My take on the Steamcontroller thing is that when it is well supported (either by the developer directly, such as the case for example "Neuro Voider" or by an awesome community config), than it beats all other controllers easily and sometimes even a mouse+keyboard combo. However many games are not well supported, and unless I want to spend a lot of time creating my own config (which I honestly didn't bother so far), I end up switching back to either my Xbox360 controller or the mouse+keyboard combo.

So overall I can see why people voted it as their favorite controller, but if you are on the edge and don't want to buy two controllers, nor are especially interested is playing games originally not meant for controller input at all, then I would rather go for a cheaper USB cable Xbox360 controller which works great under Linux.

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Pixel Dungeon is also open-source (and available on the F-Droid FOSS repository for Android). It even has spawned some interesting forks and ports. Here some github links:
https://github.com/watabou/pixel-dungeon [External Link]
https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon [External Link] (an improved fork)
https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon-gdx [External Link]

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Some of the mentioned specs also seems to be only strech-goals, which seems a bit sketchy.
Still overall a nice machine by the looks of it.

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Any idea on the price? It sounds very interesting, but I doubt I could justify paying more than 10€ or so for it.

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Hmm, while nice I do wonder if these kind of ports make back their money. I, like many others I believe already own those games (never managed to finish them under Windows, back when I was still dual-booting). So this is indeed a nice gift, but I don't really plan to buy them again as I am unlikely to invest much time in those games. Of course if the port was really easy, it might be worth it, who knows.

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Yeah, the lack of a proper open-source license has held this project back so much... it is really a shame. Almost like the Homeworld 1 source release, that also came with a stupid shared-source license :(

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Please don't make me regret having Kickstartered this *day one Linux release PLEASE*

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Trailer looks great, hmm but early access? Maybe I'll wait a bit. But lets hope for good Stream controller support :)

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This is a really good fighting game if you look past the aging graphics and other technical limitations. IMHO much better than Skull Girls and most other recent 2D fighting games.

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Could you please add KDE Neon as an option: https://neon.kde.org/ [External Link]

Or maybe have the Kubuntu option as both, since it is very close to that and somewhat a successor to it?

Maybe a funny question would be also if the computer came with Linux preinstalled (Steam boxes, Tuxedo etc.). Additional it could have the answer, "no, but everything works out of the box with no extra configuration" or so.

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