Yup there's no need to participate in this vs that arguments. Their pointless.

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This is terrible news, what are the windows users going to do now? They get a new tactic to use against us and now it is gone!

I feel sorry for the windows users now, as they had a perfect weapon to say "See even valve says your dead" but now it is gone, it lasted oh such a short time for them, kinda makes you feel sad doesn't it? :(

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Sadly this may be the beginning of the end. Valve may have decided to lower the pressure and end support of Linux (starting with hardware) due to low sales before they blow a valve.

After all, the Linux marketshare on Steam has dropped into the 0.3% range.

Think of it this way, if you were a betting women and you were told you had a 0.3% chance of winning the bet, would you put all your money down on that bet? Probably not.

Remember, Valves Linux Steam Marketshare is losing steam these days and is not gaining any pressure which from a business perspective is bad.

This sucks, but could be true.

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In a sense your both right.

Yes, using Windows whether dual booting or exclusively will count towards the Windows market statistics, simple as that. So far as stats are concerned that's another Windows computer on the internet.

Purchasing Windows software, be it games or applications will also count towards Windows market share statistics even if used in Wine, as far as stats are concerned that's another piece of Windows software sold.

The only way to not add to the Windows statistics is to not use any Windows software, whether by dual boot or by wine.

As for ease of use, Linux can be both easy and not easy to use. For example if you stick Mint on an average computer it will almost certainly "work out of the box". But if said computer has strange hardware or specific requirements it may not work. While in most cases it would, there is the odd case that it will not.

But let us not forget however that Windows also suffers from this problem. In many cases with Windows it may not work out of the box, you may need to search the internet for drivers, or use a provided CD. It's those additional drivers which are making it work. But since they are not included by default with Windows technically it does not "work out the box" as further additional drivers and configuration are required.

Sometimes that device can be a network device, and if you haven't got the CD that can be a pain in the backside to get the driver for. Just like it would be with Linux.

In the event it does not work on Linux this almost certainly means the manufacture didn't do for Linux what they did for Windows, that is make a driver. But 9 times out of 10 you can find a driver somewhere for it. This would require additional configuration, but then so does Windows in some cases.

I remember having a Realtek ethernet port which would not work with the stock kernel, I had to go to Realtek's website and install their driver. But that is again effectively the same as on Windows having to insert the CD or download the driver.

Sure on Linux you may have to use command line, but often you can just copy and paste commands for stuff like that, and in many cases kmod packages exist which do it for you, which you can install from your package manager (Like the nvidia ones).

It has been a very long time however since I put Linux on a computer and it didn't work.

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Quoting: liamdaweLooks like it may have been pushed early, as it now has a SteamOS icon.

This is terrible news! How dare they release it early! Who do they think they are huh?

Releasing early is a disgrace to Linux users worldwide! We need it released on release dates, not early!

/kidding of course.

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Interesting. It's good to see another variation of games on Linux in the form of the first Farming Simulator!

I may not be getting this, farming sims are not really my thing. But having said that I said the same thing about Euro Truck Simulator, got it at a discount and now play it quite often. I also purchased American Truck Simulator day 1 of release (it supported Linux).

So I may get this anyway, just to check it out. We'll see.

But I'm happy to see it supports Tux! Sadly however this means that there won't be a "Linux Support" thread in the forums with some fun arguments between Windows and Linux users as to whether the game should support Linux.

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w00t!

Nice!

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Quoting: pete910Agreed, To me it looks like MS are going to make a Win distro basically.

Drop the NT kernel, insert GNU/Linux kernel, drop the company that owns it (Microsoft), insert Linux Foundation as owners, replace the UI with XFCE, open source it and you got a new user!

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I think it's great that it works out of the box, and for those who play driving based games constantly these are perfect.

However, I can never justify the expense for myself, they take a fair amount of space, and for the full kit (wheel + gearstick + pedals) would set me back £300 and that's a heck of a lot for a game pad controller!

But either way, I'm pleased to see it works on Linux so well! You mentioned the wheel calibrated? Did the pedals do the same? would be cool if you could be watching a replay of your race and the pedals/wheel were moving to match the replay of what you did :D

It'd give you the self driving car experience! :D

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This looks interesting! Nice to see VP doing something for Linux again, they seemed to back off a bit though due to how much people were slating them for not making native ports, which I believe ended up with them reducing the amount of Linux ports they wanted to make. Sad but true.

Their ports aren't native, and sometimes are indeed slow, but they got us games like Saints Row 2 on Linux which would have never happened otherwise (considering, for example, Saints Row 2 source code was lost years ago and even the current Windows Saints Row developers do not have the code for it) - In cases like these a non-native port-wrap version of the game is the best option.

It's probably also the cheapest game porting option, so makes a good "entry point" for some developers who just want to test the Linux water.

But all of that aside, this game will be great to watch Liam play, I'm curious how many times he can make his rider fall on his ass after hitting the side of the track or other bikes in a single race! I bet he can set a new record for number of times someone falls on their ass in a single race! :D

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