Yeah. I'm pretty much thinking the same thing :-).

Hopefully they respond to this thread and let us know the release date?
http://steamcommunity.com/app/206420/discussions/0/485623406956997770/ [External Link]

I doubt it though :-(

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Quoting: SketchStick

Quoting: KallestofelesThe ONLY time I've ever gotten one was back 3 years ago when Steam was still in beta for linux with 2-5 games? (might be overreacting a bit)

I've always been under the impression that users only get selected for the survey when they actually login into the steam client with a username and password, it never seems to pop up when the client is reusing your credentials. That would also explain why when ever I test out Wine (and have to enter my password) it'll all of a sudden prompt me for the survey.

I'm not so sure about that.

I booted up my wine steam today to install my new free Hitman 2 game and got a survey. I didn't enter login details as they were already saved. So yup prompted on auto login :-).

Oddly however I also installed a steam update today to my Linux client and restarted it. That one never got the survey and that was booted/logged in before the wine version.

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Quoting: mironice to see these efforts, but hopefully wine will become obsolete one day. I have not been using it for months, lots of games and stuff runs natively by now - let's keep continuing that.

I doubt WINE will ever truly become obsolete. Bear in mind, WINE is made to do more than just play games. Games are not its only purpose.

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Well according to steam:

Men of War: Assault Squad (Got from humbly bundly works well through WINE) - Spent two hours in the game so far.

Cities: Skylines - I accidentally sunk 26 hours into this one! Kinda ashamed of my self for wasting so much time instead of working in my spare time but meh I can take a break from time to time :-P I actually am glad this game works so well on my system even though I have a relatively weak GPU (GTX 650) which is below the minimum spec but the best thing about city builders is they mainly need a powerful CPU and lots and lots of RAM. And that's cool because prior to steam coming to Linux this system was built with development purposes in mind which also require a powerful CPU and lots of RAM.. so yup this game runs nicely, typically now using around 7GB of ram and 4 out of 8 cores, either way it's barely scratched the surface of my system :-). But due to my total play hours so far I have banned myself from playing this game for a while :-P.

I've also been playing DiRT Showdown with a total playtime of 13.8 hours, but 1 hours in last two weeks.

Then there's the other game I've banned myself from: Tropico 5, 48 hours on record... Thankfully 0 hours in last two weeks thanks to my ban :-P.

Played some of alien isolation, sunk 4 hours into it so far, but been playing other games also so not yet finished it..

Hack N' Slash, this game is actually quite cool contrary to popular belief I actually really enjoyed this one!

I have 6 hours on Secret of the Magic crystal.. BUT don't worry! I didn't actually play this one, it got given to me by humble bundle as a "surprise" for paying more than the average. Suffice to say I left it running to sell the trading cards. It is now un-installed and removed.

Think that's about it for "recent" games. :-). Total play time for last two weeks is: 27.9 hours. You can guess which city builder stole those hours from me :-P.

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I don't think existing Steam users are necessarily Valves target here with SteamOS and Linux support. After all existing users were already buying their games.

I think the goal is people who do not (or did not) use Steam prior to SteamOS or Linux support. For example, me. Prior to their Linux support I never even had a Steam account nor ever used it. However by supporting Linux they gained a new customer, had they not done so I doubt I'd have ever used it. I think this is their goal, to get even more people using Steam.

This is why SteamOS is done in a console style as it's to do two things:
1) Attract console gamers who may be interested in games PC has to offer or a better experience
2) Attract PC gamers who don't want to give up their PC games for a console

SteamOS can achieve both of these goals once it gets more games.

Thus, I think these are their goals. After all they are a business at the end of the day and must make more money.

Anyhows, Bring on Saints Row for Linux! Release it please deep silver!

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Thank god it's not a uplay game! If they said they were porting UPlay I'm not so sure I'd be happy to use it. I'm not a big fan of DRM to begin with to be honest. While yes Volvo's Steam has DRM but for the most part it's transparent aka, you don't really notice it's there and it hardly ever causes any problems (on its own).

However, my experience with UPlay has been quite the opposite via wine. Often it has dumb errors, for example claiming it can't connect due to it thinks it's behind a proxy and it's not (turns out this effects windows users too)

Also those pesky update checks on every start my good god! I have AC2, AC3 (Got them free with my graphics card) in my UPlay account (Nothing else!) I had AC2 working great with UPlay I finally got all the problems solved, UPlay worked, AC2 worked and I had a nice shortcut which would launch the game directly and launch UPlay at the same time it was great!

Then Ubisoft thought: Hey! I know! Lets force this update to everyone which completely breaks compatibility with wine thus preventing any installed games from working! Yay!

So what I'm trying to say is.. I hate UPlay and I would never use it again even if it had a Linux version!

Even Steam for me in wine has never been this bad, for the most part it has always at least started far enough to launch games.

/end UPlay rant

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Sounds pretty awesome, might have to get this one if they release for Linux!

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Looks nice, I got it to run for about half hour or so on solo mode. However it completely locked up on one of the equip screens. As in, my entire machine dead-locked. Couldn't SSH in, couldn't move mouse, no keyboard response etc. Had to force power off by holding power button (I hate doing that..) :-(

My computer didn't seem to like it either, didn't power on after force off when pressing power button haha. Had to flick the PSU switch off, wait for power to drain, then turn it back on in order for my computer to respond to its power button again.

Aside from that minor issue the game runs okay on my NV GTX 650 (Yes I know I need to upgrade...), temperatures were fine, below 50C for cpu, and ~45-50C for GPU so not a heat-related issue.

But overall seemed like a good game :-). I was doing quite bad though I had super delayed reactions to those target pop ups.. I haven't played FPS games in a really really long time... I'd have been dead in a real combat situation no doubt.

On the plus side, I did get alien isolation on high graphics settings running well at around 70-80FPS after a lot of graphics setting fine-tuning. Not bad considering it defaulted to "Very Low" settings.

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