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Saints Row IV gets Steam Workshop support for Windows, they are hoping to update the Linux version too
23 Nov 2016 at 10:35 am UTC

I was about to buy the game since it is on sale, but a LOT of people are having trouble with saves. I once lost 45 hours in Batman AC because of a such bug, so I'm not touching this until the fix this problem.

A quick video on SC Controller's new gestures feature, the standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller
18 Nov 2016 at 1:32 pm UTC

It show this:

clesio@HAL9000:~$ sc-controller
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/sc-controller", line 26, in <module>
from scc.gui.app import App
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/gui/app.py", line 11, in <module>
from scc.gui.controller_widget import TRIGGERS, PADS, STICKS, GYROS, BUTTONS
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/gui/controller_widget.py", line 14, in <module>
from scc.constants import SCButtons, STICK, GYRO, LEFT, RIGHT
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/constants.py", line 26, in <module>
from scc.uinput import Axes, Keys
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/uinput.py", line 55, in <module>
Keys.KEY_ESC: 0x70029,
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/lib/enum.py", line 422, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: KEY_ESC

A quick video on SC Controller's new gestures feature, the standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller
18 Nov 2016 at 12:25 pm UTC

It is broken for me. Installed it from their repo and nothing. Complains about errors in some files. Tried download the source and run it as told by their page, same thing. Dependencies are installed, obviously.

Just a heads up 'Firewatch' is currently rather broken on Linux
17 Nov 2016 at 7:15 pm UTC

I cannot even pass the start screen, the game freezes. Using the radeonsi driver in a RX 470.

Silence from Daedalic Entertainment is an absolutely beautiful story-rich adventure game, my thoughts on it
15 Nov 2016 at 1:54 pm UTC

Witch engine are they using? Looks like it lacks advanced lighting effects.

The latest Steam Client Beta should fix downloads and updates on Linux
4 Nov 2016 at 11:01 am UTC

For some time now I'm having a problem with Big Picture overlay when playing a game. After pressing the Steam button on a Steam Controller, the overlay only covers 2/3 of the screen. Anybody having the same issue? I'm using the radeonsi driver.

Marek has sent in another Mesa commit to help improve OpenGL performance, using threading
30 Oct 2016 at 11:08 pm UTC

Quoting: tuxintuxedoUbuntu LTS versions offer kernel and Mesa updates a few months after a new distribution. For 16.04 this means kernel 4.8 and Mesa 12 early next year. You can also use ppa-s, like oibaf's one, which have more bleeding edge Mesa versions.
It is about 4 months after a new release. So Ubuntu 16.04 will get 16.10 graphics stack in February.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack [External Link]

Quoting: veccherjust a noob question: how to update mesa drivers? i need to recompile kernel or something like this or it's kinda automatic in updates like the ones from ubuntu update center.
If you want bleeding edge stuff, install Padoka's PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa [External Link]

He updates once or twice a week, and you get all the packages needed. Oibaf updates daily (I find annoying) and he didn't updates Ubuntu LLVM stuff, witch is important, performance wise, to AMD cards.

If a update screw up things, you can roll back using "sudo ppa-purge ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/mesa"

Team Fortress 2, has fixes for Linux texture handling issues
23 Oct 2016 at 11:15 am UTC

Quoting: vermillionI downloaded the update with the hope that it might fix the graphics lockup issue affecting radeonsi cards, but after about 5 minutes of playing, it happened again.
One guy at Phoronix said that disabling multicore rendering (under Video settings) fixed the crashes for him in radeonsi. You can try that.

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays
14 Oct 2016 at 3:33 pm UTC

Quoting: tmtvl
Quoting: MGOidKubuntu is one of the few distros that delivers a pure KDE, without any customization, as showed in the images.
Yes, it even comes with a Qt browser: Firefox... wait...

Anyway, it probably is Kubuntu, because the *buntus are still considered to be the golden standard, unfortunately.
I don't think Firefox make it unpure, the theme and wallpaper are still untouched :-)

But, what choice did they have? Both Konqueror and Rekonq went MIA a long time ago, and there is no other QT browser well maintained and integrated with KDE, so the best is to stick with Firefox or Chromium.

The Gnome folks have Epiphany, but I wonder how many stick with it instead of Chrome or Firefox.

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays
14 Oct 2016 at 12:24 pm UTC

Quoting: MyeulCWell, to be fair, we don't even know if it's kubuntu (the tweets aren't from the computer's owner, AFAIK). It could even be that they decided to switch to KDE for their next SteamOS release, who knows?
Kubuntu is one of the few distros that delivers a pure KDE, without any customization, as showed in the images. And as Valve uses Debian as platform for SteamOS and Ubuntu as a target distro, I think is safe to say it is Kubuntu.