$ != €... nope, gonna wait. My money isn't worth less, especially since Valve doesn't pay tax in my country.

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If it downloads 3.6 gigs one more time, I'm going to cry. My connection isn't as fast as I could wish :(

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I must admit: I am an absolute nerd. I was for many years and long before it was "cool" to be (a little) nerdy. Well, I'm not the average geek, not even the average software engineering student, but I know about every nerdy universe out there (apart from Star Trek, well I know stuff about Star Trek, I just never fell into it)

I know a lot about Doctor Who, Hyboria, Middle Earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Stargate, Westeros ... and so many more. But I never had the time to fall in love with Shadowrun.

I should, though. I got the first one in a humble bundle and the second was a christmas gift. Argh... if only the day had more than 24 hours!

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Quoting: maodzedunWell, I'll probably get a lot of hate for saying this but he has some valid points though it is obviously mostly a rage rant. For one installing Linux is not the same as developing for it. That is like saying installing Wordpress is the same as writing scripts for it. One is substantially more complicated than the other :D.

Yes, and that is (not) installing it, right? So if you can't manage the easier task, have a phd degree in software engineering and... well I stop there, because I don't know much about foreign universities and after that guy I really don't want to learn about them.

Quoting: maodzedunSecond, as far as gaming goes Windows is in fact the superior platform. I'm not going into why there are way better drivers and general hardware and software support, but the fact is that it is much easier for a developer to make Windows games. DirectX provides better performance than OpenGL, overall. Not much but it does.

What performance are we talking about? End-User-Gaming performance? No! http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/ [External Link]

This depends on the engine and your skills as a programmer. OpenGL often is faster and more advanced than Direct3D.

And here comes the "problem": DirectX is more than a Graphics-API. It also handles sound and many more tasks, that you need to do on your own or rely on another API/framework on Linux. (Like OpenAL etc.)

That's where and why the developer-performance under windows often is better used, because you basically use a "out of the box"-integrated system for many more tasks than only graphics.

Quoting: maodzedunAnd finally, it is completely understandable that a single developer or a small development company would drop Linux. If they're having problems getting the results they want with reasonable amount of time and effort, it is only natural to drop the 1% of the gaming market. Time IS money.

Absolutely, but a rant like that is... strange. I mean, he has a phd in computer science but is unable to install (!) Ubuntu? I mean, come on, where did he win his degree?

Also the level of his rant and the general attitude are... well (yes it's ironic if I say that, asking about his degree and where he won it just a sentence ago)

Quoting: maodzedunI get why most people got somewhat offended by this dev's comments but you can't deny there is some truth to them. Think about it. Linus Torvalds himself admits that he created the kernel to be the basis of a desktop OS, yet it currently holds about 70% of mobile, 70%+ of server and anywhere from 1.5 to say 4% of the desktop market. As much as I want to believe that it is "the man" pushing back the amazing open source OS, logic dictates that there has been something inherently wrong with Linux over the years, that continues to draw developers away.

There is a multitude of reasons for this. For example:
1) Many companies use(d) Windows, hence you had to develop for and probably on Windows, because of some more or less vendor-lock-in technologies and quirks of windows.
2) For computer games DirectX was a nice package that didn't only provide you with a graphics library like OpenGL does, but also with a couple of other things that enabled you to be more productive.
3) Because of the above and some more reasons Linux didn't have good graphics drivers until a couple of years back, so although OpenGL was great, it couldn't really compete.

Another good read, with sources: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX [External Link]

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First of: Victor Frankenstein was depicted as a genius, a man who would not fall behind others and kept on dreaming. He used... "unconvential" methods to achieve his goals, but then again, he was the genius who defied god and the first living being to create artificial, highly intelligent and feeling life.

So I assume the "superior" developer actually meant Frankenstein´s Monster. Well, the monster was stronger, faster and more determined than all other humans.

Apart from that: Not every random idiot should get a platform.

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Great, because although people say it works good in wine, it doesn't for me. The whole system freezes if I try to run Banished in Wine. And since I don't have a Windows partition anymore, I simply can't play the game.

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The DMCA take down notices are being produced automatically, are they not?

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I really liked the first one a few years back, will have to check what (apart from Linux-Support) is new in this second iteration.

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Looked like it back around April/May. Not gonna hold my breath.

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I'm soooo glad I didn't support them in the past. I wanted to, because I'm a naive, optimistic person when it comes to ports and promises. But alas, this time I knew better.

Not a single cent you will see from me, until this is native and running well!

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