Quoting: damarrinGOG operates in a different environment to Valve. Linux is completely negligible in their native Poland, they are almost certainly disinterested in Linux themselves and the Witcher 2 debacle was more than enough to turn them away from Linux users almost completely (I think it’s very probable the Galaxy no show on Linux is also due to that) They’re also a publicly-traded company and anything they do that doesn’t bring them profits is a huge liability to their share price. Their shareholders are Polish, so they don’t care about the Linux market at all and any actions to support us will be viewed as nonsensical.

BS. EU is the market with highest Linux market share(ChromeOS excluded), and while Germany is the leader, Linux is on the rise in other countries too. As for the state of Linux in Poland, I know of at least 4 Linux distros that originate here:
- QubesOS(https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Qubes [External Link],
- Sparky Linux(https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sparky [External Link],
- Openwall(https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openwall [External Link],
- poldek(aka. PLD Linux Distribution, https://www.pld-linux.org/) [External Link].

According to Ubuntu statistics(https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics [External Link], 1.9% of installations occured in Poland, and Polish is the 9th most popular language. Which is impressive, if you realize there are only ~45-50 milion Polish speakers, including emigrants.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicIs there anything which could be done to make Linux more attractive to use in China? Because as a free to use OS it could do very well in China if it gained some popularity. Are Linux distros perhaps lacking in some translations for Chinese? Because that's seriously a big potential market for users and it is in fact the Chinese market that seems to pull down Linux's userbase numbers everywhere, including on Steam. We really need to do something about that.

Ubuntu has the Kylin edition(https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntukylin), supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. That seems like the best best bet for Linux in China atm.

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Seems like Linux users are unusually highly concentrated in the rich markets of Germany and France, as well as the emerging market of Brazil.

Germany doesn't surprise me at all, they're one of the most privacy conscious nations of the world. France is a pleasant surprise, but given that their parliament gives representatives a choice between Windows and Linux on their work computers, it probably shouldn't. Brazil is an interesting case, where Linux is sold preinstalled on cheap computers. The only other country I know this to be the case is Hungary, but that doesn't seem to show on the statistics.

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Quoting: wintermute

Quoting: GuestJust want to point out that Google already have an OS that uses Linux...

Actually they have two: Android and ChromeOS.

I would just like to add to the speculation in this comment thread the speculation from this slightly older thread and note that Assassin's Creed was one of the guesses on that. If Ubisoft have indeed ported their game to Linux it's possible they brought in some expert help?

Actually have 3(and briefly had 4) desktop Linuxes, before we even get to the server flavors:
- Android("desktop" is debatable, but since you can use a mouse and keyboard, so I'd argue it qualifies)
- ChromeOS(forked off Gentoo),
- Goobuntu(internal Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, used 2012-2018),
- gLinux(based on Debian Testing, started in 2017-18).

Bus since you couldn't get your hands on GooBuntu and can't on gLinux, it's fair to omit them.

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Quoting: GuestFor me the biggest asset of Valve against any other store is SteamPlay. No other store, company, allows you to code once, deploy in Mac, Linux, Windows and in the future Android.

I was under the impression that MacOS isn't supported in SteamPlay. Has that changed, or was Mac support something they intended to work on after DXVK worked well on Linux?

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Quoting: LeopardWell , that is also a long term goal for Valve too. Otherwise with everybody investing only Windows platform ; Microsoft would be the monopol in cloud gaming area too.

You know Windows server edition prices? That is pretty high , even for companies like Valve since they have essentially tons of them.

And there is no guarentee MS won't go with even higher prices also.

So ; that is a plausible way forward.

Microsoft has recently hiked the way Windows Server deployments are priced by linking them to the number of cores on the server's CPU and increasing prices despite the recent core count explosion. Their plan was to nudge people towards Azure, but instead, no company on earth wants to have more Windows Servers anymore. And MS knows, that's why MS SQL Server was ported to Linux, and that's just the middle of the dusk of server side Windows.

It will be interesting to see if that helps us get any more Linux native games though.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: ShmerlAnd no promised DRM-free release still.

I should have mentioned, they touched on that in the recent update. It sounds like GOG want them to improve the game first, before listing it on their store.

That suggests the current version should be called a Beta or Early Access. And I fully agree with @Patola, if they don't test Linux from the start, there will be more Linux bugs

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I'm really glad the UN has finally figured how to educate the Americans about climate change: through games. I'm curious to see if those will just be random events, or if you''l be able to prevent them

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I played the demo and can thoroughly recommend it. The game is cute, engaging and really fun. Might need to get a kickstarter account...

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Interesting... which version of the proprietary driver are you using?
WarThunder is also displaying wrong(there is a dark shadow) on Nvidia 410 and 415, while working just fine on 396. I think Nvidia broke something in OpenGL code, since WarThunder runs on the Dagor engine.

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