I had some trouble with graphics on my system a while ago. Hope they are resolved, because this game rocks !

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I miss BF1942 multiplayer very badly. No other FPS was more fun than that (TF2 came close).

Other than that, I haven't used anything from EA in about 6 years... Of course having their titles on Linux would be a huge plus, but personally I wouldn't support or play them.

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I was stationed in South America for 5 years for my job. Always using a Linux notebook and regularly using Steam. Never got the HW Survey in those 5 years. I came back to my homeland in Europe two months ago and got the survey TWICE since then.

Also, my girlfriend also uses Steam on Windows and never got the survey in South America either but as soon as we arrived in Europe she got it as well.

Pure coincidence? I don't know. But this is also a factor in play. South America is poor (except for Chile, which is like France). Poor means people often use pirated copies of Windows and many, many friends and colleagues use Linux over there... Due to regional pricing, Steam Games are very cheap in Brazil (where we were) and most gamers have 100+ titles on Steam. Oh yeah, don't forget Brazil alone has over 200.000.000 people. So if 1% of those use Steam and 5~10% of those use Linux (which might be not too far from reality for Brazil, from my own experience). That's already quite a huge number of costumers unaccounted for, as I had the feeling HW Survey do not target that land.

So yeah, these 1% numbers are very questionable.

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If SteamOS really takes off, are you guys not afraid that game developers will just test and debug their games for it and will leave we, who used Linux decades before that, empty-handed?

I'm afraid developers will release stuff for SteamOS and new users will not even realize it's Linux. The spotlight might be on SteamOS, not on Linux developing and gaming... Or I am very wrong?

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Yes, very nicely played, Obsidian.

PoE is awesome.

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I'm very interested in this as I played competitive UT99 and 2k4 more than a decade ago. Right now I only have a laptop as I'm always on the move.

How is performance on lower-end systems? Does anyone know? I'm tempted to install to see.

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Starbound is broken. They still call it a sandbox but the game requires you to follow it's strict path in order to progress. It's being dumbed down, sadly. Was a lot of fun in earlier versions last year, but now I consider it shelfware.

The game is very shiny and looks nice but soon uninteresting after the first planet you visit. I'd not recommend buying it now. Hopefully it will be polished and made fun before final release, whenever that might be. (Game's been in beta for two years)

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I don't wanna make more marketing for manjaro but three commands have installed bumblebee with nVidia drivers on my notebook over a year ago and it updates everything automatically without EVER any issues... Actually, bumblebee problems when updating ubuntu versions was what drove me away from (X)ubuntu back in 2013...

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Typo:

... After a successful campaign on both PC and Mac, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is being released on Linux on the 7th of August...

PC is an acronym for Personal Computer. http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PC [External Link] and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC [External Link]
A PC can run any kind of OS tailored for a PC. Among those are Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD, etc.

On your text, I assume you were influenced by Mac adds, where they ignore this plausible definition of PC and use the term as a synonym for the Microsoft Windows OS family. This sadly puts Linux and other OS'ses under the shadow, so please don't spread this mistake further!

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OH this looks very cool!!!

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