Quoting: Whitewolfe80You can keep hoping but Witcher 3 is not happening

Why do you think so?

I agree there's no hope for CDPROJEKT to port it themselves, but why wouldn't they license it to a third party developer?

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Quoting: Joeyboots80It's the least I can do to give back to the site I use so frequently. Thank you for all you do Liam, and here's to the future of Linux gaming! Cheers!

I second that. Thank you Liam for all the work.

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Quoting: elbuglioneToday, i think skyrim for Linux (Vulkan version), have not technical problems to be a real thing. the only real problem is absolutely "commercial thing"

I wonder if it's "commercial thing" though. It looks like some ideology rather than business. Just think of DOOM: from what we can read, the game was developed with portability in mind, a perfect candidate for a Linux port, probably with little work. And yet no Linux port. If Bethesda doesn't want to port it themselves, there are a few companies that can do it for them.

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Good job, Feral.

Pity I didn't wait with playing SoM a few weeks more. I finished it in early January :(

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Quoting: ronnocIIRC they are three college kids who work in the game part-time. So it's understandable, really.

Perhaps they could find the fourth college kid, with knowledge how to develop multi-platform games? :)

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Quoting: PicoboomI'm interested in SteamOS, but haven't been keeping close tabs on it across the years. I'd love to see a live version available to just get an idea how well it would suit me, even if it weren't any use to actually launch games with. (I'm thinking in particular about the handful of desktop apps I simply won't do without on my living room media box, and wondering in general whether SteamOS shares the shortcomings of BPM: resource guzzling, incomplete lists, deficient chat client, etc. etc.).

[Addendum:] And that broadcasting feature, I'd like that as well, please. And a pony.

SteamOS is the BPM running on Debian, with a tweaked compositing manager that scales everything to 1080p and performs some other tricks. The system is configured to log directly into the BPM.

That's SteamOS, nothing else.

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For me it was always just about showing Microsoft that there is a way out for Steam. Microsoft wouldn't be able to lock down Windows overnight and Valve showed they could use that time to make Linux a viable gaming platform. Microsoft backed down, Valve put SteamOS on the back burner.

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The fact that Valve created SteamOS to show Microsoft Steam is not dependent on Windows was obvious from the beginning - and yet many people are surprised each time someone mentions it, one example being the famous Dell interview about Alienware Alpha/Steam Machines.

One thing I like about Steam on Linux, including SteamOS - or I should say "Steam on Debian/Ubuntu" - is the fact I don't have to care about libraries. All Steam games just work. I know it's not the case for other distros, but the experience on Debian is extremely pleasant.

It would be nice to have a robust set of libraries for gaming with some umbrella name and a version, which could be targeted by devs and given in requirements the way that Windows versions are specified. Ubuntu is very close, but it makes life more difficult for users of other distros.

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And yet no Steam BPM/steamcompmgr as an option for the desktop environment.

Sure, I'm using KDE or XFCE on my main purpose PC, so I could put it in the PC info, but this would suggest I tweaked SteamOS. It's already misleading I stated I dual boot. Yes, I do, but on the old PC which I use to play Windows-only legacy games, not on the Steam Machine.

Perhaps the question should be "Do you use another operating system to play games unavailable under Linux?"

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A perfect candidate for a room experience in VR... At least until the raft becomes big enough.

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