Should be interesting to see how this goes.

Looking forward to updating my ThinkPad laptop to the release rather than the beta, although I've actually had very few problems with the beta. Hopefully, the enterprise partnership will bring more advances with WSL as a side effect.

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I love GOG but this is another slap in the face as far as I see it. CDProjekt is an amazing company but the lack of support for Linux in any form (other than some games supporting it on the shop) makes me not even bother if the same title is on Steam. They have promised Linux support for way to long and basically backpeddle or go silent every chance they get.

It's unfortunate that they seem to lack the drive for Linux that Steam has shown as I think overall GOG Galaxy would be much more liked on Linux than it is even on Windows.

The whole DRM-Free advertising and using OSS goes a lot further with "OSS" supporters imo.

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Liam, I don't think you "jumped the gun" the way it was written would lead anyone to the same conclusion... Also, I agree with Rugaliz, even with the statement that was made by Epic in this post it still sounds "paused" as it were. Linux taking less of a priority imo is never good news.

Personally, I would prefer to see more studios making Linux a "high" priority. I remain optimistic even after all these years lol

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I think after the mess that's about the best resolution the dev could have made. It does open up the arguments for the whole "Digital" key situation, it seems that people are making more of this kind of mistake though, which to me is kind of worrying.

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Kind of sad to see things like this happen, but at least this time the code will be released and maybe someone will take it up or at least learn from the project.

Totally agree that this is the way it should be done.

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I wouldn't trust Ars as far as you could throw em, they are an "amusing" read at times, but nothing more than that. SteamOS is still a "beta" it's not a released product (the steam machines are basically the same thing and to sell 500,000 is great imo!). We are on "Valve Time" so this is more about the "long term" than the "short term" gains. It took them years to get to where Steam is now, It will probably take them even longer to push SteamOS and Steam Machines through to where they can actually compete with the PS4 and Xbox One, as was said they (MS/Sony) have 3>4 generations of system to have gained a market. People are looking at the first generation of Steam Machines, Has everyone got the VR headsets yet? nope, yet that is the "next" big thing, is everyone playing games at 4k on their Xboxs or PS4s? nope, both machines aren't even capable of pushing 1440p for the most part, hell they don't even do true FHD at 60fps most the time.

Wait until we see where thing's are going before you announce something as "dead". Linux was in most people's eyes (including the medias) "dead" for a long time, now it's on more devices than any other OS on the market. It took almost 30 years for that change to come about. Valve has had 3 years so far with SteamOS and pushing Linux, give them some time. The playstation has had 20 years, Xbox has had 15 years. Neither of those systems has managed to "take over" as it were and there are still plenty more "PCs" than there are either system.

Patience is a virtue, Valve as a company has more patience with anything they have released than any company in history, Steam has only been around for 12 years yet has changed the face of "gaming" in so many ways already. Digital Distribution (for games atleast) wasn't really a thing before Steam. Now it's everywhere.

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The link is broken for the SteamOS download due to it being moved to http://repo.steampowered.com/download/ [External Link] I think the site admins are just a little behind on the Steam site.

If anyone knows about Valve they should also know about "Valve Time", they don't rush anything they do and they build a great "platform".

"Steam" is over a decade old but people seem to forget in the early days Steam was nothing more than a place to get the "Valve" games. There was no real "store" or anything early on.

People just need to have some patience, if you're that stuck up on Gaming you're not solely using Linux for everything at the moment. There is nothing wrong with using other platforms to do what you need while you wait for something better.

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It's "anonymous hardware details", Steam does the same thing each month. It's a little off that they do it without the user knowing but meh.

I think it will stir another pot for a lot of people and the FUD will start flying again about the whole "Privacy" stuff.

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PhysX is basically a multi-threaded physics simulation engine that allows PPU or Cuda (Cuda is much more used now than a seperate PPU like the 3dfx days)to handle physics calculations. In basic terms it makes the GPU handle the Physics calculations so it doesn't waste CPU time.

It's not really noticeable to an end user, it just allows for smoother physics handling with it all being done by the GPU.

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