I can't comment on the guy's views, since I do not know him personally. But I think the FSF has done good work in the past and I do trust that these people have a good judgement (at least when it comes to FOSS)

I considered this occasion a nice reminder to support the FSF with a small donation

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I've had a rather bad experience trying to get Fedora running on my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet, at least from the Lenovo side of things. All the response we've been getting on the Lenovo forum for issues related to this machine with Fedora is "This device is not supported".

Hopefully they'll start to actually support their devices with Fedora on them.

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If it's really about the tweet... Then GOG has won a lot of sympathy with me. Might even start buying some games over there.

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I'm curious to see how this is gonna reflect on the Steam HW survey... So far Linux gamers playing on wine have always counted as windows. Now they're apparently properly counted as Linux. So maybe we see a spike there too.

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2006, Here we come!

It's still nice to see they're making the move. I think the only 32 bit systems left out there using steam would be Raspberries used for in home streaming. So hopefully they don't break support completely.

But I don't think any CPU able to run the most basic of games nowadays has a 32 bit processor. You'd have to go all the way back to Pentium 4, Athlon or Atom to even find one. Doesn't seem likely anyone is still gaming on those.

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At least they have properly announced and seem on track. I would rather hate it if they kept announcing they intend to keep a single player mode just for it to be a shallow and boring mess.

I also hadn't heard about this guys. But it seems like $1.45 seems like a must-try price tag for the old one. Hope they don't keep the penguins waiting for too long!

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I respect and support Lakka / Libretro. But, I am uncertain what they're trying to achieve here. And I'm not 100% sure if they know themselves.

On one hand they say stuff like: This is final and not subject to change. Bribes are not going to work, donations are not going to work, pledges are not going to work.

And then they comment on the same post with: As long as our software's license and terms are being respected, we are willing to ally and collaborate with people, including the party involved (if they intend on doing things by the book the second time around). But we cannot let wilfull violations of Lakka's license go unanswered. We are forced to act then.

It seems like they're building a great piece of software that people want to use, and then prevent people from shipping it with their hardware. It's as if Google started suing companies for building Android smartphones and required everyone to flash the device when they bought it.

Again, I do understand that they're pissed about people abusing their license. But they're apparently not being specially approachable about the issue either.

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Quoting: liamdawe[...]We aren't better than others, that's just not looking outside the circle there.

I need to once more disagree.

Let's just assume that the average Linux user is not more likely to have some coding / IT background and therefore be more likely to find their own solution, get help from a user within the community or even providing a patch to the devs instead of taking it to the forums to rant about it.

Assuming this, you said we still do have a bunch of trolls and haters in the community. I would fail to see how having Ubuntu installed on your system directly correlates to customer entitlement.

My personal experience with Linux users, and judging from this video from Bryan Lunduke (around minute 23 he talks about Steam) I'm not alone with this impression, we're thankful for every release and tend to be more grateful for every game we get than any other community.

View video on youtube.com

Yes, we're just the .87% on Steam and therefore devs are way less likely to put up with harsh criticism / complaints / bug reports from us than they're willing to take from a Windows crowd. And I understand that if you get three issues with your windows port and 2 with your Linux port that it seems like a bad investment for the publisher... But in the end, the Linux user pays $60 just as the Windows person does and therefore deserves to expect the same product.

Again, this is a nuanced discussion. There's no black or white - but the picture the devs paint is often oversimplified too.

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I personally would like to differ from your opinion here. I know that some Linux users are little brats who run around making silly demands - but I think that most developers would recognize that we're the better bunch overall. Most of the Linux users know how to properly report bugs and seem the most keen on helping when compared to a Windows user base.

The amount of backlash games get when they release a poor Windows port is awfully hard, and most Linux users are happy and joyful when the damn thing boots and makes it past the menu title. If we look at the amount of hate and flack Ubisoft gets for their half baked Assassins Creed releases, the PC port of Arkham City, or take a look at the reception of No man's sky you will see how harsh a Windows / Mac / Console crowd can be.

I don't wanna excuse a negative attitude towards a developer, because it doesn't help any party involved. But saying that it's excusable to claim "they were mean" and stop supporting it is rather silly IMO. After all, every angry email they got was from a customer who had paid for the full experience and wasn't getting it.

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My 2¢ on this issue. I don't know how to feel about this. I personally think that (with all due respect) the dev is making a bad decision. Linux is growing stronger as a platform every day, if I had told myself 10 years ago that I would be able to live Windows free I wouldn't have believed myself.

I do understand why, on the short term, the investment into Linux as a platform seems bad for somebody making games. But Linux is there, and AFAIK there's no major game-breaking differences between most of the major distros. I have always had consistent issues between Debian, Elementary, Fedora and SteamOS - if a game worked on one, they usually work on the rest and vice-versa.

Nowadays people moving to the Linux ecosystem are less likely than ever to come back. Linux is stable, more often than not bug free, solid and provides a good range of software. Companies like Feral making a living proves that Linux now is a viable business. And considering that most game-devs develop for a series of platforms anyway, it shouldn't be a problem to develop platform agnostic games that can be ported fairly "easy".

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