Unless they make a non-Steam release on GOG.com or whatever I am going to have to pass on the local landmark then.

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Quoting: laveto me it looks like the sole reason why they support the foss driver is to save money on developer deployment for their proprietary.

The reason for the free radeon driver was actually AMD bowing to pressure from Linux vendors like Red Hat and Novell after they purchased ATI in 2007. There was a lot of demand for it, especially since before Nvidia showed up it was actually the norm to have free software Mesa drivers from graphics card manufacturers.

Quoting: laveunless you really care about open source in every part of your system the support of noveau by nvidia wont even matter to you, because their binary covers all your needs.

As mirv has already pointed out that is far from being true; I really would not be able to comfortably use the distributions I do (Arch and Fedora) if I had to have a blob tied around my neck making me have to question every kernel or xorg update, let alone next generation technologies like Wayland. Ease of installation and maintenance matters even to gamers.

As for gaming, it has been years since I have had a game fail to work for me because of my drivers. Things have improved hugely since I first had the opportunity to use Linux full time in 2007. This is thanks to sane developments from AMD, Intel, and of course those previously mentioned Linux vendors, among others in the community. At this point, I would never tolerate a blob again.

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Quoting: neffoIs the snark in the title necessary? :(

Liam is allowed to have some editorial voice; he is hardly being all that unfair to them.

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Similar to lave, I basically used it as a soapbox for the promoting free software radeon driver, since my Catalyst impressions are from awhile back now and may not be all that relevant. Still did my best for an honest star selection though.

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Quoting: GuestI'm not a very normal person however so I would try to find ways in which to multiply this amount of money so I could bribe governments into creating some laws and changing existing ones to vastly improve the general quality of life for the lower and middle class folks in that community. Things like reinventing education and re-designing the political system to diminsh corruption and safeguard against falsified data. Things in that general direction.

I do not see how bribing governments with your extreme wealth would equal diminishing corruption since taking bribes is in many ways the height of corruption...

But that is off topic, not that I am terribly bothered with the topic, but anyway...

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Quoting: fabertaweNot this again please! There are other threads specifically for arguing about DRM and Steam.

This. Ever since I joined GOL this has been raging. Talk about it somewhere else.

It has been raging here since it is a very important discussion with very little resolution that we as a community do indeed have to engage with; that being said, it is not strictly on topic here, so you are correct in that this thread is not the best place to continue talking about it.

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Nothing here really strikes me as all that interesting personally, but that is not really a fault of the Bundle.

I will probably just wait and see what comes next week before making a decision.

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Quoting: paupavI still game on Windows as do most of the Gnu/Linux userd

Well, I suppose this post already justifies the point of the survey, as it might just give us a more definitive way of either refuting or affirming these sentiments beyond just shouting "WELL, I DON'T!" at the top of our lungs.

:P

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Nice to see this. Still, I do have some suggestions and comments to make regarding its implementation.

Given the current limitations I can understand why it should be left as it is for the moment, but two questions I would like to see added at some point are whether or not survey participants care about the DRM situation of their games and whether or not they prefer to use free software or binary blob graphics drivers with their hardware. There is a big difference between gaming on AMD with Catalyst and gaming on AMD using the radeon drivers.

I also can not help but fail to see the importance of the distro hopping question in the context of gaming, as most distributions should be roughly the same in that respect, and which one you use should not have that big an impact on your gaming experience.

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Quoting: neffoNo way in hell they are irrelevant.

They are not irrelevant, but at the same time they are in a far less strong position when it comes to advocating for Linux releases. I mean, would you go to the trouble as a developer to port your game to be included in a Humble Indie Bundle when it could just as easily be placed into a bundle with a lower barrier to entry just a week or so later?

This also devalues the work put in by the developers that do take on the trouble of supporting us, as the advantages they gain compared to everyone else are slim in the context of the promotions themselves, especially since Linux users for some reason still seem willing to support many of these non cross platform bundles.

Which is also ignoring for the moment the DRM free component that they also used to heavily promote, something which has also been weakened and devalued due to their more recent actions.

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