Look forward to giving this game another try again soon now it has vulkan as I have not played this for a long time. Currently glued to Satisfactory atm:smile: so will play this one next.

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I will check this out and see if they ship to UK. I really need a high end reliable laptop that just works under Linux. If it has decent Cooling,CPU and GFX then I am all in if the price is reasonable.

I may just get rid of my Acer Predator AMD/Vega Laptop as its been a complete letdown under Linux due to AMD's horrible driver stack of which I have been waiting over 1 year for a fix. I get constant no AC power issues and GPU crashes with it so its impossible to game with under Linux. Will NEVER buy Acer products again, Ever.

I got this laptop because AMD was supposed to be better than NVIDIA. Please dont believe the hype.

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Why is it so difficult to understand that we are small fish in a very large ocean and AAA devs will not support us until we increase our marketshare. Proton will greatly help windows user to migrate over to Linux when they choose to as this will enable them to keep access to their games library. No one wants to loose a ton of games so this issue MUST be addressed first in order to gain marketshare.

Buying windows games through steam count as a linux sale so any sales analyst will see that (X) number of sales were from Linux users and this could influence their decision to support linux going forward if sales were high enough.

As long as you follow some simple rules then you will be helping Linux to grow.

1. Always prioritise Linux games first.
2. Only buy Windows games at a discount and play them via steam after checking proton db for their rating.
3. leave a message on their forum asking politely for a Linux port or Proton support.
4. Try to help new Linux users where possible.

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GRRR. I feel I was denied critical, Neeeeeeeed to know, Information.

I have dropped £60 this week on Games/DLC and now a steam sale appears.:sick:

Guess I have no option but to check out the wishlist which has 100 games on it.

Gaben, Why do you always do this to me.:)

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I didn't know they were so cheap

I have never used one but I may now look into getting one to use as an emulator at those prices. I have also seen a few sweet custom cases on YouTube that are build to fit so may get one of these also.

Thanks for the heads up.

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The biggest issue with any PC exclusive is that the game in question is locked to a specific launcher. If I could use any launcher or no launcher at all to download and play the game then the affect would be minimal. With EPIC for example, All Linux users are locked out before even entering the gates.

Back in the day you would buy a game on disk so you were not reliant on store fronts. Once you had the game in your possession you were free to do as you wish whereas now you are relying on a launcher to just play the game.

with the recent events with EPIC and Canonical as well as all these new steaming services appearing I am reviewing my purchasing habits as I have grave concerns that I may soon loose access to a lot of my games. If SHTF I will have no option but to sail the high seas and try to salvage every game that I own to archive which at present is nearly 400 games. I really don't want to have to deal with that.

We do need competition in the marketplace and I welcome it but I would ask all publishers to play fair and put the gamers interest first. Why not work together to create a free, open and universal store front and share the burden in exchange for a lower cut.

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Correct me if I am wrong but surly freezing the library would make it impossible to use newer GFX drivers.

I plan to upgrade my ryzen desktop CPU soon and may consider Navi GPU further down the line. How am I supposed to get the latest drivers if the packages are frozen?

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I am off to the shop to grab some popcorn:D as this is going to be fun to watch.

So I see this is the first step in the eventual backtrack however the damage has already been done. I have removed Ubuntu from my laptop and put Manjaro on it for now until Valve decide what to do next.

Canonical, Please get your house in order.

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Well that was fast but not unexpected.:O

I think this will turn out to be a great opportunity moving forward as Valve are unlikely to make the same mistake again in relying on a single distro. Whatever distro they decide to choose will be going onto my Acer Predator (AMD) laptop but I do hope (personal bias) they decide to support a rolling disro as its easier to get the latest GFX drivers/Kernels.

I have also not seen any mention of Valves VR efforts and how canonicals short sightedness could affect this initiative in the short term.

I do hope that the whole community bands together with Valve and create something special that will benefit all of us.

Think positive.:)

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Here is the current breakdown of steam Linux users from the hardware survey.

Linux
0.84%

Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 64 bit
0.20%
Linux 64 bit
0.08%
"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit
0.07%
Ubuntu 19.04 64 bit
0.07%
Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa 64 bit
0.06%

Doesn't really help with what to recommend to new users as these are all based on Ubuntu apart from Manjaro. About 50% of the total userbase must be using other distros.

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