All this means is that they don't get my money. Their loss.

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Wait, Bundle Stars? Isn't that one of those fly-by-night key resellers? Chances are good these will count as Windows sales. Keep that in mind before spending your money.

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Well, it's a pity he doesn't have the integrity and professionalism to admit that his problems are apparently due almost solely to his unfamiliarity with his non-standard monitor and his inability to troubleshoot a fairly trivial issue (such as simply trying a different monitor, or connecting a second HDMI cable).

What's happened to the tech industry? Used to be that technological advances like a dedicated Linux-based gaming OS would have been celebrated, and tech journalists would have eagerly dug into it to explore all the new possibilities. These days, anything that challenges the status quo is ridiculed instead.

It's a shame.

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Quoting: maodzedunBecause I wanted for kodi to be added as a launcher in there. Anyway, I'm happy you like it but imo it's crap. Ubuntu is a much better solution. In the end I just boot in ubuntu with kodi for movies and a modded Windows will solve my streaming problems (that one's on AMD though).

As Liam mentioned, SteamOS is explicitly designed as a platform for playing games through Steam. It's not meant to be a general purpose operating system.

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Update:
As I suspected, a hardware issue as pointed out by a comment on their website.

To bang on the "try a different monitor" issue, looks like the monitor he was using has known issues with hdmi connections and requires 2 hdmi cables to display at 4k. That's hardly a mainstream situation. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-pq321q-4k-monitor-review,3698-4.html [External Link]

Well, that's embarrassing.

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It sounds to me like he was using a standard HDMI cable instead of a high speed HDMI cable. The fact that he was apparently unable to troubleshoot this doesn't give the author much credibility as a tech writer.

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I lost all respect for him as a developer back when he blew through his backers money with nothing to show for it and then said, "Oh, yeah, I'm rewriting the game from scratch. Please give me more money."

The guy comes across as a snake oil salesman.

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Quoting: adolsonThat screenshot doesn't make it look very exciting. Guess I'll have to go find a trailer or something. lol

It's hard to make a turn-based 4x strategy game look "exciting" in a screenshot. Look at the screenshots for Civilization V. It looks pretty dull, but it's one of the greatest games ever made.

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Quoting: lejimsterI really hope Croteam thought this Vulkan update through and it provides real performance improvements over OpenGL, because it really needs it on Serious Sam and The Talos Principle. OGL performance is mediocre on my R9 270 compared to DirectX. The most annoying thing are the fps hitches when you first load a level, but Serious Sam 3 was frankly unplayable even at the lowest settings for me on Linux.. So I haven't been able to enjoy that game yet.[/quot

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Quoting: linuxgamerFor me Talos and Serious Sam 3: BFE had a quite low performance. Talos went well as there is very few time depending action, but it was not possible to play a FPS like SS3, so I preferred to get a refund.

Really? I played the demo of The Talos Principle and was getting a solid 60 FPS.

The disparity between some gamers reporting excellent Talos performance and others reporting poor performance is probably AMD/Catalyst. Remember AMD is quite bad at OpenGL, and are putting their hope into their AMDGPU open source driver for correcting that.

That may be true. I'm rocking an Nvidia card, a GTX760, to be exact. It's a great little card.

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Quoting: linuxgamerFor me Talos and Serious Sam 3: BFE had a quite low performance. Talos went well as there is very few time depending action, but it was not possible to play a FPS like SS3, so I preferred to get a refund.

Really? I played the demo of The Talos Principle and was getting a solid 60 FPS.

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