The problem I have is something else... In BPM, when I try to read the description of a game via store, I can't scroll into the pop up window... Did I broke something, is it a long standing problem that I just noticed or is it new since last controller update?

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Quoting: Halifax

Quoting: tony1abLiam, I support everyone of your words.
I ditched Steamos one year ago for the exact same reasons, and after suffering the same error.

I cannot work on a system who doesn`t offer good support for desktop operations, limit the experience only to games and crash from time to time. I have to use my pc.

The only reason is: games goes a little better here. And what? That's not enought to use a pc. I still can play good on ubuntu.

What doesn't work on the desktop. Tell me.

Ubuntu is great overall, I love it too. BUT...

Unity sucks donkey balls. There's no polite way to say it. It's the worst Start Menu I've ever seen in a Linux distro, what were they thinking? I get you as a fan boy can just accept mediocre/poor decisions and feel it's ok, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact any rational person understands it's dogshit and they need another distro.

A'ight, if you have a thin skin, I'm just kidding ;) Ubuntu's fine and has done a lot for Linux adoption too. I personally don't like vanilla Ubuntu anymore (because the UI is dogshit) but others are more forgiving of Canonical's missteps here. Fair enough! I'm not saying I hate Canonical, just that they're unqualified obviously to ever muck around with UI's.

You totally have te right to hate Unity but this is an opinion that I don't personally share.

I never understood why Unity got so much hate aside from being the "UI that wasn't needed"... I admit that I had to adjust but overall I got used to it and after a couple of weeks, I began to love it. For my part, it's the simplest UI you can get. Everything is a click away or 2 at max. No need to search in submenus or complicated control panels, the bugs have all been taken care of and the performances are good... I don't get it.

I respectfully ask what is so terrible in Unity? I'm seriously curious to know because, for my part, it meets all my needs and I got tired of searching through all those "Windows UI look alike".

Hey, but that's just me, I might be satisfying myself with mediocrity. ;)

This said, for SteamOS, here is what I think:
The basic development as been done to offer a target and something tangible to game devellopers (Steam Machines). What is required for Phase 2 is to wait for Vulkan to get a foothold in the industry (game engines) and wait for AMD to join the fray with solid driver support. With Vulkan, ports will be much easier to bring to Linux, and with Zen AMD-APU (if they perform as great as they pretend), the price for the entry level Steam Machines will drop substancially.

But that is just my gut feeling and is highly speculative. Still it would make some sense when we consider that Valve is always playing in the long term (Valve time).

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I went trough the exact same bad experiences with SteamOS. I really like it but you can't make your userbase wait for you to fix things in Valve times...

I switched back to Ubuntu 16.04 but since I wanted the SteamOS experience I built "my Steambuntu" with this tutorial:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=388020830 [External Link]

1- Start installing your favored Ubuntu based distro;

2- Create an admin account named "desktop" and another one named "steam";

3- Add the repository for SteamOS Compositor, SteamOS Modeswitch Inhibitor and SteamOS Plymouth theme found in the comments (who is that guy?! Lol!);

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mdeslaur/steamos
sudo apt-get update

4- Follow the tutorial to install what is required;

sudo apt-get install steamos-compositor
sudo apt-get install steamos-modeswitch-inhibitor

5- Install SteamOS plymouth theme;

sudo apt-get install plymouth-themes-steamos

6- Switch the desktop session for the steam account to SteamOS and activate autologin (no password) for this account.

Sit back and enjoy!

You won't even notice that it's Ubuntu running in the background and look what happens if you switch to the desktop via BPM. All that is missing is the shortcut to go back to Steam.

You might have to activate a no password login to your desktop account to make it work... I don't know because I created another account for admin and made desktop a standard "no-password" user.

Just tell me if I forgot something, I did it in a hurry...

Edit: I must admit that I wrote it for those of you who have good knowledge of Linux basics... Lots of things you have to guess. These are general guidelines.

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From what I read, on the Feral Facebook page, Grid Autosports, Batman Arkham Knight (that was droped for reasons out of Feral's control) and Company of Heroes are all coming from the requestinator.

There is hope for Deus Ex... :)

Depth Charge would be a good match for the whole Bioshock Remastered edition that's coming September 13.

https://blog.2k.com/news/bioshock-the-collection-announcement [External Link]

That would be nice too!

Edit: Added the link

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SteamDB just got updated with "64bit launch config only". Anyone to confirm that it now works?

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Lots of action in the Linux SteamDB entry. The Linux depots are getting updated nearly hourly.
I don't know what to make of this, but I think it looks good.

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Quoting: natewardawg

Quoting: Comandante oardoI prefer an inhouse port... what engine use this game?

If I remember correctly it's actually a custom engine they developed for this and future Deus Ex games.

edit: It's called the Dawn engine

You are right, it's the Dawn engine which is based on Glacier II. :)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: liamdaweOh I know what you're saying and I understand it. Just don't read into it too much, like I said Feral reply like that to port requests on FB quite often for lots of different games.

Can you recall what other titles they've done the same with, using this "requestinator [External Link]" of theirs? It's not that I doubt you - I imagine I've seen it too, but can't recall any actual titles.

I don't have any to hand and don't fancy trawling months of Facebook, as if I did I can tell you now I would have a lot more posts here on GOL for Feral, but I don't consider Feral telling people they are taking port request feedback as news. Of course they are.

We may just be overhyped. :)

This said, you know on what engine Deus Ex is based? Same as Tomb Raider? Vulkan title?

Edit: Got my answer. Glacier Engine II, same as Hitman... Hitman is coming to Linux, by Feral, am I wrong? ;)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: MohandevirJust found this that might confirm the whole story:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Feral-Interactive-Tells-Linux-Users-to-Request-Deus-Ex-Mankind-Divided-Port-478422.shtml [External Link]

So it might just be logical to get a Linux port from Feral. That would be awesome!!!

Depth Charge?

Honestly, I'm not surprised Softpedia wrote about that. Feral says such things about ports all the time in reply to requests on Facebook. Softpedia just wanted a nice headline, don't read into it too much.

Not pretending this to be a confirmation, it's just that it would make sense to see a Feral Port.

Oh I know what you're saying and I understand it. Just don't read into it too much, like I said Feral reply like that to port requests on FB quite often for lots of different games.

I understand... Now a question I have no clue what is the answer: What is the ratio of done ports when Feral launch the "requestinator campaign" or equivalent?

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: MohandevirJust found this that might confirm the whole story:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Feral-Interactive-Tells-Linux-Users-to-Request-Deus-Ex-Mankind-Divided-Port-478422.shtml [External Link]

So it might just be logical to get a Linux port from Feral. That would be awesome!!!

Depth Charge?

Honestly, I'm not surprised Softpedia wrote about that. Feral says such things about ports all the time in reply to requests on Facebook. Softpedia just wanted a nice headline, don't read into it too much.

Not pretending this to be a confirmation, it's just that it would make sense to see a Feral Port.

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