Quoting: oldrocker99I started in 2008, with Ubuntu 8.04, and, at the time, there was exactly one freely-available commercial game that had a Linux client available: Neverwinter Nights. I happily played it (and still occasionally fire it up, and it still works; not bad for a 15 year old port) until the Humble Bundles came up. I dual-booted from 2012 to 2014; when X-COM came out for Linux, I deep-sixed my Windows partition and haven't looked back.

I have seen gaming on Linux grow from Steam's initial offering of mostly Humble Bundle games to the wealth of titles we have now. I used to buy just about every Linux game that came out, and now I'm pretty damn picky.

We are in a Golden Age of gaming for Linux. :woot:

Let us hope it turns out to be only a Silver Age, with the Golden Age of World Domination yet to come! ;)

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Quoting: etonbearsFor example, a major reason for Linux game availability is the rise of high quality game engines, many of which have added Linux support. As these engines generally have many Indie developer customers, I'm guessing that as long as the Indies make enough from their Linux sales, then it will be worth the engine companies continuing to support Linux. But I don't know of any concrete figures that would indicate that continued Linux support is worth it for these companies.

Well, the big engines probably make money hand over fist. Maintaining and improving Linux support I would expect is cheaper than adding it was in the first place. And the thing about Linux is, even if there were no non-techie Linux desktops at all, Linux dominates in most other spaces and shows no sign of that diminishing. Between that and the attractiveness of the FOSS idea, Linux has a strong allegiance among programmers. Once they've jumped the hurdle of putting in support in the first place, even if keeping it isn't worth it financially it's probably worth it just for morale within the company and goodwill outside.
There's also the checklist effect. If you offer a product it's kind of hard to measure which features are making you money, which make the difference in people's choices to use your product or a competitor's. But if that kind of product has a checklist of features that most of them support, I suspect most companies would be leery of changing their product so it gets a red X beside something on the list while their competitors still have a green check mark.

So I suspect chances are pretty good Linux support in the engines will stay for a while.

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Quoting: GuestMark my words, someday, when Vulkan is at full speed (the true equalizer), and a big AAA game comes out for Linux/Mac/Windows, someone will do a comparative benchmark and realize how powerful a Linux Kernel is when its no longer staked to the ground with outdated APIs, hodge-podge drivers or a shoddy game port.

I'm certainly waiting to see that.

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Quoting: tmtvl

Fixed Steam not obeying SIGTERM, Steam will now gracefully exit when logging out of a session

By all that is FOSS, finally. That has been such a pain in my side for the past 5 or 6 months.

Is this the thing that makes it so if I don't absolutely totally and definitively shut down Steam (not just close it), then when I turn off my laptop it takes like five minutes to get shut down? If so I'm definitely happy they fixed it.

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So if these guys went out of business, that'd be Karmageddon.

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Quoting: iiari@Teodosio: As a casual gamer looking to get into my first space strategy title who has never played IG2, I'm just curious what aspects of the gameplay you consider outdated? And which modern Linux space game you'd recommend instead? Thanks!

Personally, I don't think "outdated" matters much in space strategy games. Really, you should start with Master of Orion II, so that like the rest of us when you start playing more modern games you can complain that none of them is really as good as MOO II despite the glitzy graphics.
And hey, MOO II is available on Linux, at both Steam and GOG. For cheap.

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro

Quoting: Purple Library GuySince when do communists rant about SJWs?

Marxist academics do rant about political correctness quite a lot at it. Zizek is a prime example, but obviously it's more from the "bourgeois white folk are changing language to feel less guilty about their own racism and doing so only worsens the problem, or at best sweeps it under the rug" angle rather than whatever this Dawid fellow is on about.

Hm, yes, point. I tend to feel a bit more benevolent about the whole thing. It's like, political correctness is the best non-radicals can do since the causes of the problems aren't accessible to them. Sort of like doctors without antibiotics trying to deal with a bacterial disease by treating symptoms, bringing down fever or what have you, and doing so all the more aggressively because they can't touch the underlying infection. If you can't deal with the causes, the symptoms are going to keep springing up, but what else can you do? Well, become a radical, but for a lot of people that just isn't something they've got a path to, so they're doing the best they can with the mental toolkit available.

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Fair enough. I'm not quite sure where you get from "Everyone getting to make decisions" to "homogeneous mass of drones", but it's cool.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI see you're triggered about this.

Just like Segata Sanshiro was triggered by SJWs and SJWs are triggered by Stellaris.
But you only say that to me.

Are you telling me you still didn't get Sanshiro's joke? Do yourself a favour and go back and read his post again. Then go read the article to realize that it was not "SJWs" that got all delicate about the accepting-refugees option, but the other end of the spectrum--ironically, it was the sort of people who supposedly hate the idea of political correctness who wanted to police the game's language. You're getting the wrong end of the stick from going off half-cocked and assuming the facts to be the opposite of what they are and what people say to be meaning almost the opposite of what they mean.

While you're at it, if you're a communist consider not talking like some kind of alt-right type. SJWs? Really? Since when do communists rant about SJWs?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Segata SanshiroSince apparently all the content of Paradox's games reflect their views, then they must also be in favour of religious genocide, cultural assimilation, genocide of indigenous peoples, be followers of every major religion that has existed since the year ~800 concurrently, be fans of both Stalin and Hitler, colonialism, free trade, protectionism, etc.

Political correctness gone mad, something has to be done about these Marxist loons.

This motherfuckers ain't marxists.
I'm communist and i can't understand this level of stupidness about the SJWs.

Btw, it's funny how 2 or 3 comments from stupid people can make an ideology to be "loon", they don't represent us. This SJWs are just Soros puppets.

I see you're triggered about this.

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