Quoting: maodzedunObviously it always boils down to personal preference, but I cannot imagine how gaming can be your hobby and you'd lock yourself out of 90% of the great titles that come out for the PC. Hopefully in the coming years more of you guys will get a taste of that AAA goodness that us dual booters get to experience.

PS I know I always seem to bash on Linux in my comments but it's actually tough love and this place sure needs a devil's advocate ;)

What has gaming being someone's hobby got to do with AAA games? By that thought pattern, why doesn't every "gamer" own all consoles? I mean you can't seriously tell someone how to do their hobby ;), it's a hobby, it's what people like to do, and not what they should do by other people's thoughts.

Most AAA games coming out are terrible.

Personally, I have a PS3 and PS4 and every time I pick up one of these AAA games I am shocked at just how many bugs they have, and most of them are re-hashes of a previous game. Yes, there are also a few really good AAA games, but really not as much as people think.

I considering web programming my hobby, but I don't go out and learn every possible web language around. It's about what you like to do, and a lot of us love the games we have already.

Oh we have plenty of negative nancy's here as well, you're not the only one.

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Quoting: toniWow, nimoy's death make them give the api that strange name in his honor?

I directly address this in the article if you read it:

Quoting: meIt would have been nice if it was a tribute, but it was filed before the reports of his passing.

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Quoting: crunchpaste

Quoting: maodzedunNot to be a Negative Nancy but how is the Borderlands 2 port good, if it only works properly with Nvidia hardware.

Works quite decently on an Intel HD4400. Medium settings 30+ FPS.. I think that's good enough for a cheap laptop.

I've also seen reports of 30FPS+ on Intel HD 3000, so Intel works pretty well for Borderlands 2.

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@mao, speak to AMD about their drivers. Every developer says the same thing, the closed source AMD drivers are trash for OpenGL support and performance.

Look at every Phoronix benchmark. It is not Aspyr's fault.

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Quoting: MaelraneStill waiting for Contagion :/

I've tried contacting them multiple times, falling on deaf ears right now it seems.

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Seems there's a 2.3GB patch, and no patch notes, really helpful :/

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Sadly guys, I'm going to re-do my final verdict to: Buy it if you don't mind constant crash to desktop bugs.

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Quoting: xavi2

Quoting: pb"We don’t really have anything in the class of Dungeon Keeper on Linux"

What about this? http://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/ [External Link]
Just asking, I didn't try it personally.

What about KeeperRL?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/329970 [External Link]

They are really nothing like each other.

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Well, not counting unfinished games then :P

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Quoting: brokeassben

Quoting: abelthorneWell, Steam Big Picture has been out way before SteamOS so I'm not sure the games in the screenshots are really chosen in relation to the OS.

But I don't see which screenshot you're talking about with Payday 2 so I'm not really sure what to think. ;)

EDIT: oh, never mind, Privacy Badger was hiding the picture in the post, now I see it. Anyway, I'm not really much convinced as Overkill hasn't been very Linux-friendly. Would love to see Payday 2 on Linux, of course.

opera might be onto something. The icon in the dropdown menu next to "Games I Can Play" is for SteamOS.

Are you sure? It's also the same icon they use on Windows now, I saw my friend on his laptop just yesterday and the icon on his Windows 7 bar was exactly the same. Haven't actually checked into SteamOS to see for myself.

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