I also can't help but think if you are going to be putting up random free codes you would be better off posting it in the forums rather than on unrelated article comments.

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Quoting: STiATDarksiders? Thought that was a Microsoft published one...

It does not make a great difference. Most of Klei Entertainment's games were published by Microsoft as well, and we still got Linux ports of those.

Quoting: FutureSutureThe game came out in 2010 for crying out loud! Marvellous! Love this sort of effort.

I still fail to see how a game that came out only four years ago can really be considered old.

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Quoting: BillNyeTheBlackGuyYou guys are better off waiting for the wine bottled version of the BG2 from GoG since that version will at least support old mods.

And I thought the enhanced edition showing up on Linux was something of a large assumption...

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Hey, I guess this means I can claim to be a great old timer, although I was only an occasional visitor on here until the forums initially launched in 2010.

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Quoting: CimerydIf we do a survey, it would be fun to see who used Linux before and recently started gaming, and who played games before and recently switched to Linux for it.

Or those of us who have used Linux and played games on it for quite some time now - we do exist you know. I do accept that we are less interesting from a population change point of view, however.

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If this becomes native and is not tied to Steam I will probably give it a go, since I have never actually played a Bioware title despite them being loved by so many people and actually being based nearby in Edmonton. Got into Linux gaming too late for Neverwinter Nights, so maybe this can be my introduction.

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Quoting: BraqoonWho really uses non Proprietary drivers for gaming. I know there are games that are not 3D, but c'mon.

One of the Editors of this very website, including for a wide assortment of 3D titles, and I am far from being alone on this. To me, the choice of drivers is at least as important a statistic as whether or not someone is dual booting (which I do not do) or uses WINE (which I only do for old titles).

Still, the main reason I am posting here is to throw my support behind the idea of a GOL survey - it does not need to be monthly if that is too much work, but even a yearly GOL Linux Choice Awards like I recall Linux Journal doing back in the day would be interesting, if tiered more for gaming.

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Quoting: scaineWhy do you think he's anti-OpenGL?

He is not anti-OpenGL, but he does mention that he thinks the future is in lower level APIs such as a Mantle, Metal, DirectX 12, and interestingly enough OpenGL 5, which he seems to think will go in a similar direction as well.

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Having actually listened to it the most striking thing to me was some of his more "diplomatic" phrasings about certain things, such as Humble Bundle getting more lax on what games they included, and other disappointments which at this point are thankfully mostly muddled out by the optimism.

He also gave namechecks to a lot of good things, and about the only thing that made me grit my teeth was that in his response to the free driver question at the end he mentioned the attempts to reverse engineer Nvidia hardware and the fact that Intel pays people to work on their free drivers, but made no mention of AMD, despite the fact they do the same thing. I know it is not his job to correct people's bullshit, but given the amount of FUD going around about that, I would have appreciated just that tiny extra bit of clarification.

This is not the first SELF talk he has given by the way, and I recommend people going back and taking a look at them all just to see just how much progress has been made over the past few years. There is always one bit of the earlier history he always gets wrong, but I will hopefully be able to expound upon that at a later date.

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Never played xbill, but I have of course heard of it. It probably is a good video for getting them youngsters up to speed on Linux gaming history.

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