Quoting: officerniceAm I the only one who finds it annoying that Valve does not have the official whitelist somewhere in Steam?

That is because Steamplay is not yet official; it is still in beta stage...
I hope it will be officially implemented in December.

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Quoting: dorronAs much as i love Feral and their great work porting games to Linux...they are doing too many games like this one.

They'd be better off doing something with a wider appeal.

its one of the most played game on steam, that dont have a linux port, or is gta5, pubg, etc

tomb raider will have a linux port i guess. not even 3000 players in the past 24h

https://steamdb.info/app/750920/graphs/ [External Link]
https://steamdb.info/app/594570/graphs/ [External Link]

i also wish they would port yakuza, or elex, or sniper elite, but they have to make money
and then there is proton. could be, that they dont make much money with life is strange 2, cause some play it with steamplay NOW!

That is the problem with Feral and episodic games; they wait until all the season is finished.. That was OK before Proton, but now the rules have changed.
They must release NOW the episode 1 and the episode 2 simultaneously with the Windows version...
Or, at least, if they didn't ported the episode 1, they must release a dummy linux depot, and they must add the Linux icon at the game page... If you buy it on Linux, it will work as a pre-purchase...

Or maybe they have an arrangement with Valve and they will get a cut of Proton sales.

About Shadow of the Tomb Raider, if they haven't announced it by now, is because it will not be ported..the same goes for Shadow of War.

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C'mon Feral, stop wasting the time with this! You should be releasing the episode 1 of Life is Strange 2 right now, because it has Platinum rating when played via Steamplay 3.16-4

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At this rhythm, Proton will never leave Beta stage and the new Steam play will never be officially implemented.

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Well... I won't miss a game without Spanish language support...
So, bye Hinterland! You know where the door is.

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Quoting: GuestIf a more advanced user kvetches about a CLI, then it is indeed a matter of habit. But knowing how many Windows users have started with exactly a CLI, i do not believe it is a real obstacle. Their CLI was called DOS and was much more uncomfortable to use. And they did put up with it.

I always was a nerd hobbyist.
My first true contact with computers was in 1996, with an MS-DOS tutorial in a PC with black and white monitor.. It was THE ONLY thing available then...
Then, I moved to another place for a tutorial of GUI Windows 3.1 and MS-Works using a 486 DX2 PC with a color monitor (I discovered Wolf3d in that machine, by the way)
Once I used Windows 95 in my first computer, in March 23 of 1998, I fell in love of that simple and intuitive GUI...

I know CLI very well, that is why I hate it so much...
Believe me. No Windows (power or regular) user want to use a CLI command. Distro Developers must solve that if they want to attract windows users.

Example:
Install drivers and software in Windows is easy: Just download the file from where ever you want and run it, in Linux is not that simple and that must be solved as soon as possible by Distro developers-

Take a look at GOG. They support Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, but instead of using .deb files, they use .sh files that can not run on GUI by default...
If Distro Developers want to attract average Windows users, They have to make it SIMPLE.. including the process of playing a popular videogame.

C'mon Valve! You can do it..

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No doubt that Philip Rebohle is THE Linux software developer of the year.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI get that I am biased, but I don't understand why not more people are switching to Linux, which seems to be the better choice for almost everyone these days. Do people resent change really THAT much that they stick with an inferior OS when they could have a better one for free, and all they'd need to do is investing a day or two in getting used to it?

We, The humans, are animals of habits... A LOT of people (millions) started their computer life in the 90's with a Windows (3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000, Millenium) PC... And that people inherited thier computer habits to their children.
Plus, even now Linux is still difficult to use and configure: things must work out of the box without any console commands needed and without dependencies hunting, without having to configure PPA's and without sudo this or sudo that.

And, We have the "distros" issue:
Meanwhile there are just three Windows distros that must be supported by game developers in the present (Seven, eight and 10), Linux has A LOT of distros and is a headache for the developers to support all of them.

I agree with jardon, Linux NEEDS the must-have titles to be considered viable as a gaming OS.
Even with the fast evolution of Proton, most of the Call of Duty games just don't work, and THEY MUST WORK OUT OF THE BOX if We want to see more people Gaming On Linux.

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I hope they solve the missing mouse cursor in the Steam-overlay.

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Quoting: GuestFor what it's worth i read left and right that in some countries there is a culture of piracy of the most popular windows du jour. Coupled with a rather narrow computer culture.

Also, maybe the crowds have been introduced to mass consumption of computers later, with cheap machines slapped with a pirated windows and nothing else. A bit as appliances you are not very curious about.

I wonder how many of us Linux enthusiasts are older people from countries where the home computers where a thing before windows ate the domestic market or ex-students in institutions where the computer labs where often UNIX.

I am aware this is speculation on my part. Based on very little substance. :wink:

In 1998, when my grandma bought my first computer, a generic PC with a Pentium MMX 200, (a Pentium MMX 166 overclocked by the retailer, indeed), 32MB of RAM, 850MB, ISA audio card with HUGE sound volume (it wasn't a Soundblaster), CDROM reader, 14" 1024x768 CRT color monitor (it still works!) and a SIS videocard with 1MB (replaced by a Diamond with 2mb), it came with an illegal version of Windows 95 installed by the retailer itself.. and it was a serious retailer store.. I live in an small town in Argentina. That store doesn't exist anymore.

I remember overclocking it to 225... wow!
I played the demo of Doom, Hexen, Heretic, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, Duke Nukem 3D from CD's included in computer magazines like PCusers.. Illegal games came when I got internet, with a BOCAMODEM 14kbps card..

But I remember seeing legit games being available on boxed diskettes at stores.. I was temped, but the diskettes don't last long, I wanted legit CD's..
That was the main problem with the physical distribution until 2012, if the legit copy was not available, the only way was to get an illegal copy on a videoclub or computer store...

I remember "Cyber's" from the last decade, all with illegal windows installed, fulfilled with viruses.

And I agree, the bad called Piracy was and is a cultural issue, at least in my country...

About me, I abandoned the path of Jack Sparrow just in 2012, thanks to Steam, GOG and a credit card.

And thanks to the recent pesification of Steam Argentina with friendly regional prices and the possibility to pay with cash via Rapipago, the new gamers don't need to download or buy illegal games as before...
Some people download this or that illegal game as a DEMO, and if they like it, they buy it on sale.
Now, We need Origin with regional prices in Pesos.

Back on topic, is good to see humble cards like the GTX750ti still alive. If you play at 720p, or even at 900p, you have enough... and is good to see humble dual core processors still alive..
Game reviewers must take note on that.
It is OK to review a game on 1080p, 1440p or 4K, using an expensive video card and a super ultra CPU with 8C/16T with 32/64GB RAM, but don't ignore people with humble hardware.
Games must be reviewed at 1366x768 too, using machines with 8GB of RAM and 2C/4T processors (like the olde Haswell core i3 4160 or the new Coffee Lake Pentium G 5400), because a lot of people use humble hardware like that- I'm gonna try Proton games on a humble machine like that, just for to see how well optimized are the games, ignoring the official hardware requirements.

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