Quoting: kalinThere is no point in such news/drama. Linux user base is insignificant enough to no one give a shit if our numbers drop

I would argue against that. I care, as I'm sure the vast majority of Linux gamers care about how well we're doing. Why wouldn't we care?

Some places end up talking about the numbers as if they're some kind of absolute, to show Linux use falling. An example of this is PC World [External Link], I spoke to the editor of that article telling them to look a bit deeper, so they did [External Link]. It's a problem when people just take the number at face value, without looking into any of the reasons behind it, or even realizing that it's a ratio and not actually showing the number of Linux users falling (as explained in my article here). If people see large sites claiming things like that, they believe it and parrot it and so it spreads that Linux gaming is falling (when we don't know that).

I believe it's important to be clear about the situation and explain the reasons behind such changes, whether it's a positive or negative outlook.

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Quoting: oldgarolmaooo...good time to move away from NVIDIA!

Well, no. Let's not pretend Mesa is perfect. All software has bugs and regressions.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkI would much prefer to have them say "we found a bug & fixed it" rather than "we found a bug & we'll fix it some time in the next month or so", fix it then tell us it about it.

How exactly would it be better if they kept us in the dark? On the contrary, I'd much prefer it if they had a public bug tracker.

Not only that, but I don't think people realize just how much work is involved in putting out a new release. You can't just click compile it and send it out, it has to go through tons of testing. We're talking a GPU driver here for tons years of generations of chips.

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Quoting: LiamThey also added Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection today, but it doesn't have a Linux download

I am pretty sure the game runs flawlessly on Linux with Wine [External Link]. So go for it, if you're a fan!

Here's why we didn't offer a Wine wrapper ourselves:

• such wrappers take a huge chunk of our QA & fixing time since we need to be sure they are playable & don't introduce bugs at any point in-game


• they offer a less-than-perfect user experience, since user needs to install loads of 32 bit dependencies and there's no going around that


• they meet, sadly, with poor reception, aka "meh, I could easily just run it with Wine myself"

This could be of course re-evaluated, if there was a huge demand for Wine-wrapped titles.

I think this attitude will change over time, especially for older titles as Wine matures. Personally, I would be happy with a wine-port if it was sufficiently old enough and worked so I can't tell the difference.

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Quoting: ZlopezBTW: I never heard about the TV serie.

Completely off topic now, but watch it. It's a fantastic series, with each episode being a completely different story.

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Played it on stream tonight, as it replaced ATOM RPG, which I wasn't feeling up for reading all the dialogue (I have a cold, ergh).

It was fantastic.

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Note: Klei literally just sent me a key. Livestreams, VODs and so on to come.

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I screwed around a bit and made a video, because I love it:
View video on youtube.com

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I might have spent too long in this game already...my drone can now cut engines when it reaches a wall in front of it and use a side thruster to move around...by itself.

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Quoting: Xpander56588 Linux users Online in steam
21861 Linux users in Game

thats if the 0.32% from the Hardware Survey is correct

I don't think the numbers as they are right now are to be trusted, considering the huge drop since PUBG/China growth, meaning the numbers are pretty skewed right now in favour of Windows.

It's usually reasonably correct, but now not so much due to this.

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