Quoting: KimyrielleNice of them to give away NWN. It's an old game, but in some regards I still consider it the best game ever made. No other game ever came with such complete modding support. I lost count how many hours I spent in the game, really.

It was also one of the very, VERY few games to release -natively- for Linux back in the days and thus was absolutely groundbreaking for out platform. The "Bah, it's a Windows game!" naysayers here really have no clue what game they are bashing here.

I still have an ancient copy of this game squirreled away on my hard drive that I installed many, many years ago when I was still running Gentoo. I haven't started it up in quite some time, so I don't even know if it still works on my set-up, but you're absolutely right that it was one of the first commercially available games that supported Linux.

Also as a point of trivia, it was originally supposed to be just a toolkit, and all the content was to be 100% user created, but BioWare decided that it wouldn't sell without a pre-made campaign, so they slapped one together just before release. I always wanted to delve into making my own modules, but I just never took the time to learn.

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I can't name just one, so here goes:

The Batman Arkham series
Anything from Blizzard (but especially Diablo 3)
Anything from Bethesda (I'd like to play Skyrim again)
Anything from Rockstar
Dragon Age: Origins (the last great BioWare game before they were swallowed by EA)
Guild Wars 2 (I still play in Wine, but performance is terrible)

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Quoting: catskinsoxBut while we're on the subject of Steam issues, can we please have working full screen videos within the steam client?

Fullscreen videos work fine for me.

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This seems like one of those things that should be so simple to fix -- Linux apps have been able to minimize to the tray without problems for over a decade -- but I guess Valve must have a reason for leaving this feature disabled, though I can't imagine what that reason might be.

At any rate, ever since I switched to Ubuntu MATE and started using Plank, this problem is effectively solved for me. Plank is an OSX inspired program dock where open programs are indicated by a single icon, so the Steam icon sits inconspicuously alongside my other pinned apps.

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I like the look of the game. If it has strong roleplaying and good combat then it doesn't need flashy graphics.

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I wonder what the actual problem is.

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Will probably be good for porting older games to Linux or running them in Wine.

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Quoting: 0aTTShould the game be purchased via the feral store to support Feral Interactive directly? Are Linux purchases on Steam really counted? I usually play in Big Picture. I've heard that Valve does not count that.

Big Picture mode isn't counted for the purposes of the hardware survey, but if you buy a game from within Steam for Linux/SteamOS then it always counts as a Linux sale, unless a Linux version isn't actually available at the time of purchase.

As for buying from Feral or Steam, I think a larger chunk of the profits go to Feral if you buy directly from them, but I'm not certain of that.

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Quoting: edddeduckferalThe games are released on Ubuntu, results on Ubuntu are accurate and are very similar to SteamOS but much easier to use and test. Using an unsupported distro and WM can sometimes cause issues you don't see on supported systems.

I'm expecting that, if no bugs occur, performance on different WMs shouldn't differ much. Do you have experience on this?

If whatever window manager you're using can automatically suspend compositing when a fullscreen program is active then you'll probably be fine. I know KDE doesn't enable this by default which kills performance. If you enable that setting then games seem to work about as well as they do in a lighter weight window manager like Xfce or MATE.

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A few things come to mind:

1) Isn't this essentially what Steam already does with its built-in runtime library?
2) Isn't it up to the developer and not Valve how they wish to distribute their software? If a developer wants to use Flatpak instead of the Steam runtime library then why can't they? For that matter, developers have always been able to bundle individual libraries if they wished, so what advantage does Flatpak really offer?
3) I find it ironic that Flatpak is supposed to make it easier to install software on multiple Linux distros... but they only officially support Fedora and Ubuntu.

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