Nice article. Your approach to crowded funded games mirrors my own. I'm not against crowdfunding either (or early access), it's just that we see so many bad cases that I become vary of it.

I do want to clarify some things that people should keep in mind if Linux is a stretch goal, if so you should take the stance that it won't come to Linux. The only times I consider supporting it for Linux is when Linux is one of the supported platforms.

Another thing you should keep in mind is what engine they are using. Cryengine games have a history of not coming to Linux. Am I right when I say that most games that are ported to Linux are either in house engines, Unity or UE4?

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Quoting: LeopardIndie devs are planning support for Windows,Linux and Mac at the beginning.Because when you did only computer compatible games,Linux and Mac suddenly becomes meaningful about sales.

Rather large companies are just focusing three platforms at release.Windows,PlayStation and Xbox.

I think that's the main reason of why Linux ports are failing.

Yeah. I don't know what it is.

Lack of technical expertise?

Lack of planning expertise?

Ignorance towards different types of platforms?

Many games are listed as "coming to PC", which is either a marketing ploy, ignorance or theses companies have their hands in Microsoft's wallet. I'm really not sure what it is, but as someone who have worked with computers most of my life on hobby basis and I work in IT as well, it just really grinds my gears.

I think this is an ethical thing, as it's misleading. PC as I bet you all know refers to the hardware, not the operative system installed on it. If people were were randomly talking among each other sure, but they are selling a product, so there really should be some rules enforced by countries and commissions. That they have to list it as Windows, Linux, Mac OS / Windows PC, Linux PC, Mac Os PC and so on.

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Quoting: melkemindThere's also a demo [External Link].

Great! Don't see many companies offering demos anymore. I will check it out.

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Quoting: sarmadThe fact that many studios starts working on a Linux port then drop it tells you that developing for Linux isn't smooth that studios start struggling and decide to cancel the project. Let's hope Vulkan changes this situation.

Yet, there are many indie developers who pump out multi-platform games again and again. I think the problem is that developers think it will be easy or didn't plan for muti-platform support in the start, so they have platform specific middleware and api. It's just incredibly poor planning. If anyone did any kind of research about PC and the different available OS for it (which would take less than 5 min on a google search), they could plan accordingly and it's better to have your options open than to lock yourself into one ecosystem.

I've heard mixed things about this game, and have the impression that it's at most a mediocre game. Once it does come to Linux, I would consider buying it if it goes on sale.

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When I started out with Linux in 2006 I only used Windows for gaming. It wasn't before 2013 that I started using Linux for gaming.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusion^^^

have a user defined setting that allows filtering the entire home-page to be Linux-only titles.

Maybe you should mention this part so that readers don't get confused.

I should have been able to easily connect the dots. I should have been able to assume that he meant user setting. I was just really tired.

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So, you asked for the option to only show Linux games on your own homepage in the store?

I don't understand why anyone would argue that. It's like denying someone the option to buy apples just cause you don't like apples.

edit: I saw the setting clarification when I scrolled down on the page.

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I tried Antergos some years ago on my desktop. It was pretty straight-forward and I didn't have any problems. Definitely one of the nicer distros out there, but I feel more at home with Manjaro.

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Nothing wrong with AUR, it's just that you should be careful with what you install, and look over the makefiles / pkgbuilds.

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Quoting: Duke TakeshiI personally like the idea of having the latest software all the time, however I heard some people complaining about updates (especially kernel updates) ruining their systems and I don't want to spend a lot of time on maintenance.
On the other side there are people having used arch linux for years without problems.

I've been running Arch, Arch derivatives, Gentoo and Gentoo derivatives for several years now. If you learn how to use it responsible then it will run fine, and tbh I think that Ubuntu is more unstable than Arch and Manjaro.

Quoting: Duke TakeshiAnd how about proprietary software? For example I like to have spotify on my system and I like pycharm since I code a lot in python for university. Would that work well on antergos?

Arch and Arch derivatives have more packages available than most Linux distros I've tried.

Arch is also a better learning experience. You get down to the metal of what Linux really is.

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