I would also wish for witcher 3!

Reason: It would be awesome to see how my decisions in the witcher 2 are affecting the storyline :)

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What I always ask myself concerning linux: I have used it for many years now and I'm really satisfied, since it's very customizable and I like open-source software very much. But why is it actually said to be more safe and privacy focussed than for example windows? An argument that often comes up is that there are fewer viruses for linux going around than for windows since we have much less users. I mean, yeah that's true but as I have heard the majority of servers run GNU/Linux distros and to me they seem as much a juicy target for a hacker as a personal computer.

So what is it that makes linux distros actually more safe than windows and if it is the case that the answer is: 'there are much fewer linux users than windows users', shouldn't we be happy about being unpopular? :D

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Hm, I guess the main question is if this trend will make linux gamedevs and porters to do less linux games in the future, and currently I don't see this trend, as liam already pointed out. What I really hope for in the next years is a good streaming service for games, which would make it possible to play windows games on linux without having to have a dual boot.

What I also always wonder is why the game devs themselves don't like to play their own games on linux. The proportion of linux users in programming is much higher than for the average user. So why don't the people who actually program the game say 'hey, I'm using linux anyway to program this engine, why not making it possible to run it on this machine?'.

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Quoting: Duke Takeshihey liam, just recognized that you've changed you distro back from antergos to ubuntu. A few months back you were quite enthusiastic about antergos and wrote an article about it, may I ask what brought you back to ubuntu? I actually put antergos on my system because of your recommendation and still love it :)

There was an openssl-1.0 update that got pushed that basically broke steam and a bunch of games. Took a few weeks to get fixed if I recall. I switched to Ubuntu Gnome at the time, but am now back on Arch. the 4.10 kernel was holding me back and if I ran a newer kernel on ubuntu, it was stuck with the ondemand cpu govenor and that causes a pretty drastic performance hit in some situations, vs performance.

Yeah I had the same Problem but there was a workaround using some package from AUR and then you had to put a command at steam launch option and then the games worked perfectly fine for me, so I'm not sure if that's actually the reason for liams switching back to ubuntu, but it might be.

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hey liam, just recognized that you've changed you distro back from antergos to ubuntu. A few months back you were quite enthusiastic about antergos and wrote an article about it, may I ask what brought you back to ubuntu? I actually put antergos on my system because of your recommendation and still love it :)

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Quoting: liamdawe@Duke: Don't really get where you seem to think pointing out things are complaints, but okay. The article even ended on a positive note.

Sorry I didn't mean to offend you or anything ;). And you are right, the article did end on a positive note.

However I can't really understand the necessity of the article for us linux gamers. The title says explicitly that the game will be on mac first, but why would a linux gamer care, as long as the game gets ported to linux eventually? What would be of interest however, is to know if said game was delayed, which we couldn't possibly know because no one knows the time schedule of feral. Why were linux and mac versions separated on the radar? Maybe they've got problems with the linux version,maybe they were faster with the mac version than expected, we can only speculate.

Quoting: liamdaweYou can hardly compare this article to what happened with The Witcher 2, come on now. I'm mostly stating basic facts, which gave me an opportunity to reshare the teaser.

Sorry again, I didn't mean to say that either. In no way is this article comparable with what happened with witcher 2, of course. I was merely trying to break a lance for supporting devs who keep bringing great games to our platform.

Quoting: liamdaweThe fact is though, I want Bioshock Remastered on Linux and I will repeatedly make it known :)

Me too! Who knows maybe, if the recent feral questionnaire turns out to show enough interest in the game, we'll get a linux port eventually. ;)

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Hmmm okay so mac people might get whatever game it is on the radar a little earlier...so what? I also think that a direct comparison of games being ported to Mac and Linux isn't very productive. Concerning Bioshock Remastered:Feral never stated that they will port all games for mac to linux as well. It's a revenue based decision for them if they want to port a game to mac, linux or both.

Feral is one of the very few companies out there that care about bringing games to our platform. We know that linux sales amount to two to three percent on average, even if it was five percent it's still pretty small, and we also know from some insider interviews (thanks to the great work of people like Liam) that linux issues also take up a lot of resources for the support.

I remember the article about Witcher 3 not being ported to linux because of the linux community treating the developers in a really bad way for the witcher 2 port. So if I was a dev, and I had some trouble porting whatever game that is to linux, would I want the linux community to push me and support me to make it work (cookies helped in the past ;) ) or do I want it to complain about the game being ported to mac first (even if not intended, I think the article does sound like a complaint in part)?

I recently played a lot of Ferals ports: Shadow of mordor, Hitman and now total war: warhammer, all work just fine on my machine and I am really thankful for Feral bringing those games to linux, because otherwise I had to switch to my Windows 10 partition to play and I always feel like having to shower afterwards :P

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I recently played a lot of HITMAN, finishing all the levels on a standard difficulty. Then I started them all over again to get all the achievements and it's incredibly fun to play a map over and over again to check out new ways to assassinate a target. I bought the game in the steam summer sale and even managed to eliminate the last elusive target with silent assassin rating, which got me a last-minute terminus suit ;). I hope that there will be a season two and that it will be ported to linux as well. The port is just great - Feral simply rules!

After that I started playing Total War: Warhammer smashing my foes with the power of the mighty empire! It's extremely fun to play and the mods are awesome. Again thanks to Feral, another great port! I never had any problems playing it.

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Oceania beats latin america in sales oO

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Nice article liam!

Actually I personally never had any arch-only problems on my system yet. Having switched from ubuntu to antergos, I'm very surprised how smooth the user experience is, also concerning gaming. Until now I never had problems with a single game, and if there was some bug, I found that people running ubuntu have it as well.

The AUR is also a good thing for workarounds since you can install additional packages easily without having to build them yourself.

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