Title should have been "Steampunk Puzzler Steamroll Available For SteamOS In Steam Early Access" for maximum steam. :P

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyNow this makes sense to me. There's a selling point here somewhere. I'm not sure, for example, if an Alpha boots straight into Big Picture. I'm not sure if you ever need to do any configuring in Windows

I don't know how much configuring you have to do on the Alpha, but engadget had this comparison in their review last month [External Link]:

Quoting: EngadgetThe Alienware Steam Machine is everything that Windows-based PC "game consoles" aren't. It's easy to set up, easy to use, extremely reliable and practically idiot-proof. Let me invoke the Alienware Alpha one more time to illustrate this: When I booted up Dell's original media-center gaming PC for the first time, it presented me with a "grab your mouse and keyboard" Windows 8 setup screen. It was awful. The new machine? It showed me a simple outline of Valve's Steam Controller, asked me to press a single button and then effortlessly led me through signing EULAs, adjusting TV settings, setting up the internet and logging into Steam. It was easy.

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Quoting: adolsonWindows as a gaming console OS is crap.

Windows is not for me but I hate to see completely unqualified and unsubstantiated statements like: Windows as a gaming OS is crap, when any impartial person would tell you Windows is streets ahead in this regard.

I think 'console' is the operative word in what adolson is saying. Windows is better for PC gaming, with better driver support and more games developed for the OS. But as a console OS for hassle-free comfy couch gaming in the living room, it's less than ideal. A lot of that is due to MS's limitations on how much third-parties are allowed to modify the system (afaik the xb1 runs a Windows kernel, but since it's made by MS, they can modify the OS to suit their needs). That is where Linux has the advantage, Valve can do whatever they want, and all updates running through one central application that Valve controls makes it a lot easier to have a console-like experience.

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Quoting: ShmerlStill waiting for functional DX11 support. I wonder what will happen first. DX11 support in Wine, or official Witcher 3 release for Linux?

DX11 support or no, until CDPR says that the Witcher 3 port is definitely cancelled I'm not going to buy the Windows version. If/when it comes out on Linux, I want my purchase to count as a Linux sale.
I really hope that Witcher 3 comes to Linux before DX11 comes to wine, because otherwise Linux sales will likely look pretty poor.

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Quoting: OrkultusSo i just got my Steam Controller last night, and i can use it when i have it plugged into the usb cable, but for some reason when i go to add / test steam controller in big picture mode, when it says Hold X while powering on your controller, it doesn't find it. Anyone else having this problem?

im on Peppermint OS 64bit. I even went as far as adding the udev rules for the steam controller.

I'm not following. It works as it should with the wire connected, but not at all wirelessly? Or it doesn't work in BPM?
I don't think I had to do anything to manually add the controller, Steam recognized it automatically. Or are you connecting to a Steam Link?

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Quoting: BeamboomHold on a sec:
Is Steam working for you under 15.10? When I upgraded to 15.10 my Steam client were uninstalled due to unmet dependencies, and I could not install it again after the upgrade. So I downgraded back to 15.04 again.

Is this fixed, or did you do something special to get it to work?

I upgraded about a month ago, and haven't had any problems with Steam.

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Works fine for me on Ubuntu 15.10. Played a bit with the Steam Controller, it's nice to have the extra grip buttons. I mapped up/down to them, but I think I'll change that to roll. Would be great if it were possible to map roll to gyro, but I don't think that's possible. I still suck at aiming with the Steam Controller, so I connected a Dualshock 4, worked out of the box. I only had to switch the button prompts from 360 to DS4.

EDIT: just tested, and it's possible to map d-pad to gyro. Quite fun, but maybe not the best control scheme, tends to spin out of control. I might just remap the weapon switching to the d-pad, and the up/down to shoulder or trigger buttons.
What's nice is that the game allows simultaneous mouse and gamepad input, so it's possible to use the right pad on the controller as mouse while keeping the gamepad inputs for the rest.

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Isn't Rome II already on Mac?

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Quoting: SeegrasThey removed the Linux Repo (or whatever these are called), so it doesn't show up for Linux anymore.

If you mean depot, according to steamdb it has a Linux depot
https://steamdb.info/app/393610/depots/ [External Link]
Has the same size as the Mac and Windows depots.

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Another thought for the unique question:
How many games are in your Steam library? How many in your GOG library?

Also, would it be possible to publish the raw data somewhere, not just the graphs?

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