Just to face reality, let me remember something not too long ago.
I know for a fact that in case of Dell, even after a few years of stating "officially supporting Ubuntu" on their models they had some serious issues. There was a case where the pre-installed system had a buggy extra package added to support wireless (which actually worked without it) and this made the whole package managing system fail and become unfixable after the first update. Another case was audio simply not working because the kernel didn't have it at that time (nor was it even planned) and Dell didn't notice or care later. An independent guy made a lot of contributions to hasten the development.
As I heard nowadays Dell laptops are much more Ubuntu friendly (even I have one), but I wanted to highlight that publicly stating to support an OS can be very far from actually testing it and supporting the people who are using it on an end product.

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Quoting: elmapulif you boot via live cd, it will be using the generic nvidia drivers or the same version that you install?

Although the closed Nvidia driver is now included on the install media (live CD), the generic (open source) driver will be used by default. So for a Live, nothing will change from before.

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Just to let others know. I use Kisak's ppa and updated Mesa recently to 20.0. There was an error with the update at the end saying it couldn't install or uninstall something. With Synaptic, the broken packages were repaired easily, some new packages needed to be installed related to it.

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I don't think they need to know that. Just the numbers are important. Only the latter matters for the devs using Stadia.
Of course they might collect the extra info for typical Google advertising purposes.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Marc Di LuzioIt's still OpenGL by default unless the game developer specifies.

They still haven't stabilized the Vulkan path?

I believe that's not the important part. Vulkan is not an all-purpose API, many developers simply don't need it when they can choose OpenGL, even on Linux. So I don't see why it would become default.
Is DirectX 12 also the default for Windows users?

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They have some kind of track editor, although documentation is not that detailed. They were Greenlighted on Steam long ago, so after they are done with the license related changes, they only need to push the upload button. I know it's a bit more complicated, but there are no other obstacles in the way.

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I wonder how the people of Battle for Wesnoth solved this. They are on Steam for a while now.
Hope SuperTuxKart will eventually get the attention it deserves from a much larger community.

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Keeping an eye on this for a while now. But will wait till they sort out the game a bit more and put in optimizations. 8 GB RAM usage is a bit much.

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Looking forward to this one.

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Just found this a few days ago, but was sad they didn't have a Linux version. Great news.

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