This sounds awesome.

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Nice guide, I wrote similar one for Fedora Silverblue - https://fedoramagazine.org/set-up-fedora-silverblue-gaming-station/ [External Link]

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I'm also a supporter, I really liked their game Reus and this really caught my eye on Kickstarter. And now I see that my money were good invested.

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As a Fedora user and full-time developer I'm glad to hear that Fedora is mentioned as one of the distributions providing great gaming desktop experience.

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Quoting: ShmerlGreat to hear about Valve working closely with more distros! And especially backing efforts to improve desktop experience. I suppose the recent KDE/KWin work announcement is related to that.

Can you remind me what that KDDe kwin stuff was about ?

KWin is windows manager for KDE, the changes will introduce better handling of games in fullscreen and address issues with game windows.

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This looks like a very relaxing Settlers like game.

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Quoting: MaathI don't understand why Linux fragmentation is an issue. First, should the Linux Standard Base have largely homogenized Linux distributions to reduce such potential issues? Secondly, why isn't there an official "standard" distribution? I think Arch (and perhaps Linux From Scratch) try to minimize making any changes to the libraries and core software packages from the original developers, so it seems like that should be considered the "default" Linux desktop configuration. Deviation from the default should be the onus of the distribution, not the game developer.

I can understand a binary software release needing access to a software library not normally available on a system. In those cases, just statically link the library in. Since this is not open source software, we're already outside the scope of code reuse, and besides, it's not like people are firing up several games at once, so the image bloat isn't really an issue.

Also the distribution in Flatpak or Snap can solve most of the issues with fragmentation or distributing the game over Steam also solves plenty of issues with fragmentation.

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Quoting: monyarmOne thing i'm still confused about, will the Devs who release Stadia versions release those version for the general Linux gaming public ? Or will they stat just on Stadia ?

The devs will probably only target the Stadia hardware and Ubuntu distribution and most of them will not release it on Linux, because of the fear of bad performance on other hardware, distributions (things, they need to pottentialy address).

But this is only my own opinion.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotIn other words they'll quit working on this one soon. Remember their big "Game and all DLC we'll ever release if you pre-order now" deal? Yeah, that's like three small pieces of DLC and you can get everything by buying that final edition as well? Probably soon at a lower price? Yes, that and that the game is pretty bad is why it's the last time I've fallen for something like that.

I don't know if you can say that the game is bad. I for change enjoyed the game, but it is really different from anything I played before. There are plenty of things you need to watch and you can get pretty lost sometimes, but it's always rewarding when you open up something new you didn't knew about before.

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I played the "Kingdom Classic" and it was really nice game. This looks interesting.

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Quoting: ShmerlQA costs a lot more than you might think.

Yes, QA is very costly. But if the Google could provide some testing machines, that could run your tests, you could at least some QA to your customers. But this depends on Google itself, if it wouldn't want to promote Linux gaming and only support Stadia, this will not be the case.

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