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Steam hits another record of over 18.5 million concurrent users online
7 Jan 2018 at 12:38 pm UTC

Quoting: Ehvis
The list fluctuates of course and it would be better if PUBG supported Linux, but sadly that feels like a dream right now.
Wasn't it the ceo who said they want to bring pubg to every platform conceivable? I'm pretty sure he did not have Linux in mind, but you could try to hold them to that. :D
He is not considering Linux as a platform i guess. Next targets for them would be PS4 and Switch.

I don't think they would port it to MacOS either because they can't provide performance with it.

Steam hits another record of over 18.5 million concurrent users online
7 Jan 2018 at 12:35 pm UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickDoes PUBG work through wine?
Nope. BattleEye is not working with Wine.

The Jackbox Party Pack 2 & 3 are both now in Beta for Linux
4 Jan 2018 at 9:06 pm UTC

Quoting: AnanaceOh wow, I didn't think it would be possible for me to be happier with Jackbox Games.

I don't suppose anyone knows if they have somewhere where you can just arbitrarily throw money at them? Already own the packs in question after all, so hard to show my appreciation through that.
Buy another one and gift it to some Linux user friend you know?

The PS3 emulator 'RPCS3' has a new development report out, progress is great
4 Jan 2018 at 7:25 pm UTC Likes: 5

This cult classic and in the shadow of the popular title NieR Automata saw major improvements to graphics this month thanks to a combination of different fixes by kd-11. Previously it had broken lighting, wrong colors, and sometimes missing graphics. All of this is fixed now and, at least at a glance, the game looks just fine. In fact, performance is improved as well and it is certainly possible to basically perform like a real PS3 in the range of 20 – 30 FPS at this point, given a modern CPU with AVX 2 and TSX support. Except this is only partially true. See, the above screenshots were taken on Linux, and the game indeed performs as shown there. However for the same user with the same hardware, and really everyone else too, performance is only about a third of this on Windows. This was investigated by kd-11 but no conclusions could quickly be drawn as to why this is the case. In general RPCS3 performs roughly the same on Windows and Linux, though it is known that some games can run a few percent faster on Linux due to the nature of the operating system. That there is such a massive difference in Nier is unexplainable for now though.
A glorious moment.

Joking aside , i hope they can fix the Windows side.

Ultraball, a free multiplayer sci-fi action sports game will be coming to Linux
4 Jan 2018 at 5:38 pm UTC

Quoting: MayeulCIt reminds me of some other games, such as speedball 2: tournament, for example, or blood ball (none of which are on Linux, sadly, so hopefully this will fill the niche).

Now, I feel an urge to play bombing run on ut2004, somehow... :D
(be sure to add the ut collection to your wishlist, so that id can see there's a demand for it on Linux !)
Unreal Tournament is not id's though. It belongs to Epic.

The Steam Hardware Survey for December 2017 shows a reasonable increase for Linux
2 Jan 2018 at 8:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GustyGhost
Quoting: LeopardI didn't get a single survey in 2017 , got one on 2016.
In my experience, you get them often if you constantly build and change computers, test hardware configurations, reinstall OSes. Something about big sweeping changes probably, but I could be wrong.
I don't think so because i bought this laptop 4 months ago. I wanted to install Windows 10 on it because of Nvidia Geforce Experience Rocket League gift.

I installed Win on it , then installed Geforce Experience. When i installed and opened Steam i got a survey. I closed it of course.

When i get gift and added it to Steam , i installed Mint on it and deleted Windows. I installed Steam and i didn't get a survey.

Then i had this problem and Feral suggested me to install Ubuntu , to see if that makes a difference.

https://github.com/FeralInteractive/ferallinuxscripts/issues/6 [External Link]

With Ubuntu , i didn't get a survey too , my problem appeared on Ubuntu too and because of i don't like Ubuntu ( although i'm using Mint ) i wiped Ubuntu and installed Mint again.

I didn't get a survey again. So i installed two Linux distro and didn't get a survey , i installed Windows only once and got a survey.

Valve hands out VAC bans for having 'catbot' in your Linux username (updated: they're not)
2 Jan 2018 at 2:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Mountain ManYeah... I don't buy this. Someone got busted for using cheat software and is trying to fight it with a lame excuse.
You were right , article updated !

The Steam Hardware Survey for December 2017 shows a reasonable increase for Linux
2 Jan 2018 at 12:27 pm UTC

I didn't get a single survey in 2017 , got one on 2016.

Valve hands out VAC bans for having 'catbot' in your Linux username (updated: they're not)
1 Jan 2018 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Alm888
Quoting: jensWhy don't you just stay out of this discussion then?
I dunno… Why should I?
If someone finds it completely acceptable to tell on behalf of everyone what we can and what we can not afford, then I have all rights to say what I think myself. :P

Quoting: LeopardSame old GOG lovers…
Thank you. Your opinion is very important to us. :whistle:
But honestly, what has GOG to do with this news? And, BTW, all your post can be "corrected" by substituting "GOG" with "Valve" and it will remain being "correct".
If it isn't important , then don't quote it and don't put effort to reply.

I wonder what GOG done for Linux exactly if you say it will remain correct if we replace Valve with GOG.

Work on drivers , X.org , Vulkan , Wayland?
Pushing Linux as a viable platform?
Bringing VR to it?

I'm not a Valve lover but i want to support them by using their store because they support Linux , unlike GOG.

Valve hands out VAC bans for having 'catbot' in your Linux username (updated: they're not)
1 Jan 2018 at 5:53 pm UTC Likes: 15

Same old GOG lovers taking their chance to attack Valve , with forgetting being thankful to Valve.

Also a note ; GOG and CDPR doesn't like Linux as half as your love towards them.

Sometimes i wish to turn back to these dark days, before 2013. Valve does not deserve these kind of treatment.