I am an old Buffy fan so I got this after reading the review and comments here.
Only played it for 30 minutes so far but seems like good fun, and yes the steam controller works just out of the box.

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Only Relic Entertainment and SEGA are shown as publisher on the game info when you click on them in that bundle.
So I am not sure Feral gets something from that sale even if they get counted as Linux sales.

I would love an updated article on GOL regarding buying Linux games on different shops, and when they get counted as Linux sales, and when the porter companies with their own publishing like Feral in this case get a cut of the sale.

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Really nice with day 1 Linux support and that trailer makes me want to play the game:-)
But I wait for some reviews before buying it, or a demo.

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As a Linux gamer with 100 games in my library looking for a new game I would not assign a 1/2400 chance to the other available games and choose randomly., I will also not read up on reviews of them all. What i do is to choose among those that got my attention somehow. Thiis site for once and the reddit for gaming on linux are a big influence that windows gamers wont read, I wouldnt be surpised if SOMA gets more Linux sales proportionaly than Windows sales from this news. They got mine after reading comments here and on Reddit

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GOG has the update too now. I have not tried it yet, just saw it when I logged into GOG today.

From https://www.gog.com/forum/victor_vran/changelog [External Link] :

Changelog for Patch 2.07 / GOG-17 (Windows) / GOG-11 (Linux) (added 15 September 2016):

The Mac version will updated soon.

- New Features: Local Coop
- New Localization: Chinese (Simplified)
- Added dynamic resolution option
- Fixed black screen issue with recent NVIDIA driver update
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

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Quoting: t3g

Quoting: STiATI doubt that any game supporting Vulkan will come out any time soon, since drivers of the Ubuntu LTS are not up for it (NVidia 304.131)

The 367 drivers (stable Vulkan support) will make their way into the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 repos soon and will replace 361 according to this xenial-proposed entry [External Link] on Launchpad.

I'm also guessing they will be available to install either before or when Ubuntu 16.04.2 gets released as an ISO at the end of this year or in February 2017.

That sounds good, and the current 16.04 LTS has 361.42 so its not as old as STiAT wrote who still must be on 14.04

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Quoting: DeMDon't think SteamOS is perfect for Steam Machines. I own which is probably the most popular, an Alienware Steam Machine, and the last stable SteamOS version (2.87) has broken it down with the well-known Fatal Error loop. From what I've read, the bug has been solved in the 2.88 beta, so I have 3 choices:

1- Opt for the beta.

Problem: as it's not easy to opt out of the beta, if a future beta broke the system, I'd be forced to perform a complete reinstallation.

2- Remain in 2.64 and wait until 2.88 is stable.

Problem: I must be careful not to upgrade the system. Otherwise, the only solution would be a complete reinstallation.

3- Opt for the Liam's solution and use a different distro.

Problem: This solution is, in fact, a complete reinstallation itself. In my case, it's be archlinux, as it's what I use both in my PC and my tablet.

I bougth a Steam Machine because I didn't want to customize anything. I wanted a gaming linux PC as easy to use as a PS or an XBOX. Honestly, I'm dissapointed with SteamOS, I expected an extremely stable OS, solid as a rock.

I have a Alienware steammachine too, and luckily did not have any problems, maybe because I opted out of the steam beta when they stopped nagging about that and never used the SteamOS beta.

Did you maybe have the steam beta opted in?

Anyway you should think again about opting in to the SteamOS beta. The problematic thing about opting out again is that it wont go back to the last stable but that you have to wait for the next stable release to catch up. But that sounds like it is just what you need.

You could also try the manual fixes described here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/542 [External Link]

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Quoting: liamdaweSteamOS is practically the same as SBP.

Thats not exactly true, please see the SteamOS FAQ from Valve: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395741989999/ [External Link]
Especially:

Q: What is SteamOS? SteamOS is a fork (derivative) of Debian [www.debian.org] GNU/Linux.

and

Q: What software runs on SteamOS?
SteamOS is designed to run Steam and Steam games. It also provides a desktop mode which can run regular Linux applications

So SteamOS is a Linux distribution like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora etc, and Steam (including the BPM it starts on bootup) is not considered a part of the OS.
Steam on SteamOS is the same Steam installed on other Linux Distributions, and has its selfupdater, it is not updated with SteamOS, but on its own schedule independently.
This might be considered nitpicking but I find it important to distiguish between those two in a discussion about the update of one of them, and a question about features of the other:-)

And Liam could you maybe not call it "released" when they update the beta? I find that confusing, Valve themselves only call it release when they come with non beta updates.

Quoting: PicoboomCan y'all tell me if Big Picture in SteamOS has the shortcomings of BPM in the client?

I've used the desktop client to workaround BPM's limited display of my wishlist and inability to access settings from the overlay, But the recent discovery that I can't group chat in BPM has me starting to look into longer term alternatives.

Is SteamOS better than BPM in these regards?

There is one difference between Steams BPM under SteamOS copmapred to otehr distributions, but thats due to the way it is started and not because its a different version.
You can not easily switch to the windowed mode of Steam, you have to start a desktop first, then in a command window:
sudo killall -9 steam
sudo steam
steam
This will start steam regularly, either in windowed mode or in bigpicturemode, but with an option to go to windowed mode then.
Not ideal but I do not have to switch to windowed mode that often so I kept the standard configuration to start in BPM on my steam machine. And if you do use thew windowed mode often that counts against switching to SteamOS until they provide a better way.

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Quoting: melkemindI'm getting "missing executable." Does anyone know a fix?

I had that first too, then a bit later there was another download and I can play the game now.
So just wait until the download server for your region has it, probably wont be long

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Quoting: FredOIt's not launching with the Nvidia 358.16 driver, so I guess they're serious about needing 364.12. Looks like I'm upgrading...

On SteamOS it does launch with 355.00.28 and looks good on my alienware steammachine. I only played a little bit though so far.

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