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Latest Comments by lucifertdark
Turns out Linux market share on Steam did not go back up in December
8 Jan 2018 at 9:33 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TheSHEEEPYeah, absolutely. I took part in the survey at least 5 times in the last 2-3 years. Each time, I just happened to be on Windows (once via Wine)...
Then stop doing it, only do the survey when it pops up on Linux.

The Talos Principle going Fusion, Croteam dropping OpenGL & Serious Sam 4 still coming
5 Jan 2018 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: g000hAhhh Croteam... Happy Days ahead. Serious Sam 4 will do a great job of filling the Linux "DOOM" void.
Who needs DOOM when we have Serious Sam?

The Talos Principle going Fusion, Croteam dropping OpenGL & Serious Sam 4 still coming
5 Jan 2018 at 10:10 am UTC

I wish they'd switch the models & textures in the older games to match Serious Sam 3 so they all look as good, I know it would be a mountain of work to do so it's probably not going to happen, but I can wish for it anyway.

Unless it's on their to-do list & I missed it. :D

First-person sci-fi game 'TARTARUS' is now available on Linux
22 Dec 2017 at 3:56 pm UTC

Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02If i remember correctly devs are from Turkey.
That would explain why the subtitles defaulted to Turkish when I started it for the first time just now.

The Steam Winter Sale is now live
22 Dec 2017 at 12:33 pm UTC

Quoting: EhvisYou can do that through the SteamDB sales page.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong but it's not filtering out games I already have on the sales page, ps thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I'd not seen that page before. :D

The Steam Winter Sale is now live
22 Dec 2017 at 8:44 am UTC

I bought my Steam Link during the last sale, I've been using it every day since it arrived & it works really well over my wifi network. :D

Looking at the sales pages on Steam I need a filter for all the stuff I already own.

Gory FPS 'Apocryph' now has a Linux test build to try, pretty damn good
21 Dec 2017 at 1:11 pm UTC Likes: 2

Part of my comment on Steam is "This is HEXEN REBORN" I will be buying this one as soon as I can, it looks AMAZING!

The 'Linux Steam Integration' project from Solus has an updated release with Snap package support
20 Dec 2017 at 3:38 pm UTC

Quoting: BrisseThere are good reasons for sandboxing Steam. At one point it had a bug which caused Steam to do 'rm -rf ~/' which caused some peoples entire home folders to be removed. It's proprietary software, so can you really trust that it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to? Also, there's the good old issue with the ever changing ABI/API on GNU/Linux. Flatpak and Snaps can provide the necessary runtime in a controlled fashion separate from the rest of your system which should ensure better reliability for Steam and games installed through Steam, while also making sure Steam or games cannot mess up your system.
I'd forgotten about that little bug, of course installing steam & the games on it's own partition or drive would help a great deal too.

Bridge Constructor Portal released with same-day Linux support, some thoughts
20 Dec 2017 at 3:35 pm UTC

I'm about to attempt level 10 so your design has given me some interesting pointers on what not to do. ;)