While 0.09% can be a fluke, it sends a wrong signal to developers. If it does not rebounce next month, we may see a wave of cancelled ports.

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West Norwood is a train station pictured in the Train Simulator add-on "South London Network" - thus Train Simulator will finally arrive to Linux!

Alternatively, West Norwood Cemetery is one of Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London. A cemetery means lots of tombs, means Rise of the Tomb Raider.

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A quick necro: Debian 9.0 has been released. Time for SteamOS 3.0?

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Is this reactivation because of Windows 10 S? Or was the previous update simply so challenging from technical point of view?

We'll probably never know...

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So, it's basically stable, cause it has been hovering around 0.8% as far as I remember.

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Quoting: ghemSo I wonder how they would entice people to switch, how they would differentiate themselves in the eyes of the average consumer.
What could you do on a Steam machine that you wouldn't be able to on a windows PC or a console? Or that you would be able to do in a better or different way?
So far, I only see the Steam controller, but I wonder if that's enough

Compared with PCs:

• Maintenance-free, no need for a keyboard & mouse for administrative tasks.


• No desktop OS raising its ugly head: no OneDrive notifications, GeForce Experience pop-ups, other processes stealing window focus, less components, thus less risk of something breaking during update etc.


• (Potentially) less overhead. This is not the case today, as the BPM itself is a performance hog, but there is significantly less stuff happening in the background, so when Valve fixes the BPM, more CPU/memory should be available to games on SteamOS than on Windows.

Compared with consoles:

• Mods. No, limited modding being slowly introduced on consoles doesn't count, though this may change in the future.


• Steam itself: community, marketplace, workshop, sales, free multiplayer, cheaper games etc., etc.


• Lower barrier for entry: more indies (and more crap :) ).


• Open system underneath, if you wish to take a deep dive (important for a very narrow audience, as many people who would appreciate it scream "Steam DRM" and refuse to use Steam at all).

Is it enough to compel people to switch? So far not, but that's mostly because of performance and lack of games. If UWP is made mandatory though, we may see that some issues that consoles have will come to Windows, all while Valve, game devs and Nvidia/AMD work to improve gaming experience on Linux/SteamOS.

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Quoting: bingusWell, fighting for their money. They are hardly doing it for our freedom :)

That is an ally: simply in this case Valve's goals are aligned with those of the Linux community. Let us use it and don't expect more than that.

The best that could happen to Linux is MS shutting off Steam on Windows. Boom, and a new platform is born.

That said, it would be nice if Valve made it easier to install non-Steam games on SteamOS from within the BPM, for starters by removing the limitation that .desktop files should have no spaces in exec lines, but also by providing a limited graphical sudo interface in the BPM.

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Everyone focuses on the AMD driver change, but Nvidia is quite bleeding edge too with 381.22.

I hope that the update will go smoothly when this release hits stable, considering it will be a bump from 2.98 to 2.115.

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Reading through spoilers here, I have just realised that the sequel might mean that DONTNOD will have to spoil it, which ending is "canonical".

Unless they sidestep it completely by telling an unrelated story of someone else who can rewind time...

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Quoting: EikeOf course there's no guarantee, but at least we know that the developers are open to Linux ports and Feral has a connection to them. My guess is that Life is Strange sold well on Linux.
I'm optimistic on this one.
For reasons, not due to whishful thinking.

Vampyr will be a test of good will. If it's not on Linux, we can forget about LiS 2 probably.

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