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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Quoting: GuestLong before Steam & gog, I read a description of this game and thought, "Nicola Tesla!"

Did he date pigeons?

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What's the usual phrase? "Oh Japan!"? - Yahtzee

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Quoting: KristianThe distinction between Indie bundles and other bundles as regards DRM-free and cross platform policies is an artificial distinction invented after the fact as a rationalization. The first couple of bundles not labeled Humble Indie Bundle <insert number here> were also both DRM free and cross platform, take the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle as an example. The fact is for about the first 2 years or so of the existence of the Humble Bundles there was no non-Indie bundle exception, it was invented after the fact.

It used to be the case that developers had to port their games to Mac and Linux and provide DRM free builds to get to be in a bundle by Humble Bundle Inc. That is no longer the case, so that is one less incentive to port games to Linux. I am not actively boycotting Humble Bundle over this but I am using the option to not give Humble tips (or give lesser tips) on some bundles and avoiding others completely.

This. Seriously. This.

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Speaking as an Albertan, you should just be glad chrisq that your government and people actually do receive any income from your oil, unlike here were we get our environment and other industries trashed while receiving almost no royalties and dwindling services due to our decadent entrenched government who also allow work to be done by inadequately trained temporary foreign workers who can simply be deported if they demand even basic labour rights, as to allow that would suddenly make it acceptable for them to hire Canadian workers instead. Incidentally, they are also allowing train cars full of LPG to blow up only a few kilometres away from my farm while at the same time failing to ship grain due to the end of our formally monopolistic agricultural protection system.

I know, I know, this is not a political website, but I could not let that stand without comment.

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Quoting: joshmnz$6 for that anmesia game alone is worth it IMO

I am rather doubtful that there are many people on here who do not already own it though.

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Quoting: edoI would prefer to have the original trine available in steam linux too, due to trine 2 runs very slow even on windows, so on linux it will be unplayable (I have to use the r600 driver).
btw, the humble-bundle trine version does not work either.

Trine 2 is perfectly playable for me on Linux with a Radeon HD 4670 and the R600 Gallium3D drivers:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gamingonlinux-reviews-trine-2-complete-story.2623

I do hope that non-Steam users will still have the old Alternative Games port available for download alongside the Enchanted Edition though - if it does use the Trine 2 skills there are enough game balance changes between the two that my opinion might swing heavily between them.

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I can't say that I am that fond of the new layout - it seems to subscribe to the whole Windows 8 style of having few or no hard edges that quite frankly I despise. A real shame considering that the old GOG layout was probably the best one I have seen for a web store.

Still, it does at least work for me with Chromium (Version 36.0.1985.143 (287914)), and the Linux icon is now a little penguin, which is indeed an improvement.

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