Quoting: GuestThe problem this year is that VR [at GDC] is going to drown everything else out while not paying attention to much else. :-/

Pass. $800 for a headset that requires performance from CPU's and GPU's that barely exist yet.

Maybe developers are excited, but as a gamer I'm not sure I'll ever be excited by VR.

As for RocketLeague, feeling a lot of excitement and disappointment. This title has been a rodeo.

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I'm rocking two GTX 970's right now in my rigs and the good part about nVidia cards is it generally plays anything at a good framerate.

We exclusively use Archlinux. That one poster who dual booted to Windows on AMD for games that didn't run on Linux was interesting but I would rather be 100% Linux.

I would have loved to have bought some AMD 390's and gained the open source driver advantages of running things like Plymouth and having better TTY state changes and preservation of GPU over state changes. However this time last year I couldn't justify throwing $800 into AMD and getting a buggy problematic experience. Maybe for their HSA APU's which are open source but not for their GPU's.

I guess I want games on Linux and I want it now, and I want it to run good so even though I loose 30-50% performance on the GTX 970's they perform adequately.

I would love for our next cards to be AMD, however AMD is going to have to give me driver reasons to make the jump, not just Ideological or being Technically superior in hardware specs.

Real World Performance equaling or trumping nVidia in Open Driver needs to outweigh the loss of games that don't run well on AMD Linux.

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This time period of Linux is like watching the fall of Berlin Wall, or waking up September 11th, 2001, or the fall of the Roman empire.

It seems that Push is coming to Shove and this whole Microsoft Store lock-jaw tactic may yet prove futile as SteamOS/Linux is becoming a mature platform.

Can't wait to get this :) Very exciting time to live and watch Linux.

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When will developers realize that simple sometimes is just as good or better than an all out assault for the best map graphics.

This looks like CS:S and that gives me a big warm feeling like I would love the fuck out of it.

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Quoting: PeciskSo strap on, review games, ... Linux is not going away as a gaming platform. It will only get better. Case closed.

Erm.... strap what on? I've never heard that phrase used as you just used it.

Strap up implies getting ready for combat grabbing your artillery. Buckle Your Seat-belt implies shits gonna go real fast. Strap on implies? [...]?

Quoting: Pecisk

Quoting: toorHere: http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/461763/linux-et-le-jeu-video-un-beau-roman-d-amitie-qui-ne-fait-pas-recette-sur-steam.htm [External Link]
The most famous french video game website also just released an article about how "failure steam is with linux". Claiming that it's not going well at all and will disappear.
Do you think microsoft is getting major video game medias to give a bad image of steamOS ? :þ

Microsoft is well known for handing out PR money to sink competition. It is nothing new, especially regarding Linux. However you also must consider that huge part of so called "journalists" are just Windows users, and are ignorant as hell. They just don't know anything better so don't even have to be paid to paint bad image of Valve Linux strategy.

Because M$ has never used Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to sway the dumb masses into making choices that benefit their business eh, oh wait.... no - they've done exactly that.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX [External Link]

Quoting: amonobeaxLet's not forget we're not at the same page as Windows feature wise. Many Linux users don't care, but we're talking about ppl coming from the Windows ecosystem their rationality might differ from ours.

Momma says just yesterday after being exclusively on Gnome & Pantheon for a couple years now that using Windows is "strange" and "weird" and that "she doesn't like it". People like what they know.

Of course Microlites don't know about the awesomeness of Shell, SSH, HTOP, IFTOP, X Forwarding, Apt/Yum/Pacman, WPS Office (Only free on Linux), Tabbed File Manager, Tomahawk, Gnome/KDE Plasmoids/Extensions, Rsync

And the biggest of all is that Copy / Paste is not part of explorer.exe which crashes regularly leaving your file operations in some sort of purgatory where you have no clue how far it got without re copying/moving 100GB of files.

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I really want to know why people like Sunless Sea so much, seems like a boring underdeveloped game without content or excitement.

No diss intended, what I want to know is what makes it amazing?

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"Depending on sales of the game, there will be version for both MAC and Linus"
http://steamspy.com/app/413150 [External Link]

Lets see hmm....

135,090 as of March 3rd x 14.99 is a sales income of erm..... $2,024,999.10

Yup, 2 Million 24 Thousand Dollars.

Linux & Mac version confirmed! Thanks Bexy!

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Quoting: Incandescent

Quoting: ElectricPrismSteaming from Windows Laptop to SteamOS, seems to run well on 3rd Gen i5 with modest specs. Doesn't run in WINE Day 1 from my efforts.

Will buy 4 more copies later when native Linux comes out.

I hope this doesn't come off as strange, but are you LucidFlux?

lol, nope I'm ElectricPrism

Quoting: WorMzy^XP mode for me
It's been more stable for me in wine, than it has for the girlfriend on Windows. ^_^

What dependencies did you use and I assume Wine 1.9.x ? No go for me so far.

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Steaming from Windows Laptop to SteamOS, seems to run well on 3rd Gen i5 with modest specs. Doesn't run in WINE Day 1 from my efforts.

Will buy 4 more copies later when native Linux comes out.

September 16, 2015

Multiplayer still needs some work, and I am looking into possibly switching to MonoGame, which would allow for a Mac and Linux release. I can’t make any promises about that, but I’d really like for it to happen.

Linux ConcernedApe Stardew Valley [External Link]

I think he should port to FNA if it's XNA 4.x just like Terraria did.

30 Hours in, it's Freekin Fantastic.

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I thirst for HD HQ games, it feels like we're in a drought or something this past week, or maybe my OCD of checking GamingOnLinux is just showing through a bit.

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