This looks really interesting. I prefer turn based combat over real time combat. Judging from the video there seems to be quite diverse units and tactics in unit placement and unit upgrading involved.

Would be nice if they will offer a Linux demo (they already have a "PC" demo - PC seems to be Russian or so for "Windows", I guess). But I worry that - as usual nowadays with smaller and not so well known titles - there won't be enough players for reliable multiplayer gameplay.

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This is especially nice for me, since the previous port of Civilization V from Aspyr Media crashes constantly on newer NVIDIA drivers

Hm. Not for me. It works fine with 375.26 (64bit) on my Mageia machine (Nvidia drivers directly installed via Mageia repository) even though I just meet the system requirements for it (GT640, 4 GB RAM, Athlon X2 @ 2.9 GHz). It needs around 4 minutes to start (game start + loading a saved game combined) but I never had crashes.

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Faeria. The latest patch with it's free content (compensation for the lost option to buy the core set of cards with one purchase) gave me finally enough cards to craft a sick yellow/green sac deck. :D

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Really disappointing news. Guess, I will buy and try out Stellaris then.

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I never used SteamOS. I installed my beloved Mageia distribution once more on an extra hard disk (the "Linux licence" allows that, you know) to have an extra gaming setup without the game saves and game configuration files messing around with my work/job setup (where I like to mount /home with -noexec e.g. which doesn't work with Steam). No problems so far with it!

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: MicromegasHardware acceleration for In-Home Streaming? Nice. Now the terminal window will look even better when I remotely administer my Gaming PC via my Netbook.

(Add "Konsole" or any other terminal program you have installed on your Desktop PC as a "Non-Steam game" in your Steam library and start it via In-Home Streaming on your Netbook...)

Why would you forward your terminal through Steam? That's like calling someone sitting next to you on the telephone instead of just talking to them. Ever heard of ssh?

You saw the smiley under my post? :-)

What I wanted to point out is that Steam's In-Home Streaming can be used for all kind of different stuff by adding Non-Steam applications with a single click to your Steam library and making use of them via the In-Home streaming feature.

I mentioned to add a console app in my post to make a little fun of the hardware acceleration. But you can of course add any other software with higher graphical demands. Like - perhaps - a Non-Steam Windows app or game installed on your Linux PC via Wine. It's the way I play Hearthstone on my netbook.

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Hardware acceleration for In-Home Streaming? Nice. Now the terminal window will look even better when I remotely administer my Gaming PC via my Netbook.

(Add "Konsole" or any other terminal program you have installed on your Desktop PC as a "Non-Steam game" in your Steam library and start it via In-Home Streaming on your Netbook...)

:-)

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I got rid of Windows a few years ago. Only using Mageia now. But I dual boot nevertheless: From Linux (work) to Linux (games) because I don't want executables running under /home on my Linux for work partition.

I do use Wine. Playing Skyrim, Dishonored, The Banner Saga, Galactiv Civilizations II and Hearthstone under Wine. You have to do some research sometimes to make it work but it's less annoying than maintaining a whole Windows system.

Linux is so much more usable than Windows if your main concerns are security and ease of maintenance (automatic backups, full-disk encryption, re-installing a whole system after a crash and of course automatic updates for all your installed software not only the OS…). And I love KDE. Especially Dolphin. Windows is crap compared to that.

So, here are two little tips to help you to abandon Windows:
Look via Google for alternatives on Linux to the Windows programs you got used to. Alternativeto.net seems to be a pretty good website for that purpose, too.

Look in the AppDB of Winehq.org for some hints to possibly run games which are not ported (yet).

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