Quoting: toojaysI guess we are dependent on the fact that people are doing these ports for love, despite non-existent business cases.

That is often the case from my chats to a great many developers.

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Quoting: ErzfeindMaybe many Linux users just bought the game via Humble Store (like myself).

Honestly, I've never had a developer tell me Humble sales have been in any way noteworthy (most say it earns hardly anything). Still, good option to have though.

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Quoting: Guest

It's basically the same story as it always has been—increasing our market share somehow is the only thing that will help.

And you really think promoting playing Windows games via Proton works in that direction?

Increasing users is not a black and white "native or bust" approach.

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Quoting: LightsongThere is no way Arch can have such an audience. OpenSUSE for example also gets reported as Linux 4.x

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Quoting: NeverthelessFlatpak Steam on any distribution also turns up as "Linux 4.x".

I can validate, just had the Steam survey today and saw "Linux 4.x", although I'm on Fedora.
Maybe listing all these as Arch skews up the numbers a little, especially since how much Fedora devs are the ones pushing for Flatpak.

Given that new information, I have adjusted the way that's done. For Arch, Fedora and Gentoo, it's now verifying with the Kernel string too as Arch 99% of the time has arch in the Kernel version string and Fedora 99% of the time has ".fcxx." and Gentoo often does similar.

All other smaller distributions are being bundled into Other now too like Sabayon, SteamOS etc. It's a lot more accurate now, but never will be entirely due to Flatpak Steam. Not meant to be an exact science, but it's now accurate enough.

And yes, if you're reporting something as Platinum yet you've used tweaks - that's not Platinum.

Edit again: Added in CPU vendor info.

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Note: There's a new beta out [External Link] with "Fixed issue "Servers content unreachable" related to some IPv6 configurations"

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Quoting: iiariI'm generally not a side scrolling kind of guy, but this looks terrific.

Say what one will about AAA titles or lack thereof, but is it my imagination or, in the last several weeks of GOL coverage, does it appear like we're getting an avalanche of fun looking new or significantly updated games? If not for the Steam Wishlist, I'd have trouble keeping track of everything!

I've been slowly expanding my secret sauces of ways to find news games :p

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I have a few keys for people willing to test, PM me if you're actually available for testing.

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Testing it now the download is fixed and you know what, I think this is going to be great.

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Quoting: TheRiddickYes works well, it would still be nice to have a option to choose to install a Native linux game vs its windows proton counterpart.

True, but for now you can just force Steam Play in it before downloading.

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Quoting: bgh251f2I don't think it seems ridiculous, and looks like a lot of fun.

Poor choice of words and not explained enough I guess, made it clearer.

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