard work. It's a matter if time, but things are getting better.

About your comments on Caldazar's GTX 970, I play on a GTX 660 and everything runs in High/Ultra in full HD. Things are bottlenecked but they aren't unplayable. People don't care to play at 130 FPS. Uber geeks do, but that's another matter.

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Quoting: maodzedunUntil the terrible performance difference is fixed, they can port the entire Steam library to Linux and it still won't matter. Drivers with equal performance to Windows. Not close, not acceptable, not almost - equal. And getting rid of OpenGL like yesterday. Until there is performance parity between Windows and Linux, nothing else matter. Still, that's a lot of progress compared to 4-5 years ago, I'll give you that.

In fact, Linux nVidia drivers tend to have slightly better OpenGL performance than their Windows counterparts.

Oh and you're right, let's get rid of OpenGL. But then what do you want to use? Vulkan? Developers are still just getting used to it, and don't know yet how to optimise it.

I think your words are very harsh and irrelevant. If you want developers to put such efforts in their Linux ports, what we need is an audience, and an audience won't exist without content.

PC gaming has proven that people are willing to pay for very bad Windows ports of console games, so the public is not that concerned about performance parity.

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Total Warhammer: Dawn of the Doom Guerilla ^_^

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Unfortunately, I haven't had much time for gaming lately.

I have been playing some Tomb Raider, having a lot of fun. The story is not that great, but the game's overall experience is really enjoyable.

I have been playing some Torchlight - the first one, native, thanks to the Humble Store. It's just the great Diablo-like action we're all craving for ;-)

Finally, I played Dead Island Definitive Edition for one hour and I must say I am satisfied with it. Looking forward to buying Riptide too, as according to many reviewers, it's the one title that shows the most benefits.

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This is weird, it won't launch on my rig, with latest nVidia drivers... :dizzy:

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YES!!! Finally!!!

I WANT to play THIS.

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Great post Liam, very insightful as usual.

As I may already have stated, I switched from gaming on consoles and working on Linux to doing both on Linux without feeling any shortage.

In itself it is already a great sign and I'm still looking forward to seeing what's next.

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Quoting: tjwhaynesgmailcomI think you folks are over thinking this:

Mars - Roman God of War
808 SB12S - Lyric from MC Hammer

Warhammer - in one of it's incarnations.

Already stated earlier, and it's a reliable hint for sure.

The most obvious title should be Dawn if War II, but I wonder if we're not already too late in development process to tease it through their radar. Everybody knows it's coming, and it already has a Linux launcher, according to SteamDB.

It can't be Warhammer Total War as it's been officially confirmed long ago...

So what can it be?

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