Quoting: pbThat's true. I have SteamOS and Arch. If something doesn't work on Arch, I first check if it works on SteamOS before bothering the devs. Sometimes it's the other way round, in that case it's worth reporting, as all games on steam should work on Ubuntu and SteamOS as they're official target platforms. Also it's something else to report a bug and to seek for help in the forums. The latter I think is ok regardless of the distro you're running, but you should state it loud and clear. Bug reports should only refer to supported platforms.

I think this is especially important for smaller indie releases, as they can't afford to put too many resources into bug-fixing too many distros.
It can also overwhelm developers who are new to linux gaming.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI heard the game was quite short story wise, like 6hrs or something.

I might wait until it hits $15usd or something .

I'd say it's at least 20 hours long, which is short by some crpg standards. According to Steam, I spent over 40 hours on my first playthrough, but I tend to take longer completing games than than most do.

Colour me excited for this. I hope its story content, because Tyranny was a great game and it's spell mechanics and story are just screaming for a continuation.

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That's a cool idea. I wonder if this will lead to different audiences taking a look at GamingOnLinux.

But now I have two RSS feeds to check for news. Is there any chance we could have a combined RSS feed for the two sites?

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I'm waiting for AMD to either open the PSP, allow the user to disable the PSP or at least for Ryzen to become coreboot compatible. Aside from that, Ryzen looks awesome.

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This seems like a bad precedent for Linux gaming.

I agree that porters should get paid; but one of the biggest things we have going for us as a growing platform, is the access to one's old games when hopping over to Linux. If separate OS sales were standard or widespread practice, we wouldn't gone nearly as far as we have now.
I certainly wouldn't want Bethesda to start releasing all of their games separately per client. That could badly entrench people further into their OS of choice - or switch people back to Windows.

Maybe it is still best for the occasional port or game to go this route of separating OS sales. I honestly don't know.

I think maybe it might be best to just release some sort of "Tux DLC" when these late ports happen. Support the porter with a DLC purchase and get a Tux cosmetic, item or something, like TF2 had during it's beta test.

Another thought occurred to me.
While separating the game like this will most likely help with sales and income, would it perhaps be better to focus on keeping the game OS-agnostic and reap the benefits of a larger linux market further down the road?

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Be warned Liam, finishing Half-Life 2 and not having Half-Life 3 is okay, but finishing the episodes and not having Half-Live 3 is tough.

EDIT: I still recommend playing the episodes though, since they are great. The last hour or so of episode 2 is my favourite part of the whole series.

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Quoting: DoItOnLinuxShameless self plug here, but I spent hours trying to get Linux SR3 to co-op with Windows SR3 (and co-op in general without crashing straight up) and I wrote the fix up here; http://doitonlinux.blogspot.com/2017/01/saints-row-3-crashing-in-multiplayer.html [External Link]

Yep, this seems to have solved the irregular crashing me and a buddy had. The ingame voice was set to push button, so we probably brushed the button at times.

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Oooh thanks for making me aware of this, Liam. I just tried it and had a blast.
If anyone one else is having problems with the screen flickering weirdly; I first fixed it by disabling fullscreen. Then I got fullscreen back, by deactivating "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows".
This was on Ubuntu 16.04. I Guess Dune Legacy requires composition to work.

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Why does the Linux version require 67-70GB when the Windows version only requires 45-55gb?
Anyway, this is absolutely awesome. I can't wait to get this game.

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Quoting: liamdaweI imagine you're connecting to them right? If so, it's likely Linux to Linux is what's broken. You're the only person I've ever seen say it works.

Yeah, he's been hosting. It must be Linux to Linux and maybe also Linux hosting, then.

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