SteamOS is still not ready for mainstream consumption. Missing drivers, bad driver optimizations, library file issues, AMD is still largely missing for sysreq on software. And then there is the MAJOR AAA titles still not wanting to port to Linux (where is my Skyrim and Fallout4?).

Maybe some of those issues will be sorted out in the next 12 months I dunno. But Valve KNOWS what must be done to make it successful.

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Seems interesting. Thought its not clear on if it can produce UV mapping for you or not. Seems this guy has made the UV maps manually beforehand, which is a pain on complex objects at times.

Definitely going to give this a go with painting a tank sometime in the future, I really wanted to get into using ZBrush but at $800 for a single license and no Linux support.. nope.

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It would be nice if Steam just allowed you to invoke the survey yourself via settings menu. Or have it so you can set you account to Linux yourself.

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as the AMDGPU-Pro driver does not support the R7 370.

The AMDGPU-PRO drivers do work on ALLOT of hardware that isn't listed. Its always worth the attempt to install them and see. Just be aware some games need patching to work right such as Feral games (I have these). And on top of that Tomb Raider had some odd missing libraries for me, you can find help on Steam about that.

Anyway I run a R9 390x and the AMDGPU-PRO drivers work for me under 16.04 with MATE-Compton setup. (kernel4.6)

Also you didn't test AMDGPU (kernel driver not pro). Probably perform that same as RadeonSI driver however.

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Waiting for XCOM2 to go on special. Definitely something I want to try under Linux (with these PRO drivers.)

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For existing games, Wine is ok I guess. But I don't think it will be too great for stuff like Fallout/Skyrim. If optimized correctly then Wine can run just as fast as Windows (check out Tomb Raider). But Native is definitely better, wish the industry didn't rely so heavily on DirectX, as it is now biting them in the asses!

Maybe if they sell enough of these ports, they will release a native version later on? Either way it will be interesting to see the performance cost of using Wine here..

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Think we will need to monitor people playing games on Linux, perhaps hours played or frequency to determine the trend of Linux gamers, because I buy allot of keys from NON steam websites because I miss all the specials and its convenient for me, am sure allot of other people do also.

Point being is you can't look at the stats of people just buying on what platform via the Steam Store because many buy outside of that.

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Wish Feral would optimize CoH2, runs terribly.

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Has some nice ideas, but I did notice some performance issues in areas. The main issue I felt was the levels look pretty old tech, like old 2008 graphics in areas, with lower fps then you would expect.

I really don't know where all there money has been going for these past few years? its making good progress but not 150k sales progress...

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Yeah Mac only supports OpenGL4.1 and Metal, Apple refuses to put any effort into support above that on their platform so I'm not surprised. They won't even support Vulkan. Basically its the beginning of the end for gaming on Apple systems except for when Apple directly pay developers to release stuff that is.

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