So Unity actually cited Stadia as why they added il2cpp on Linux into their engine. So I guess that’s something, even if it gets us no games which let’s be real it probably won’t.

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Last time I played it I was on KDE and everything worked except one part that requires transparency but I didn't have my compositor turned on at all.

Quoting: callciferOn Windows the game depends pretty heavily on interaction with the desktop environment. Can anyone who tried the Linux version tell us how it works? Is it Gnome only? Or do they use generic XDG stuff (for some features at least)?

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This is the one game that can use the: "There are too many distros to port to" excuse. I compiled and beat it on Linux about a year ago and, very minor spoiler but:

Spoiler, click me

This game heavily depends on the user's desktop environment to function properly.

The fact it's even on linux at all is probably because it is actually open source!

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"Some performance improvements" is not a true statement. I just updated a server from 1.12 to 1.14. Both running on vanilla. And I can confidently say that 1.14 not only requires much more CPU, but it does nothing to improve RAM usage vs 1.12.

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With an HD 615 this thing isn't even going to be able to run rocket league and other low-end titles on low settings. For its price I would have expected Intel iris, an APU, or a low-end mobile Nvidia GPU like the mx150.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: natis1I personally disagree. It's much harder to build Mesa from source on a distro like Ubuntu or openSUSE than Arch or Gentoo.

How exactly is it harder?

For starters, Gentoo includes git versions of all packages in its repos so no need to git clone, ./configure, make, make install anything manually. Arch does something similar with its aur.

More importantly though, when you build a package from source using a git repository as the source on Arch that package is tracked by your package manager and can be updated along with the rest of your system (pacaur -Syu --devel). As far as I know, Debian and variants lets you build a package from source, but doesn't automatically keep it up to date. If you install Mesa git but never update it it will quickly fall behind the fixed release version.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeAlso, even with the open source stuff, you have to try and get latest Mesa on your system, and that's generally a pretty major thing to do on many of the binary distributions (not so bad on something like Arch.)

It's only as major as you are not yet familiar with building Mesa from source. Once you learn that, it's noting major, just compilation time.

I personally disagree. It's much harder to build Mesa from source on a distro like Ubuntu or openSUSE than Arch or Gentoo. Thankfully, you can get around this by using PPAs/ "1 click installers" which can provide binary versions of mesa git.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Xpanderi upgrade the nvidia driver all the time when latest version comes out, yet i have only been getting a survey prompt 3 times during all those years steam on linux.

heck i have gotten more surveys when i launched steam in wine and that happens super rarely

Exactly the same here.

IDK I updated and downgraded the Nvidia driver to about 9 different versions trying to fix a problem with Torchlight 2 and half way through doing that my computer got a survey (it was the middle of the month and I had launched steam plenty of times before). Naturally though, I've gotten probably about 3 surveys on Linux in 2 years across 3 computers which is 0.5 surveys per computer-year, but I've definitely been luckier than the average Linux user.

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I wonder what portion of the Steam survey is answered by card farming "bots." Hell, I wonder if answering the survey even matters at all? Maybe choosing no gives it to another person with the exact same hardware/software setup as you (it would explain why Linux users seem to get fewer surveys since they are more eager to answer them).

Also updating or downgrading Nvidia driver version at least on Linux can cause the steam survey to retrigger on Linux (and there's probably similar problems on Windows too) so it's not exactly a hard survey to "game."

More and more the Steam survey becomes a statistical anomaly compared to other surveying methods. If this was 538 it would have a very low credibility rating because of this.

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Wow. I've never thought I would buy a console. Especially not one made by Atari. But I'm actually tempted to depending on how much control it gives me.

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