I use wine to run LackeyCCG. The previous month I ticked the I did use wine box because of this but this month I considered that it was more right to tick "no" because it is not a windows purchase for wine.

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about the open source thing, My personal answer is that I have priorities. Open standards are often way more important than Linux. Linux (as an open source kernel) is more important than open source drivers. Open source drivers are way more important than open source game engines. And open source game engine is more important than open source games. Although everything open source we should support, I do not see any point to fight against closed source games or game engines, and although we should be a bit more against closed source drivers, it is still less vital than other things.

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Quoting: Madeanaccounttocomment

Quoting: LiamSounds like Vulkan is genuinely close now, so I expect to see it in January.

Poor deluded Liam. My bets are late February at the earliest.

my bets are on middle march on gdc.

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This month I answered "yes" for wine. But it was only for LackeyCCG...

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I am mostly playing:
Race the Sun (where only touch three clouds achievement remains)

Currently also playing:
Grim Fandango

And recently played:
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (finished)

Less recently:
Anodyne (finished)
Broken Sword 5 (finished)
VVVVVV (finished, but not going to do hard achievements)
Don't Starve (really nice, want to play more)
Rogue Legacy (finished)
Papers Please
Shadowgate (I will continue later...)
Splice
Deponia: The complete journey (finished)
SteamWorld Dig (finished)
The Cave (finished, but do not remember if done all characters)
Journey of a Roach (finished)
BattleBlock Theater (really nice, want to play more)
Kingdom Rush (finished on normal)
Escape Goat 2 (finished)

and many more... (but even less recently)
Some games that I have and want to return to play more, or have not played yet...
CK2
EU4
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Civ5

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I actually do not care at all about dx11 on wine. I only use wine for legacy programms (especially LackeyCCG) and dx11 seems to me completely unrelevant and just hope for native support and for Vulkan.

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Quoting: RichieEBI hope FIFA might have Linux support one day.

"one day" vs "day one" lol

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My view is that valve is not interested in a "premature" success. SteamOS is already a success in its primary purpose, that is being a simple recognizable target OS for developers and giving the "console" experience of installing games with only one button and no need for additional software (also easy to operate from the couch but that is the big picture thing). At this point it does not need to be more than that.

So with SteamOS just being debian with big picture console experience the main focus of valve for the next years should and probably is, steam controller and vulkan.

Debian is upgrading about every two years. Jessie came out this year, next big release will be in 2017 probably. SteamOS seems will continue at a semi-rolling pace, little continuous upgrades and big releases every two years. So I expect valve will have the main focus in 2016 for steam controller and vulkan and at 2017 for the next big release of steamos and will start to really push steamos at the end of 2017. Until then they just want it to be low profile (neither a success or a noted failure) and keep the flow of good games towards linux.

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I was playing these days Anodyne (on linux of course) and I was wondering why there was no steamos icon.

Anodyne plays fine on me but I remember I had to follow instructions from the arch wiki.

I think it is a good idea to separate games that do not work out of the box for steamos but I would demand tux icon back.

As long as steamos does not have compontents that can not be used on other distributions, everything is fine and it is not real separation. Also I do support the idea of big picture but all games should be playable on desktop mode too as desktop is more suitable when you are not on couch and it would be a stupid inconvinience to force big picture.

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Developers should always try for open source drivers. That would give the best choice for best support. But if high performance is realistic possible only on closed source nvidia then that is what it is and it is better than nothing.

Our hope for high performance open competition on all (operating systems and hardware) platforms is Vulkan. So for high performance engines Vulkan should soon be the right choice. (only disadvantage is that Vulkan is not released yet unfortunately but will be very soon). Closed source drivers and system specific APIs are not open competition.

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