Quoting: pb

Quoting: sarmadI am using Unity Editor on Linux at work. It works, but with issues compared to the MacOS version (haven't tried the Windows version). The biggest annoyance is that it idles at 100% cpu usage! They know about this issue already but haven't fixed it yet. I am now downloading the new version to see if it resolves that issue.

Fast forward two months and the issue is still here... :-/

Yup, very frustrating. My guess is that it's not a bug, it's that they are doing something fundamentally wrong and fixing it requires a big refactor of the code. My guess is that they have a loop for updating things in the background instead of depending on events.

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My guess is that the rise is too big to be accurate. 0.33% probably means millions of new users and that's simply too big to happen in one month. Still good to see though.

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Why would he say it wasn't worth it? At 20$ the Linux sales amount to more 600k$. I doubt porting a game built with Unity3d would cost more than 100k$ at most, which means half a million dollars extra profit.

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17% is pretty good considering the lack of marketting or interest on Valve's side, but it's most probably less than it used to be a year ago. I remember seeing roughly 20% or more of the latest released titles on Steam supporting Linux, but at this moment out of the latest 100 games released on Steam only 13 of them support Linux.

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Quoting: ShmerlAlso, I expect in the future it will be much easier for Wine to implement DX12 → Vulkan translation, than all the humongous effort for DX → OpenGL. And Vulkan based Windows games should be even more straightforward.

RE: Vulkan based Windows games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhUIpQsJxfc [External Link]

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: sarmadIf Doom is already going to support Vulkan, why not support Linux as well?

Because it's Bethesda. Times of idSoftware are long gone.

This, like I've said before, there's a lot more to a game than a graphics API. Anyone who says Vulkan will make more Linux ports is just wrong.

How much of that "more" is platform dependent though? I'm guessing not much.

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If Doom is already going to support Vulkan, why not support Linux as well? What else is remaining that they refuse to support Linux? I'm pretty sure the remaining work is about one week of work or so, and I'm pretty sure the tiny Linux market will cover that one week of work and make some profit as well.

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Quoting: GuestI’d rather get a simple .tgz than an annoying installer.

tgz archives don't have a way to specify dependencies. If the game doesn't have any extra dependencies then tgz is good enough. If it does then you better have a proper package otherwise the user will need to hunt down dependencies which is a pain.

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This is the same as the System76 Oryx Pro laptop. I have it with the gtx 980m model, and it's great.

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Quoting: Pecisk

Quoting: sarmadI was planning to get a Steam Machine then changed my mind at the last moment and got this instead:
https://system76.com/laptops/oryx [External Link]

Obviously regular gamers don't need the extra non-gaming power in this machine, but I needed that extra power for work. So, Steam Machine manufacturers aren't the only ones who started believing in Linux gaming. It's nice to finally be able to pick up a powerful gaming laptop designed specifically for Linux. I am really enjoying Tomb Raider on this machine :)

System76 is go to Ubuntu OEM vendor for very long time.

Yes, but they weren't making any focus on gaming in the past as they are doing with the Oryx.

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