Good guy Liam :)
Honestly, based on what I just read, Steam should re-introduce a penguin icon and a steamOS icon.
Penguin for the obvious gnu/linux and steamOS for saying, optimized for big picture/steam machine.

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Buying it through the Humble Bundle is actually cheaper + you support charity

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Rocket League all the way with a Steam Controller

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Awesome linux bundle!

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I love the graphics style of parkitect!!!!!!!!

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I download the drivers from the nvidia site and the installation has been really easy.
After a fresh install you run the installation and it auto runs a script to blacklist nouveau. You reboot and then run the install again. Now everything installs fine. I usually throw another reboot to be 100% sure.

Voila, latest nvidia drivers

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Thanks Liam - that is some great attitude from both you and VP. Kudos to you

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Big time D1-2-3 player and looking for the next cool thing. Even if I don't win I will end up buying this game since it has me very interested.
I am extremely curious about the controller controls and would absolutely love you GOL if I could win a copy.
As for a weapon of choice, I think a scythe would be my poison :)

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I'm not an elitist/advanced Linux user but I must say that the latest games that have come out on Linux have been working fine on multiple distros. I myself run Ubuntu / variant and my cousin uses Arch - most of the games we purchased together and played together work fine. Latest game being ARK - ran for us both without any issues.

This is just to say that now that Steam Machines are coming up, mentality of people is changing, mentality of companies is changing - this is all causing for them to work together to make sure that developing on the Linux platform becomes easier and more unified. This said, I can see that maybe in a year, development for Linux will be a lot easier, less time consuming and more rewarding for game developers.

I am glad I made the switch to Linux, I am more than happy with the titles currently in my Steam library/DRM free list which all work fine. Gaming on Linux (oh I did that!) will never reach Windows levels, but I see the world changing and I can assure that in the future, games for Linux will net more than 1-3% of the sales.

offtopic: that said, I wonder what the % is for the ARK sales.

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I've been following the game for a bit now and I must say that the dev team behind ARK works so so hard. Bugs are reported and within a few days they are fixed.
I know why the linux version is a bit buggy... they made a promise to release it on the 25th, pushed the date back, pushed the date back again... did a random selection public testing and then HAD to release it since people were shouting and screaming.

Do note, the game is in early access and this is the first version of their linux alpha. How was Storms United when it first came out for linux?

I have no doubt in my mind that once the development stabilizes out - they will optimize the game so that it will run much nicer. This is also not related to the linux client as people on windows are also complaining about performance.

Even at 25-30 fps on medium the game is enjoyable

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