Quoting: N30NAnd there's more goodness to coming in for The Mystery Mayhem [External Link]. ;)

That was already mentioned ;)

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Quoting: abelthorneIn the drivers tool that's supplied with Ubuntu, they have *-updates versions of the graphic drivers. Isn't it supposed to be a way to have up-to-date drivers or have I been mistaken for years?

That whole thing is currently a mess, and needs better descriptions.

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Well, being a pain is a point of view, and for a less advanced user adding a PPA can be a real nuisance. Having an option to just check to get the latest = bliss.

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Quoting: wvstolzingPlease tell me that the garden gnomes are meant to hint at snappier performance on the GNOME desktop, when its compositor makes use of Vulkan?

(And no longer heats up one's GPU, doing nothing but showing a bunch of windows, as high as an hour-long session of SoM, or Metro?)

It has nothing to do with it, this is an Android demo.

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Quoting: ProfessorKaos64If I purchase this now, will it still count as a Linux sale since its being done internally? I know you have to opt into the beta, right?

Since they have a Linux branch, I imagine so, otherwise Steam is utterly flawed at tracking and we simply can't win.

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Also: https://steamdb.info/faq/#can-i-use-auto-refreshing-plugins-or-automatically-scrape-crawl-steamdb [External Link]

They would ban our server if we attempted to scrape them, and I don't feel like asking them to make an API just for us. As I can already guess the answer.

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Quoting: tuubiAs minj said, you could scrape the steamdb listings for Steam sales in euros [External Link], dollars [External Link] and pounds [External Link]. A bit more fiddly to parse than a single clean feed but certainly doable. No request caps, but also no guarantees for "api" stability.

It's a question of if it's okay to do that or not, we don't want to just scrape their page if they don't like it.

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The general rule is that if they advertise Linux as a platform, it counts for Linux. Bundle Stars emailed me to confirm this, if you buy on Bundle Stars and it doesn't list Linux, it won't count for it.

The sales page is just for people who want cheap games and to display sales, it's up to people to decide how to use it.

We will also do sales articles, and only highlight ones that really will count for Linux in it.

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Quoting: minjhttp://isthereanydeal.com imports steam deals automatically so there must be some kind of system

Steamdb also has price tracking. E. g. https://steamdb.info/app/316080/ [External Link] is on sale atm

Sales list: https://steamdb.info/sales/ [External Link]

Levi can probably shed light on this, as he was looking into it. Steam in the last few months put a cap on the amount of requests you can do to the API that is capable of getting game info, and it made it very difficulty.

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Looks like it will be on video: https://twitter.com/piers_daniell/status/630196144883142656 [External Link]

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