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Linux market-share on Steam dropped 0.08% in December 2016
15 Jan 2017 at 2:16 pm UTC Likes: 1
It's not everyone's pleasure to fight with problems, when someone just wants to play. Even people who are busy with Linux bugs all the time want to switch off from time to time. We have to accept that.
Valves type of survey is pretty okay.
If you want to be a Linux gamer, then you have to play under Linux.
15 Jan 2017 at 2:16 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: GuestAnd for the "Windows with dual-booting to Linux", it can also have a statistics on how much time is spent on the 2 OS'es.One of my colleagues is a real Linux professional. He uses Debian unstable for many years and is one of the few people who track down and report really tricky errors and bugs for the rest of us, also in the middle of the night. I ask him whenever I have tough Linux issues. And even though he does everything under Linux and has enormous knowledge, he plays exclusively under Windows, which in turn does not mean that he might not log in with his Steam Client on Linux from time to time, maybe for testing something.
It's not everyone's pleasure to fight with problems, when someone just wants to play. Even people who are busy with Linux bugs all the time want to switch off from time to time. We have to accept that.
Valves type of survey is pretty okay.
If you want to be a Linux gamer, then you have to play under Linux.
Linux market-share on Steam dropped 0.08% in December 2016
15 Jan 2017 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 1
https://www.olivere.de/download/images/blog/steam/hw_survey_wine.png [External Link]
Is in German but you can see easily that Valve recognizes Wine as Wine:
"Hersteller: The Wine Project"
"Modell: Wine"
If you are using dual boot instead, you are, of course, counted as Windows users. By the way: Doom 2016 runs excellent under Wine 2.0. I use it under Ubuntu 16.10 with Nvidia binary driver 375.20. For Vulkan I had to install:
Thats all! After this no tearing, no problems, just Doom. :)
So I think dual-boot people should consider from time to time if they could use wine.
EDIT: Had an issue with graphics quality. Need more investigation.
15 Jan 2017 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: GuestI don't know if it was already discussed or brought up before, but how does Steam take into account Steam users / accounts who dual-boots with Windows and Linux? Do they count it as Windows user?This was shown to me during the survey:
I think Valve should have a separate statistics for Windows users who also dual-boots with Linux. There are probably Linux gamers who use Windows for games only available on Windows.
https://www.olivere.de/download/images/blog/steam/hw_survey_wine.png [External Link]
Is in German but you can see easily that Valve recognizes Wine as Wine:
"Hersteller: The Wine Project"
"Modell: Wine"
If you are using dual boot instead, you are, of course, counted as Windows users. By the way: Doom 2016 runs excellent under Wine 2.0. I use it under Ubuntu 16.10 with Nvidia binary driver 375.20. For Vulkan I had to install:
sudo apt-get install libvulkan-dev libvulkan1 vulkan-utilsThats all! After this no tearing, no problems, just Doom. :)
So I think dual-boot people should consider from time to time if they could use wine.
EDIT: Had an issue with graphics quality. Need more investigation.
Linux market-share on Steam dropped 0.08% in December 2016
15 Jan 2017 at 12:44 am UTC
15 Jan 2017 at 12:44 am UTC
Today I started steam over wine (for Doom 2016) since a long time and got promptly a survey. :)
Coincidence I think but can't remember when my last survey was. After all wine is recognized by steam as wine.
Coincidence I think but can't remember when my last survey was. After all wine is recognized by steam as wine.
Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers
8 Jan 2017 at 8:04 pm UTC
8 Jan 2017 at 8:04 pm UTC
I hope in a year all games will run with mesa. Realistic? You would have much more choice with the graphics cards. I think AMD is bringing some interesting cards to the market this year.
Wine Staging updated, allows you to play DOOM on Linux
22 Dec 2016 at 11:48 am UTC
22 Dec 2016 at 11:48 am UTC
liamdawe: "The developers have now removed Denuvo, making this possible"
Does this mean the wine developers or the developers of Doom?
Does this mean the wine developers or the developers of Doom?
32-bit Linux distributions are no longer supported by Steam, Steam Web Browser disabled
19 Dec 2016 at 8:42 pm UTC
http://askubuntu.com/questions/686214/how-do-i-get-a-steam-controller-working [External Link]
19 Dec 2016 at 8:42 pm UTC
Quoting: MblackwellCheck for a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-steam-controller-perms.rulesI've found a solution. Under Ubuntu the rules which came with the steam-devices package are just incomplete. This works for me:
For some reason my rules ended up getting copied there and that copy overrides the one in /lib/udev/.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/686214/how-do-i-get-a-steam-controller-working [External Link]
32-bit Linux distributions are no longer supported by Steam, Steam Web Browser disabled
18 Dec 2016 at 12:39 am UTC
18 Dec 2016 at 12:39 am UTC
It also seems to disable usb support on my steam client. Ubuntu yakkety (16.10). I see messages like this in the steam error log when I plug in a device:
No matter if it is a headset or the steam controller. So the steam controller can't work any more. I've installed the package steam-devices. My /lib/udev/rules.d/99-steam-controller-perms.rules:
I've a 64 Bit system (i7 6700k).
EDIT: I don't know if this has something to do with this update. At the moment I don't know what the problem is. My Controller runs perfectly on a older steam client on the same system.
Unable to open local device: 0001:000b:01No matter if it is a headset or the steam controller. So the steam controller can't work any more. I've installed the package steam-devices. My /lib/udev/rules.d/99-steam-controller-perms.rules:
# Valve USB devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"
# Steam Controller udev write access
KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", TAG+="uaccess"
# HTC Vive HID Sensor naming and permissioningI've a 64 Bit system (i7 6700k).
EDIT: I don't know if this has something to do with this update. At the moment I don't know what the problem is. My Controller runs perfectly on a older steam client on the same system.
What one game would blow your mind if it came to Linux & SteamOS?
1 Dec 2016 at 9:24 pm UTC
1 Dec 2016 at 9:24 pm UTC
Elite: Dangerous. I would give a lot for it. Watch explorer streams on twitch again and again. ED is the best space simulation ever. Unfortunately, a niche product. Will not be ported. :(
You might want to avoid the Nvidia 375.20 driver, Nvidia recommend downgrading
28 Nov 2016 at 2:17 pm UTC
28 Nov 2016 at 2:17 pm UTC
No issues so far. Xubuntu 16.10. GTX 970.
The Vulkan API spec has been updated again, now at its 34th revision since release
20 Nov 2016 at 8:05 pm UTC
20 Nov 2016 at 8:05 pm UTC
Bethesda supports with Vulkan Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. I think this is the main reason why we will see a lot of Vulkan developments in the near future. But unfortunately this does not mean automatically Linux ports.