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Torchlight II Now On Linux, Old News By A Day, But Here’s My Report
11 Mar 2015 at 1:42 pm UTC

I'm using the steam-native package. I don't particularly like the idea of Valve littering my machine with libs that are old (and from unofficial sources for all I know). My experience is it normally works better (when it does at all)

President Of Blizzard Responds To The Linux Petition, Petition Owner Creates Childish Response
11 Mar 2015 at 1:34 pm UTC

I would assume most of those people also have access to a Windows or Mac device capable of playing Blizzard games.
Well you know what they say about assumptions :P

A link to our survey would sort this guy out. If he even cares that is.

As for me? I don't care about Blizzard's products anyway and they don't seem eager to change that so 'meh'.

Torchlight II Now On Linux, Old News By A Day, But Here’s My Report
11 Mar 2015 at 4:38 am UTC

I just ran a few hours with STEAM_RUNTIME=1 :P

Both the game and the port are great. Runs decently even on my GT650M. I only noticed stuttering when ganged up on by many monsters with everything turned on. Although in truth the graphics settings screen is underwhelming.

The Entroware 'Proteus' Gaming Laptop, Reviewed For Linux
10 Mar 2015 at 2:03 pm UTC

Is it just me or 1080p for 13.3" is a total overkill?

Torchlight II Now On Linux, Old News By A Day, But Here’s My Report
9 Mar 2015 at 7:58 pm UTC

I can't fire it up with STEAM_RUNTIME=0 on manjaro btw
Causes an assert dump. There's a dbus error in the console

Steam Hardware Survey For February 2015
8 Mar 2015 at 7:41 pm UTC

I actually got it this time around after a hiatus of a year or more. No reinstall required.

Linux 3.10 64 bit
I wonder why SteamOS still uses 3.10 and why it manages to enter the charts contrary to all non-debian distros.

Valve Developed Own Vulkan Driver For Intel, They Demo Dota 2 On Source 2
5 Mar 2015 at 8:47 pm UTC

You can see a slide below outlining a few interesting points:
no, we can't

Steam Now Has Official Hardware Pages On Its Store (UPDATED)
5 Mar 2015 at 8:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

Indeed, Syber Steam Machine I [External Link] seems to make the most sense

Zotac Announces A Proper Steam Machine With SteamOS (Updated)
4 Mar 2015 at 7:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

GeForce GTX 970M is basically GeForce GTX 760 Ti with 3GB RAM