Quoting: rustybroomhandleWould not want to play a first person shooter with any type of game pad, but for games that require a pointer, like strategy games: perfect!

You are totally right but K&M is not really convenient for a "couch experience". This is why they came up with this controller. From what I've seen, it's going to be far better than a XBox controller, IMO.

This said, I would have gladly tried the Steam controller on games like The Witcher 2 and Trine 2. Sometimes in these games, the keyboard can be really difficult to handle.

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I might be wrong but I think that one of the trackpad goal is to mimick the aiming of the mouse:
In HL2 all you have to do is point in the direction where you want to go with the mouse and go forward with "w".

The trackpad is there to help you turnaround as fast as a mouse. Not as fast but better than an analog stick. This is what I noticed from the videos I've seen. It's much faster than behing limited to the maximum speed of the stick that gets you shot 2 or 3 times while doing a 180° turnaround.

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Personnally, to install the SteamOS session, I use this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thor27-gmail/steam-desktop && sudo apt-get update --quiet && sudo apt-get install steam-login --quiet

Found on the french Ubuntu support site:
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/steam

Check for #4.

It takes care of everything, even the updates.

EDIT: ATM, to use this command, you need to change the source to Saucy. The Thrusty repo has not been created yet but the developper supporting it told me he would try hard to do so in the next few days.

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At least, what is positive, it's the frequency of the game updates. It's the 3 one in about 2 weeks. We can hope for a playable game for all in a near future.

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i7-2600
16gb DDR3-1333Mhz
GTX-750 Ti with NVidia Driver version 340.24
Ubuntu 14.04 with Steam Desktop from Thor 27 repository (Adds a SteamOS icon in your login session selector)

I run the game at Ultra settings and it runs flawlessly. No lag, no crash except when I exit the game.

Have you tried lowering the texture cache size? In my case, it gave me a good performance boost before the last 2 upates. Not mentionning solving many game chrashes.

The other thing I found on The Witcher 2 Github is the fact that too many saved games makes it unstable.

Happy W2!

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Linux 3.10... My memory could fool me, but it's the Debian Kernel, isn't it?
Could'nt it be SteamOS?

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