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SC Controller, the driver and UI for the Steam Controller is being rewritten to be more portable
26 November 2018 at 8:12 pm UTC
Is this driver better than valve's own driver? Valve's driver doesn't work out of the box and you have to tinker with udev files to get it to actually behave like a normal controller (for games that has built in controller support).
The Atari VCS team put out a post to talk about the Linux OS along with an open source project teaser
22 November 2018 at 11:14 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: danniello
QuoteSomething along the lines of: if you plug in a bootable external USB drive our hypervisor will boot from it, otherwise it will boot the internal Atari OS.
LOL. If I interpret it correctly - hypervisor means that "other OS" will be started as VM in KVM/Xen hypervisor. It means no real GPU acceleration in VM.
Not necessarily. They said it will boot either of the two OSes and that's different from booting the main OS, and then booting the other OS inside. If Atari OS is not even loaded then all the hardwares, including the GPU, will be available directly to the guest OS to use and you should get native performance.

However, for me I prefer the path Steam Machines took, which is a very open standard Linux distro with Steam Client on top of it. That is more attractive for Linux users than a closed system that is compatible with Linux APIs. Also, with Proton Steam Machines become way more attractive. I wish AtariVCS all the success nonetheless.
Feral Interactive are asking you to send the game port suggestions again
15 November 2018 at 3:38 am UTC Likes: 2
Fifa or PES. Linux needs a football game.
A new Humble Monthly is out and it’s not bad with Cities: Skylines (and DLC) plus MGSV
5 November 2018 at 9:49 pm UTC
How can you play a game from Humble Bundle through Proton?
The Steam Hardware Survey for October 2018 shows a small drop for Linux, a look at daily and monthly active users
2 November 2018 at 11:41 pm UTC
There are few issues that need to be resolved before Linux can be mainstream:
1- More hardware vendors provide Linux laptops as an option.
2- Some big retailers start providing Linux laptops.
3- AMD laptops become widely available.
4- Proton matures more.

3 & 4 are not far from happening. 1 & 2 are the tough ones. But if all 4 happen, expect linux usage on steam to quickly rise.
Valve have pushed out a new Steam Play beta with DXVK 0.80 and more
29 September 2018 at 12:41 am UTC
Quoting: legluondunet
Quoting: sarmadIs there a way in Steam to search for games and filter out the ones that don't work on Linux, neither natively nor through Steam Play?

Look here for Steamplay compatibility:
https://spcr.netlify.com/

Wow, nice. It's a bummer that Valve isn't providing the filtering itself. I mean, they already have the white listing feature, so why don't thy give an option to filter search result by whitelisting status?
Valve have pushed out a new Steam Play beta with DXVK 0.80 and more
28 September 2018 at 6:00 pm UTC
Is there a way in Steam to search for games and filter out the ones that don't work on Linux, neither natively nor through Steam Play?
Valve have released some interesting statistics about controller use
26 September 2018 at 11:47 pm UTC
It's been many years since the Steam Controller has released and on Linux it still doesn't work out-of-the-box, at least on Ubuntu it doesn't. You always have to tweak system configuration files to get the controller to work. In addition to that, Steam Controller doesn't hot plug into the game, you always have to restart the game to get it to recognize the controller and if you leave the controller idle for a while that it powers off you'll have to restart the game as well, though I'm not sure if other controllers work any better.
Steam Play's Proton beta has been updated with a performance improvement and fixes
30 August 2018 at 9:48 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: Saulsecsiramirez Guess you can say this is picking up steam. ?

I think we can safely say that. After just a week there are already 771 issues created and 26 pull requests. You can't easily find projects with this much activity so early.
Knights of Light, a historical action RPG set in the Middle East will support Linux, currently on Kickstarter
7 August 2018 at 3:22 am UTC Likes: 2
Interesting to see if they can actually pull it off with that kind of small budget, but given that they got this much done already before the campaign started I guess it's doable. The AI seems to be quite primitive at this stage so hopefully they'll improve upon it a lot down the road.

It seems to me that they have Linux enthusiasts among the team, given that they are promising Linux support despite the low budget and also promising DRM free.

We don't always get history professors approving game scenarios, so this one is quite interesting. Looking forward to it.
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