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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I just checked and I see:
Windows -0.02
OSX -0.03
Linux +0.05

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Captain Spirit is working too..

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Quoting: Guesteeeee, just got done testing Killing Floor 2

No longer run into the issue where my game would crash if I tried to use server browser

Just been playing past hour or two and working great, big deal for me too because it's one of the main games I dual boot into windows for.. Definitely not going to have to boot into windows as much anymore ^^

What about the perk stats bug?

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Quoting: mylkabut who needs bejeweled,....

Literally, my mom, a casual gamer of 70 years...
I activated an spare Bejeweled 3 code in her Steam account and it works as native.

Plus, several Hidden Objects games are not available for Linux, but they work as native via Proton..

Not all steam users are hardcore gamer nerds and I suppose that Valve want to cover all fronts, including casual gaming.

I was asking about the process in general..
Is Valve using contracted BETA testers? Volunteers?
Or is Codeweavers behind the whitelist process?

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What I'm looking forward to now are Valve finding a way to deal with all those zero-byte updates and seeing how they advertise Steam Play on store pages.

I wonder that too...
And I am curious about their actual whitelist process.

Is good to see life signs from Proton devs after two weeks.

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hmm.. Outlast 2 [External Link](Proton Platinum rated) is on sale, is ... and You have an extra discount [External Link] if You have the first Outlast (native Linux)

Bioshock: The Collection [External Link] is on sale to..
You have 1 native Linux game and 4 Proton games, all counted as a Linux sale.

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Quoting: DJVikingHave hell frozen over?
I never though EA would make any move towards Linux. Along with Bethesda and Blizzard they have been utterly hostile against Linux. For them it is all about the money.

Exactly. Linux is Free of charge vs Microsoft eventually will charge companies for to be inside their walled garden:

Quoting: MicrosoftSo.. I see You want to earn a lot money using MY POPULAR Operative System.

Quoting: EAYes... So what?

Quoting: MicrosoftSo, You have to pay Me if you want your game running inside MY POPULAR walled garden.
If You don't, your game will not be able to get installed and run..
Your game must be available for sale and download exclusively on the Windows store and you have to pay Me a big cut of the cake.

Quoting: EA#$%@#!!!!

...EA need a plan B, just like Valve did with their Proton initiative.

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And the original Metro 2033 IS GONE...
If you didn't add it to your account, you just missed a digital gem that works fine on Proton...

I created my new protonic account just in time ^_^

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Quoting: cprn

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo[...] The ORIGINAL METRO 2033 [External Link] IS BACK on STEAM!!! [...]

When was it off? :O And why??

The Original Metro 2033 was removed after the release of the Redux version...I prefer the original piece of gaming art.

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