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: 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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I've bought Tower of time and King Arthurs gold. I've been meaning to get ToT for a while, since I've not played RPGs for a long time and the reviews looked good.
I really wish there were more CCGs for Linux. Artifact has my hopes quite high up...

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It looks extremly cool, especially Binary Gwent:

Images from kickstarter

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Quoting: PikoloI fully expect more states to start their national distro's as a cost saving measure, with business licenses for Windows increasing as a proportion of software licensing cost. This won't happen in the USA, but it might happen in Europe(France already provides Linux as one of the two OS's on parliamentary laptops) or in China/Saudi Arabia/Brazil.

I don't think deputies and bureaucrats are PC gamers and would evolve into Linux gamers if there was Linux on their computers at work.

Bureaucrats totally would if that was what was preinstalled on computers they've bought, and governments could make that the easiest way to access government IT systems. But a far more important battleground is education. Just look at what is starting to happen as American teens who used ChromeOS at school go to universities - ChromeOS is on the rise.

This could 100% be utilized to push national Linux distros if governments were forward thinking, but they weren't. With Windows 10 being banned on Russian govn't computers and China developing Ubuntu Kylin, they might just be waking up to digital independence. And Linux happens to be the easiest starting point for any such efforts.

A Chinese company who bought VIA(one of the three companies in the world with a license to use the amd64 architecture) has recently licensed Threadripper(or possibly Ryzen too, I'm not sure) from AMD and got Linux support for their modified version into the mainline kernel in 4.18.

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Even Microsoft just calls every virtual cpu thread(if you have simultaneous multi threading(hyperthreading is what Intel calls it), there is more than one per core. While on amd64 it's usually double, newer POWER and MIPS architectures have quadruple SMT) a CPU.

It's just something you learn the first time you run lscpu(?) or open Hardware manager

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