Quoting: liamdaweAspyr already do this, try to get support on an Aspyr title when you use Mint like me for example. Their reply is they only support Ubuntu and SteamOS.

And I'm totally on board with that. To try to support every single distro out there would be absurd. They officially support SteamOS and Ubuntu, support beyond that is up to the community, I don't see a problem with it.

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroBatman has a tux icon!

Probably means Linux will launch concurrently with Windows, as they usually don't put the icon up of it is not a same day launch.

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Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of Mordor, bah gawd Shadow of Mordor! I am so buying that game the day it launches (I won't buy it now as it might not count as a Linux sale and I won't be able to play it for a while anyway).

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Quoting: wojtek88Guys, looks like Shadow of Mordor, Saints Row IV and Batman Arkham Knight are coming to Steam OS this year! Great news. Look at the Steam website for details.

All those are great, Shadows of Mordor is the one that has me the most giddy. That game was giving me a serious case of Windows envy.

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Quoting: vulturegnome. but, if you want desktop you DON'T want SteamOS. SteamOS is aimed at console couch potatos who need looooots of gaming, little or nothing of desktop. also, desktop will never feel as good as on any distro due to many reasons. mainly realtime kernel which makes otherwise smooth operations look choppy

if you are casual desktop+gaming, use distro of your choice and Steam. it will be much better experience. personally, i would fall in the first group

Like a low latency kernel, or does the SteamOS kernel go beyond your typical low latency kernel? Because I run a low latency kernel (on Ubuntu Studio 14.10) and I have no problem with my desktop experience. Then again, I'm the type that doesn't care about the look of my desktop that much and about bells and whistles (compositing got disabled moments after installation concluded), I just need my desktop to work.

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Quoting: HipsterRichI literally have no clue what the SteamOS is, is it like linux or what ;/

SteamOS is a Linux distro, like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Slackware, etc. It is based off Debian and aimed, unsurprisingly, at gaming as it boots, by default, directly into Steam Big Picture Mode (from there you can switch to the desktop if you'd like, I forget which Desktop Environment/Window Manager it comes with).

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Judging by the name, this is likely going to be packing a GTX 970. That's a good choice. Lawsuit aside, the 970 is a damn good GPU. I'll be curious what the price tag will look like.

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76/144 of the games I own on Steam are natively Linux. That percentage will go up as I don't buy anything but Linux native any more.

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#IWantToBelieve

Shadows of Mordor was the surprise hit of 2014. I would buy that game in a heartbeat if it came to Linux. Like, not even waiting for a sale type heartbeat.

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I'm pretty excited about this. I've been salivating over this game, and every time I've seen it go on sale I'm sitting there sad faced that no penguin logo was there yet. Hopefully when it's released it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less broken than Warlock 2 (which sucks since Warlock 2 is a fun, if unremarkable, game).

As for beta testing, I'm out on that front, I'll wait until it's fully released and reviewed on Linux. I've been burned by too many buggy releases over the past half year or so and don't have the will to go through a buggy pile, even if it would be helping the community (sorry). I'll wait until I have solid evidence that this game works well on Linux before pulling the trigger.

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