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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
The Wine Development Release 1.7.7 Is Now Available
23 Nov 2013 at 2:26 pm UTC

A lot of Mac related work going in recently, I guess a major developer uses a Mac now? heh

Pandora: First Contact Linux Gameplay Video & My Thoughts
20 Nov 2013 at 4:53 pm UTC

I suppose it would help if I noted that at the end - yes I would buy it :) that video was cut from a 35 minute play session and I'm pretty sure I was still quite early in the game.

Some Free Games For You This Saturday From Locomalito
18 Nov 2013 at 9:36 am UTC

True, why not shoot him a message and see what he says?

The Funding Crowd 23.1 (Nov 13th - Nov 17th)
18 Nov 2013 at 9:34 am UTC

Quoting: Quote from DrMcCoyWait, you've put those images on imgur? Why? Are you that desperate to decrease bandwidth? o_O
We don't currently have an in-article image uploader, it's part of my long todo list.

The Funding Crowd 23.1 (Nov 13th - Nov 17th)
17 Nov 2013 at 9:09 pm UTC

Oops I cleaned up the images, for imgur you need to click on the image to get the correct url :)

Great work!

Some Free Games For You This Saturday From Locomalito
17 Nov 2013 at 6:44 pm UTC

Some people like 100% ownership of the code they write which is fair enough.

Developers And The Dreaded Platform Listing Of "PC"
17 Nov 2013 at 5:58 pm UTC

Oh look I started a distro war by going slightly offtopic in my article, have people still not grown up in the community yet?

I will just leave this here, one of my favourite images of all time, BEHOLD!


It doesn't matter if I stated what I believe is the most popular distro, there isn't a single measure to determin it, it's just what I believe, I will try to not go so off-topic in my editorials in future.

Seriously though, distro wars have to stop, it's pathetic.

Developers And The Dreaded Platform Listing Of "PC"
17 Nov 2013 at 4:48 pm UTC

For me I feel it was needed, most newbies who hear of Linux will probably think of Ubuntu anyway. Every single person I have ever asked in "real life" has only heard of Ubuntu and I talk to people about Linux quite regularly.

Developers And The Dreaded Platform Listing Of "PC"
17 Nov 2013 at 4:38 pm UTC

Quoting: Quote from Hamish
Quoting: QuoteWe have Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and let's face it Ubuntu Linux mainly even though people of other distro's don't like to admit it and will probably jump down my throat for even stating it, but Ubuntu is the single most popular distro around, it is the only distro Steam officially supports for a reason. That's a whole 'nother argument altogether though so try not to focus on that too much.
I am sorry, but if you did not want people to jump down your throat why did you even bring it up? There is stating an on topic opinion in an editorial and then there is flame bait. I could go into a huge rant about the difference between a plurality and an actual majority, and how Ubuntu most definitely does not have an absolute majority and games the system through it's plurality status, but I will pay enough deference to the main point of the article to just leave this here.
I bring it up as it's my opinion, an editorial is an opinion piece remember. It's also coming off the fact that Ubuntu on the Steam survey has ~0.8% of users, Mint is the only one to come close with around ~0.1% which is also based on Ubuntu. Bearing in mind we are a gaming site a gaming survey is a good measure.

Show me hard facts to prove otherwise than Ubuntu being the most popular distro and I may believe it.

Pandora: First Contact A Spiritual Successor To Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Released
17 Nov 2013 at 11:17 am UTC

Quoting: Quote from AnonymousYou have to specifically choose linux when buying
I have just emailed them to ask why they have done this.

Very backwards compared to pretty much everyone else.