I've seen saying this would happen for 4 years. If you watch what people are doing not saying, you can see this kind of thing in advance.

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I gotta hand it to Valve for the "Pool Model".

!Dota 2 Prize Pool Tiers [External Link]

https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International/2019 [External Link]

As a Linux Gamer, TI is my sort of "Super Bowl" -- so many interesting and amazing plays I just put it up on the TV via Steam Machine while I work.

DOTA 2 has come a long way since it's Linux Beta and seeing TI move from place to place is awesome.

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The AUR is a great feature but mainly because the maintainers do such a good job curating content & keeping it up to date and fresh.

The philosophy behind Arch is also part of what makes the AUR great -- Keep It Simple Stupid.

I don't mind Debian stealing a page from Arch's book but I would really be encouraged to see everyone steal a page from Gentoo's book and essentially be able to install packages by compiling them from source with custom patches or installing bins.

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Another Homerun by AMD!

Take Note. This is what <3 Linux looks like.

Big props to AMD, proud to be a AMD consumer on all my home & office electronics the last 5 years.

Open Source AMD stuff on Linux is so nice.

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I'm waiting for Civ 6 Complete before I buy another Civ 6 copy. I really don't care for their strategy of releasing a base game that feels unfinished. I'm not that desperate to play their games so as to buy the base game @ $60 and every DLC as it comes out, I can wait.

We'll see if it's truly "Complete" but I have a feeling it's not.

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Quoting: elmapulworse than that, some people are already installing windows on it to get acess to more games. if most people do that, then supporting it will be useless to increase our marketshare

We've come full circle guys. Imagine, people who want to use Windows have to start from a device shipped with Linux XD. So funny.

I've been on the fence about this device for a while and set low-expectations imagining it would never come to fruition. But seeing as how they will be launching with some retailers like BestBuy, GameStop, etc... that's off to a good start. I guess I'll see you all in about 2 weeks to see what the verdict is from the Linux Sphere.

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Imagine we could do for GIMP what has been done for Blender, what an amazing thing that would be.

In a world with Adobe SaaS I could imagine many rich companies throwing some coin at the FOSS Sauce to save money in the future.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThis goes to my wishlist. I have always wanted to buy some of these games but haven't because that was before Proton existed. I have a massive nostalgia over it's predecessor by 7th Level G-NOME originally for Windows 98.

My only contemplation is whether this one is the one or not. I would like something that's full controller support at least, and I haven't checked out the competition in a while either. Not sure if it improved.

Just curious: you know that "Proton" is just wine, right? Some extra patches, and DXVK added, but still just wine. While DXVK was the missing piece for good performance on DX11 titles, even that existed before "Proton".
Or is it more of a case that you didn't because of wanting Steam integration?

I've been using WINE since the early 00s to play StarCraft BroodWar, Counter Strike 1.6, etc...

You have to understand people have sociological economic / behavioral reasons behind the things they do. Just because I "COULD" throw some money to buy some CD or DVD in the early 00s and then spend 5-10 hours dicking around trying to figure out the right conditions to make it work -- doesn't meant I would.

Even today, Games that run fine on Proton sometimes don't run fine when downloaded via GOG and ran on WINE.

The older I get the more I have to try to make my time count for something so if I solve a problem, I document the process and share it and move on -- sometimes becoming the benefactor in the future of my past self.

Quoting: GuestI'm only curious, repeated because text cannot convey tone of voice.

If the game controls are similar to Mechwarrior Online (and they should be, MW5 is basically that with some AI instead of other players from what I can tell) a controller may work, but isn't designed for that. MW:Online is free though, I can recommend playing that to get a feel for things.

Right on, thanks for the input. I think the game I was really interested in but couldn't remember was Heavy Gear Assault [External Link] but after the initial negative reviews and steep entry price with no demo I was turned off.

Then BattleTech [External Link] looked super interesting but then was turn based.

Then I was sortof interested in Titanfall 2 [External Link] but because EA is the publisher it just makes me feel dirty and like I'd be investing my time into something only to have the feeling that EA will somehow ruin it in the near future, plus if any other launchers are involved It's just a automatic NO.

The only reason I buy computer games is because I appreciate how lazy Steam lets me be -- little to no Administration, it's always up to date, no screwing around with installers, etc... That's what I am giving my money for, "It just works" and "requires little to no work" just some [Tux Bux$].

I've long said that if the computer market ever splits up into multiple stores piracy come easily back with a vengeance. Some of these greedy companies greed trying to lessen Steam's cut could EASILY undermine their ability to sell games on PC at all. One of many reasons I advocate for Steam's Dominance (with a little exception for GOG cuz the no DRM thing is worth throwing money at too)

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This goes to my wishlist. I have always wanted to buy some of these games but haven't because that was before Proton existed. I have a massive nostalgia over it's predecessor by 7th Level G-NOME originally for Windows 98.

My only contemplation is whether this one is the one or not. I would like something that's full controller support at least, and I haven't checked out the competition in a while either. Not sure if it improved.

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Quoting: Julius

Quoting: omer666I really hope some day they will get to the beta stage, it's such a great effort.

Not sure if joking or not. It has been what other projects call "stable" for years. It's just bad marketing :(

Not at all!
Yes it's "stable," but not really feature-complete yet, and I think that's why they label it as "alpha".

Agree. Serious bug testers who get out a fine tooth comb, analyze & compile a list and compare to similar style games like say Age of Empires II Definitive Edition are not going to come up empty handed.

Granted credit where credit is due, Alpha 24 ended up being a MASSIVE improvement (3 years work).

I do think it's very close to graduating to Beta 1 -- I imagine it's fairly feature complete, but I could understand going from the number #25 to #1 feels a little wrong. Maybe they could just skip and make it Beta #25/#26 I dunno.

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