I plan on buying a steam machine once they are released. This has shot to the top of my list.

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Normally we should look at these Linux hating rants to better see the weaknesses of Linux game development. However, there is absolutely no substance in his post. Some configurations can be painful to install Linux (Windows too), but the rest of his complaints are pure garbage

"Linux has proven to be Frankenstein OS assembled from a disparate array of barely functioning parts with horrible reliability and little potential for future improvement."

None of those things are even remotely correct. It's so wrong I laughed when I read it. Linux game development has a lot of short comings, but he doesn't mention any of them.

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Quoting: Lemmywinks29I bought the game and enjoyed it quite a bit, but I felt like I was going to be one of the very few people paying $12 for such a game.....looks like I was right.

That being said, I completely got my moneys worth. It's hard to explain the appeal, but I find the aesthetic beautiful in a lonely Ico sort of way.

You convinced me, I now represent 2% of the Linux sales.

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Looks fun, its on my wish list now. When it goes on sale, I'll buy it.

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Broke my preorder rule and my promise I made to not by any more games until I played the ones I have. Thanks Aspyr :P

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Quoting: Guest65" TV, yeah right… I wonder what he uses to watch movies in his olympic swimming pool.

I have an 86" screen. $300 for projector and $120 for 86" projection screen. That's about the cost of a 42" LCD screen.

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Quoting: sevThis is so typical. Linux users support a platform rabidly and loyally, promote it loudly, and then the platform abandons us. Humble Bundle, eeePC, Dell OEM Ubuntu machines, Scratch... I bought every Humble Bundle release when they were staunchly cross-platform, but lately they have not bothered. Such a pity.

This latest release is nice for being semi-cross platform, but I'd like to see more effort from them before I fall back into throwing my money at them.

Same here

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I game on Linux because I use Linux. I use Linux because
1. faster and smoother
2. lots of choice in programs and DE
3. open source
4. less to worry about security since blanket viruses/worms/malware don't target Linux
5. after 4 years it still runs at the same speed without having to reinstall the os (unlike windows)
6. console in widows is horrible and can't even come close to bash in number of functions
7. it takes a week to recover from a hard drive failure to make windows usable, in Linux I have a text file of all the commands to install or compile all the programs I use and it takes a less than an hour to get my desktop back to the way I want it

n-1. Linux sounds cooler than Windows
n. (absolutely the last reason) it's free

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Quoting: pbI think the delay has to do with Ubuntu 14.10 releasing in October and the new Civ will have to be thoroughly tested on this new release.

There is no delay, apparently they never intended to simultaneous release on all platforms. Since they are using another company to port, they pretty much would have had to delay the Windows release for it to happen.

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The game looks like it would be really fun. It is really going to be painful to wait for the Linux release. They have it listed as soon after the Windows release. I hope they don't pull a Larian on us.

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