You know how Linux is a community effort? The devs could've reached out to the community and gotten together with a few techies on a private feedback environment (privated Discord channel, whatever) and gotten help from people who play the game on Linux who might know exactly what the bugs are and how to fix them.
Even if the players in question don't know immediately how to fix it, there are enough helpful Linux users who can link to stackexchange or other sites where similar problems have occured to steer the devs onto the right path.
By fixing cross-platform bugs, the whole codebase should be more stable overall and potential for future gamebreaking bugs are mitigated.

I'll be ignoring that title myself.

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My word, GoG actually has the Linux version. What a new age we live in... :)

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I linked this article to a friend of mine, but they wondered how it fits in Square Enix' ruling against using third party tools?
They linked me to a video about that; https://youtu.be/DBBcTa8esps [External Link]

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I highly recommend Minetest (with the "MineClone 2" mod if you really want to have the Minecraft experience) instead of this game.

The forced migration to Microsoft accounts leaves a bad taste and the general tactics of the company which now owns Minecraft makes me worry it's going to drop Java-edition soon enough and force migration to Bedrock.

Best find an alternative now, and Minetest is pretty decent.

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Since Humble Bundle is trying to alienate Linux users, I don't want to give them more money.

They have successfully lost me as a customer.

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I don't like the way Valve has been treating Linux recently.

Ethan has recently asked about game developers being approached by Valve for making their products run Proton instead of having a native Linux version, and that's honestly despicable from Valve, if you ask me. (Source: https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/1416118465442852869 [External Link] )

SteamOS has not been updated in... forever. The repositories are a sad sight to see. And now they have SteamOS 3.0 for the Steam Deck, based on Arch, but how does that relate to the desktop version of SteamOS and will there be an updated repository (for the Steam Deck)? Nobody knows.

I'm not an Arch user myself, so I don't know how that stuff works. If you want to drop a new user onto any flavour of Linux, I tend to prefer Debian and its related family of distros such as Mint and *buntu since their binary setup with a .deb-based package manager makes it fairly consistent to help people across the distro family, even if *buntu makes it a bit weird with PPAs and whatnot.

I once made the mistake of trying out Gentoo when just learning about Linux and that was a jump into the deep that I can't recommend unless you pick things up fast or have masochistic tendencies. (j/k :D)

I'm not sure the Steam Deck will do for Linux what we hope it does. There needs to be synchronous updates for SteamOS that actually go beyond Steam Deck so people can have their handheld experience be similar to what they can install on their desktop, laptop, or other computing device at home to help the adoption of Linux as a whole in a household. Just having a dock that allows using the Steam Deck as a mini-computer is not going to be the end-all fix.

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I love the dedication these guys have when it concerns their game. Unfortunately, as noted in the article, they have been too quiet about Linux if you ask me. I dropped Pripyatbeast and the company account both a question about it recently which didn't get a response, and until they update their store pages on GOG and Steam to list Linux system requirements, I've put it on the list of "windows-only" games for now.

Note that the original games and the enhanced are also listed as Windows only on Steam. Excepting System Shock 2 which also has Mac support. So I'm not expecting a Linux release unless it's made abundantly clear by them that they're working on it.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: DerpFoxI understand GamerOS is not perfect, but the new one doesn't make any sense at all.

Well, "Gamer" sounds kind of similar to "Chimer(a)" without people immediately noticing it.

Chimer? Weren't those the ancient dark elves from Elder Scrolls lore? What do they know about gaming? ;)

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I've been unable to tell if Nvidia allows GPU passthrough in their newer drivers yet. Does anyone know if it works now? I've been wanting to VM some older systems and run games on them for streaming purposes but so far no luck on a Nvidia card due to their GPU passthrough block.

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Quoting: robredz

Quoting: MakiI'm still thinking EEE was a thing, might still be a thing, and the last thing I'd want to subject any computer to is a M$ browser... Edge might not be as bad as IE once was, but I honestly wouldn't know as I will not give it a second glance even if paid to do so. I'd need to read the source code first.

Its mainly Chrome underneath isn't it? I won't be bothering with it, Its too much Bing for me.

No, Chrome itself is based on the open source Chromium project.
Microsoft did the same thing Google did; adding their own telemetry and branding on top of the open source project, closing the source, and then releasing just the binaries.
So we can't even easily see what they did exactly.
The last thing I want is ANYTHING on my system reporting my activities to Redmond.

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