Not surprised, the whole system is rigged to throw numbers at windows stat data, not at all surprised linux slips past due to system-statistical errors.

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I don't think Underworld Ascendant sold as well as they'd hoped, in saying that I did buy it but haven't played much, seems to work ok but feels rather small world corridor like so far.

REAL shame about SS3, the trailer looks pretty decent but if you haven't enough funding then I guess its time to shut up shop and move on in life. Don't do a Duke Nukem Forever!

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YAY, but really I will be super excited if we ever see Battleye and EAC anti-cheat software support in steamplay, when/if that happens it will be awesome!

Steam has offline support baked into their client. The only real concern is the multiplayer network components, I don't know if steam would release a client side server app to host such a thing if that day ever came.
(like perhaps in the event of the apocalypse and humanity is nuked to dust, we would need client side server hosting :) )

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Problem with EPIC GAMES is they don't support Mac and Linux, and their webstore app is DRM based (worse then Steam) with very few features for the community to use. No*** Discussion / Review / Forums / VR / Offline / Modding / Cross Store Support / Steamplay or Proton can't be pulled in like GOG2 allows. Jesus the list is endless.

Ultimately these issues will gradually grind players down to the point of returning to Steam. EPIC is just winning atm due to BIG exclusives...

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Quoting: PhlebiacI've been hoping Phoronix would do some benchmarks (even asked once), but he never has.

There are benchmarks comparing NTFS EXT4 BTRFS XFS on phoronix site. There may be some windows10 based benchmarks but I can't recall.

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Quoting: ShmerlWindows users are more lost than Linux ones.

I think that would be in rather niche situations however. Linux has the advantage of lots of open source drivers and hack in patches yourself, unless your stuck with nvidia drivers, pretty much a dictatorship there.

Quoting: PhlebiacBad move, NTFS is total garbage compared to every Linux-native file system. Just look at any of the I/O benchmarks on Phoronix (Windows native vs Linux native).

Performance wise, NTFS is pretty damn fast under windows, its just under Linux where its still pretty terrible (but functions). You might get 1/6th the performance with NTFS under Linux vs Windows.

I use it for cross-platform testing, but am considering moving to EXT4 and just using a paragon license. AND NO I REFUSE to use BTRFS, its amazingly slow, as proven continuously with benchmarks and comparisons! Until someone can FIX btrfs to not be slow pos fs, I aren't using it!

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I'm sure its not vaporware, I just don't know how much better its going to be then the Ouya thing.

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Probably not in fullscreen because its in development stage, they haven't flipped the switch yet.

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Quoting: BillFlemingThe author of this article really didn't do their research. The game runs fine without needing a patched mesa.
You just need...

I guess the point was that it's not a out of box experience, like many things under Linux, you need to stand on your head and rub your tummy to get some things going.. lol

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Allot of the MESA updates are sort of unstable and in beta phase. It makes good progress but at the same time is dragged behind by terrible display backends like X.org or even the forever slow to process Wayland. (in saying that the windows AMD driver is in somewhat bad shape, they need to make it open-source and just unify with Linux driver!)

Anyone who regularly flips between Linux and Windows will fully understand the serious limitations of Linux desktop back-ends and drivers.
I was using Arch Plasma5 setup last week for a good 6months, back on windows10 (had to reinstall the stupid thing due to broken MS update) and its quite clear how far ahead windows still is for a general gamer ease of use.

I'm only using windows10 for testing and some Bethesda gaming, both of which I can get running under Linux but with no freesync (via gsync, due to flickers), and a 30% performance hit which is a KILLER at 4k.
Also there is a significant disk access penalty but that COULD be related to using NTFS under Linux (I have it configured the best I can). But I suspect the disk access performance issue is also related to WINE(via proton) somewhat.

Hate me all you want, I HATE Microsoft and Windows, but can't deny the fact they have gaming Desktop with ALL the bells and whistles down packed damn well. (minus their terrible semi-forced update system and how it sometimes can brick your install.....lol)

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