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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Quoting: sigzSteam must allow developers to separate platform purchases, like you buy the game full price for one platform (any one), and then you buy a low price DLC to get binaries for another platform. Why ? We all have many old games bought for windows that were lately ported to linux, and we got those ports for free, developers will not get some reward for that, porting can be a painful work. Separating platform revenues will help developers to be conforted to make ports.

I can't express my feeling towards this without getting banned from the internet. If anyone has to buy again games to play them on linux he will just not do it and that would completely destroy linux as a gaming platform. Now I can tell my friend at least to try linux. This would not be possible if linux games are tied to another platform.

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I like Tux head as a linux logo. What is wrong with that? It is still in use on steamdb, see https://steamdb.info/app/474750/ [External Link]

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there was one game that was supporting mac but without steamplay. I wonder what happened to that one. if everything that supports many platform, does support "steamplay" now, Then steamplay has no purpose and it was well removed.

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Quoting: Mountain ManA few things come to mind:

1) Isn't this essentially what Steam already does with its built-in runtime library?
2) Isn't it up to the developer and not Valve how they wish to distribute their software? If a developer wants to use Flatpak instead of the Steam runtime library then why can't they? For that matter, developers have always been able to bundle individual libraries if they wished, so what advantage does Flatpak really offer?
3) I find it ironic that Flatpak is supposed to make it easier to install software on multiple Linux distros... but they only officially support Fedora and Ubuntu.

ok, instead of googling random internet opinions lets do the Archwiki chalenge

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapd [External Link]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flatpak [External Link]

my conclusion from the above:

snap: PLEASE NO!!!

flatpack: sounds good and better than the situation we have now.

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A comparison to other solutions

(biased towards appimage obviously, but still a usefull link)

https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-projects [External Link]

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System Requirements
SteamOS + Linux
OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Newer

That is funny :huh:

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Quoting: Eric1212Really good news, but package as rpm or deb would be highly needed for general public that would like to make animatons (Artist, not technicians...) !

If the code is open source it is not their job to maintain packages. It is job of the comunities of every corresponding package system.

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Quoting: skinnyraf2016 is the year of Linux gaming backlog for me :D

I think it was 2014 for me.

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