Mesa 17 is another huge upgrade for me :)

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Quoting: liamdaweValve used to manually add-in new games that added Linux support later, but they stopped doing that.

What they (very obviously) should do, is keeping separate release dates for every platform. I can not understand why they do not do that...

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but unfortunately this shows new games, and filters Linux support. There is no known way to show new games on Linux. For a example Civ6 is not new game but is new on Linux. So no good automated tool. Best way so far to see important games new on linux is seeing articles on gamingonlinux.com...

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will be playable from linux terminal? If not, I am loosing a lot of interest because that would be awesome!

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Quoting: armageddon51While I have a vague idea of what MESA is, how do I install this ? I use Linux Mint cinnamon 18.1 and their nouveau driver with my old ATI card (HD5550). Can I install this MESA thing instead ? Can someone help me with that ? Tx

you have ATI so you are not using "nouveau".

A simple command to give your system info is

inxi -F

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Quoting: AimelaI'm curious, how was gaming in Linux before 2013? I only became aware that Linux was anything more than a CLI OS(as in, completely lacking any GUI elements) in the second half of 2013 and installed Ubuntu for the first time in October of that year, after Steam had officially started supporting linux.

for me it was mainly like this: http://www.playdeb.net/updates/ubuntu/15.10/?page=1 [External Link]

note that this includes dosbox and scummvm.

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Quoting: GuestI don't know if it was already discussed or brought up before, but how does Steam take into account Steam users / accounts who dual-boots with Windows and Linux? Do they count it as Windows user?

I think Valve should have a separate statistics for Windows users who also dual-boots with Linux. There are probably Linux gamers who use Windows for games only available on Windows.

If you dual boot, Valve sees that you have two different computers (one windows and one linux). If you dual boot two linux distros, also sees that you have two different computers. I do not know how it weights people who use multiple computers but in principle it is not different to have two computers than to have dual boot.

If you use wine, that is also a different computer that counts as windows but provided by wine, not microsoft.

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Something other about how fast is steam growing these years that needs to be said.

Steam has now more linux games than it had windows games in 2013.

I believe that the "steam growth problem" that linux has is about how fast steam is growing now in Asia and apparently in Asia there are relatively less linux gamers.

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OGL4 has everything DX11 has so it is possible they do have a case if supporting it is not trivial. Mac is stuck on OGL4.1 so probably huge problems on Mac so doing it would be only for Linux and completely meaningless on the long run since they can just wait for Vulkan. So waiting for Vulkan although not as mandatory as they make it sound, makes a lot of sense.

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They are removing OGL2. I do not think that this affects anyone. It is good because it reduces their maintenance. But I hope they will not remove OGL3 soon because that will affect some people.

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