Quoting: PixelPi

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: PixelPiAnd even though he does everything under Linux and has enormous knowledge, he plays exclusively under Windows, which in turn does not mean that he might not log in with his Steam Client on Linux from time to time, maybe for testing something.

It's not everyone's pleasure to fight with problems, when someone just wants to play.

I don't understand this anecdote. Playing games in Linux has not given me any more problems than my years of playing games in Windows. The times it doesn't "just work" are the rare exception rather than the rule.

I had problems so far with: Bioshock: Infinite, Deus: Ex, Total War, Metro 2033, Mad Max, Tomb Raider and some more. Tearing in nearly every Game. Sound issues a lot. Have until now found a solution for every problem. I never played under Windows but all my problems were Linux related. Also many Games are simply not available for Linux.

Sounds like you have something mis-configured then. The tearing issue is a long-standing problem for Nvidia cards in Linux (it existed long before Linux was a viable alternative to Windows for gaming), but the solution is ridiculously easy and has been around for just as long. Here's the latest Gaming on Linux article about it:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

I can't comment on sound issues because I've never encountered any for as long as I've used Linux. Ever. My sound card is a Sound Blaster Audigy that I've had for over 15-years, and it has always "just worked" in Linux, and it sounds great, so I've never seen any reason to upgrade.

I've never had to do anything special to make a game work in Linux beyond the occasional routine problem solving that you have to do even in Windows, but that's par for the course for PC gaming. If people want truly trouble-free gaming then stick with consoles.

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Quoting: PixelPiAnd even though he does everything under Linux and has enormous knowledge, he plays exclusively under Windows, which in turn does not mean that he might not log in with his Steam Client on Linux from time to time, maybe for testing something.

It's not everyone's pleasure to fight with problems, when someone just wants to play.

I don't understand this anecdote. Playing games in Linux has not given me any more problems than my years of playing games in Windows. The times it doesn't "just work" are the rare exception rather than the rule.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionOh, we must be back on the "Steam survey is inaccurate" side of the pendulum this month.

It has always been inaccurate. I wish Valve would settle the debate once and for all and tell us exactly how many Steam users are running Linux. Even more interesting would be to see how many users are running one OS exclusively and how many are dual booters, because I suspect there are a lot Linux users who also run Windows, and that will skew the survey results.

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I was thrilled to see them give away a Linux game this time. Last month they had given away GRID which I eagerly snatched up only to realize that it was Windows-only. :|

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Ah, I was hoping it was a real fix that didn't rely on hacky work-arounds.

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Quoting: corqSo is this solid? As in, pre-order on Steam solid...

Never, never, never buy a game until a Linux version is actually available to download at the time of purchase. This can't be said enough, apparently.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI can speculate on one thing though... when they said they were doing a "feasibility study", I first wondered if this meant technical or market feasibility, but now I think it's clear it's a technical one.

I don't think that's clear at all. "Feasibility study" is such a vague term that could mean anything.

The only thing we can say for sure is that Aspyr wasn't certain if Civ VI would be ported to Linux, and now they're certain that it will be ported to Linux. Anything beyond that is idle guesswork.

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I have way too many big, time consuming strategy games at the moment, between Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron IV, Stellaris, Civilization V, Total Warhammer, Empire: Total War... do I really need to add another to the pile?

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The real question is, is Civ VI worth buying in its current state? Or is it like the last two iterations that really weren't worth playing until after at least the first expansion?

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- Fixed Steam not obeying SIGTERM, Steam will now gracefully exit when logging out of a session

THANKFULLY, I've not been hit by this one often but it always puzzled me before finding this steam bug a while back.

(For those who don't know, this caused elementary os and a few others to never shutdown proper. The system just stayed on forever, stuck on the shutdown screen)

I think I've been hit by that one before since Ubuntu MATE will occasionally hang during shutdown, and I have to physically power-off the computer. Never knew what was causing, but this could be the culprit.

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