Added support for NVIDIA On-Demand.

Displays the currently active OpenGL renderer.

Will now prompt users to log out when switching GPUs.

Supports MATE, XFCE, Budgie and Cinnamon.

Refactored as an AppIndicator with GtkStatusMenu fallback.

Updates the icons with .svg.

That it's able to do switching on-demand is my big takeaway. As it is now I just keep my laptop on "Nvidia" and let it burn, blasting hair-dryer quality air into the room but rendering everything with vim and vigour. That it'll be available on other DEs beyond Mate is good news too (I'm thinking about switching back to XFCE 4.14 with 19.10). And .SVG icons, well, that ought to be a matter of international law.

I'm a bit perplexed by their claim that it'll prompt users to log out and display the current renderer since it does that already, or at least on my Ubutnu Mate install it does that. Doesn't it?

Refactored as an AppIndicator with GtkStatusMenu fallback.

Probably a welcome change, but honestly, I haven't a clue.

Switching on demand, though. That's some welcome goodness right there.

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I'm glad Valve is trying to improve the user experience, and I'm guessing that more than a little research went into what their users do and don't want from their Steam client.

Beyond being generally prettier---and therefore potentially slower---I don't see anything here that really ticks any of my personal boxes.

I'd like to see the same information available in my library as see in the little pop-up I get on the Store page: A picture, user rating, and the same user tags. I have just south of 400 games. I wish I could remember what even half of them were by name alone, but I can't. It would be so nice to have a little information on each one available on my Library page.

I'd like to have a decent sort and filter for my Library. I don't really feel there's a need for a "search" function for a list that's already alphabetized, but an ability to filter by a particular tag (side-scroller, RPG) or sort by "last played" or "purchase date" might be helpful.

While some of this could be done with the Library's "set category" feature, it's terribly inefficient. The category feature is great letting me personalize my library with custom groupings that Steam couldn't possibly foresee, but it's less than useless to for me to re-categorize all of my Open World RPG games if Steam's already done that. Just let me filter by tags and make use of the work that's already been done and is sitting in a data-base in Steam.

And for the love of humanity, I wish Steam would optimize their desktop client for viewing on 1080p screens. (Big Picture's great, but not when someone is viewing it with the kind of decades-old antique broadband shat out by American capitalism. Then it's worse than slow, it's torturous.) I shouldn't have to squint to see what my games are.

Oh my, I have gone on, haven't I. Sorry about that everyone. Still, I feel a bit better for it. I think I'll copy paste this into some Steam suggestion box somewhere.

And hey, that Steam Diving Bell is great!

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: toorWell... I'll pass. After waiting for years, still no gog galaxy. My money will go to stores where they support linux more seriously

This permanent childish whining is really disgusting. Then just shut up and stay with Steam if you don't care about freedom.
We really need a dislike button....

We already have /r/linux_gaming [External Link] for that. Here we use our words.

(Thanks for keeping things positive, Liam)
:)

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I'll only add that in addition to doing side quests, explore. There are a lot of nifty hidy-holes and other bits that you'll miss if you just do missions, side-quests and challenges.

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Quoting: NanobangI'd be surprised if this game got onto any OS. Ever.

It is being sold on Steam, so...

Well damn, so it is. Ok I've edited myself to reflect this. Thanks for the info :)

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The little guy even runs like a badass! I'll need to see more before I commit to a purchase, but it's wishlisted all the same.

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Quoting: LiamIt's a case of a small two-person team biting off much more than they can chew. It goes over a bunch of issues they faced, along with funds getting low and a publisher leaving them "due to the delays", along with "personal and health issues" and so on. One of the developers is going to be moving onto other things too, so there will only be one person left to deal with everything.

I'm surprised this game got onto any OS. Ever.

Quoting: Liam... I advised them to be open and honest and make a proper announcement on it.

Thank you. At some point this will be developer common knowledge, though we might have to gag all the lawyers and marketing people in the business to make it happen.

Every time I read the title of a new game followed by the word "Kickstarter," it's like the second word hits a mental delete key and I forget all about whatever it was I just read. Did I know about this game? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I won't miss it.

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What a great write up! I can feel your pleasure for Elite and how it grows when you can play on Linux. I'm going to wishlist Elite now.

I first ran across Elite at my local mall sometime in 1985, immediately bought it, brought it home, and loaded it onto my C-64. At the time it seemed impossibly huge---256 star systems in 256 galaxies, if I remember correctly. The best times I had with it was the summer a friend of mine and I played as pilot and co-pilot, taking turns, one of us manning the keyboard and the other manning the Atari joystick.

I've avoided Elite because I was hurt by their reneging on a Linux port. But, now that it's playable on Linux via SteamPlay, I find my anger and resentment have mellowed a lot---not entirely, mind, but enough that I'll buy it one of these days on sale, I'm certain.

Again, thanks for your excellent article. It spoke to the 21 year old BBS posting, Elite playing C-64 cowboy that was me, oh so many years ago.

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... a deadly biological attack took place so the government shut the internet down ...

Is anyone else scratching their noggins over this plot point?

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From what I see and hear, it looks like something I'm going to love. I giggled at the video's beginning, where the little person has their feet up on the console.

The only place it might lose me is if it turns out that "exploration" means wandering around aimlessly without a map, backtracking and hunting for that one room I need to complete a level. That shit makes me crazy.

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