Money's not an issue... Time is! ;D

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I know this article is kind of dated but some people had problems on Arch... I just installed it with no issues whatsoever on Manjaro using yaourt - can't you use it on vanilla?:
yaourt -S ffmpeg-nvenc-manjaro

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I don't care about developers and their feelings (sorry, Feral, but I don't know you personally guys - we can go for whiskey some day when I'm rich and will feel like landing in US in my private jet). I don't care about Linux "ports" (because I believe software should be developed on Linux first). I care about quality games being released for Linux on Steam with regular updates, sane performance, and sold for a sane price. We aren't 2nd sort people and we shouldn't treat ourselves as we were saying "oh, let's be happy because this lousy job Linux *port* could be worse". I'm not paying less money than Windows user, I shouldn't expect worse product, I'm not happy when it turnes out to be... But I don't lash at anyone, as I assume nobody (but my mom) cares for my feelings either. I just do refunds. Why would anyone do anything else...?

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I sometimes feel like I don't belong here. Did you really, guys, play that many of this year's releases to the point you're comfortable with judging them? My backlog is like... 1998. Literally. I'll start Baldur's Gate somewhere in December.

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Quoting: LukeNukemThe Tux icon is fucking hideous though, and scales down like a lump of cow shit does to a rabbit dropping.

Quoting: AnxiousInfusion

Quoting: meggermanI have to admit the logo doesn't scale well. It also looks a bit childish, but what else can we use, a stallman avatar ?

A silhouette of an actual penguin, perhaps?

It's recognisable without a mistake, that's what matters, certainly not looks. And if Valve really wants to, they can style it to whatever extent, as long as it remains a cartoonish penguin that makes it clear it's Linux.

Tux as a logotype is wrong from a marketing standpoint but for an entirely other reason. It has a face. Windows has a cross-frame window, Apple has a bitten apple, Linux... has a face with googly eyes. It's way too complicated, not symbolic enough, reminds too strongly of the actual penguin stealing focus from what it is supposed to represent - it's a mascot, not a logotype. Recently I've seen a step in a tutorial that would be a better logo than the final result:



But I'm against any change at this point. A logotype is good when it's associated with a good product and this is why drastic changes to an established brand will always, and I mean it, always be a bad move [External Link]. Tux can be changed to something more modern over years with baby steps. Anything else will kill the association and make distributions separate from the Linux family in minds of millions of unaware customers.

Quoting: Cheeseness[...] Steam's logo [...] right now using it to indicate optional Linux support is super questionable.

They use it to indicate SteamOS support solely. Many Linux titles lost their SteamOS icon from the store page recently because they don't run on SteamOS (e.g. without a separate launcher).

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Quoting: TheReaperUKI run Manjaro Linux (Stable) and that has 370.28 as the newest, But on friday i upgrading from GTX 960 2gb to a GTX 1060 6gb and really wished i had not, Most of my games run the same or less frames per second than the 960, so i was hoping the 375 driver would help out the 1060 but after reading this topic maybe not then :'(

What's your CPU? I switched from AMD to Intel and easily gained 20 fps in Witcher II without changing GPU.

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Quoting: ZlopezThis is sad, because on Fedora 25 repository, these all only drivers available. So I can't downgrade to previous version.

I guess you can always remove your current driver, download the binary from nvidia's website and just `chmod 755` it, then run. Never failed me in the past.

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Beware of the titles that show up on Humble Bundle after selecting Linux as a platform but don't actually have a Steam Linux package, if you care for this kind of thing (e.g. Shadowgrounds series are available for Linux DRM free but not via Steam).

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Yeah, they fucked me up once again.

Games showing Linux support icon on their profiles but not having Linux support...
Games not showing the icon but actually having the Linux install button available...
Games removed from Steam (no profile page, no icons) but available for anyone who already owned them...
And Steam API doesn't provide something as simple as a list of platforms the given title supports either.

Bitter hello from steamlinuxchecker [External Link] developer.

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Don't worry, guys, if you're below the requirements. You can probably still run it on lower specs (assuming the difference is reasonable) if you minimise other overheads. I've been doing this for years. Developers usually test games on Ubuntu (or other uber-popular but heavy distributions) with full-blown desktop environments, compositors, lots of daemons that eat RAM, etc, and then overstate the requirements to cover the publisher's ass. If you encounter low frame rates try installing something with only a window manager on a separate partition (I'm using Manjaro-i3), load a kernel dedicated for your hardware and slim it down even further by turning off whatever you don't need. If it still doesn't help, try older/newer graphics drivers. All and all, you have a high chance of making it playable.

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