Quoting: jkaart

Quoting: GuestI remember this game. Time flies.

Yes! I was about 15y old when I first time played that game in school computer which had Windows XP! :D
Year was 2001.

Windows XP! I'm pretty sure I played this back on Windows 95...so many hours my brothers and I put into this game.

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I've been a fan of Codemaster for a long time, since I first played TOCA Race Driver 2. I then played Colin Mcrae 2005. I've gotten all the Grid and Dirt games since. I would love to see this come to Linux under Vulkan.

Since the game has a Vulkan engine, for it to run on Stadia, here is to hoping we get a native Vulkan port to Linux. We don't have too many 'native' Vulkan games. I am not counting the Feral ports, as the newer ones do use Vulkan, they are all native DX11 or DX12 engines that Feral has ported to Vulkan, which is an amazing feat and I very much enjoy Dirt 4, Shadow of Mordor, Tomb Raider, etc...but games which actually have a Vulkan engine, are rare, even on Windows. And only a handful have been ported to Linux.

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Dirt 4 - I always have at least one racing game I am primarily playing.

Metro 2033 REDUX - I've had this game on my wish list for a long time. With the announcement that Metro Exodus would be coming to Linux, I decided to buy and get started on the series. So far so good, the story is intriguing. The game just crashes sometimes running out of memory when loading new map areas.

Heliborne - This is my current main social game, for when I want to play with others. The game is fun, flying around in various helicopters completing missions.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: ertuquequeI still hate the exclusivity crap they threw last year to the gaming community, but the native Linux support is certainly a very nice pullback.

I guess if you look at it this way, it’s not so different from waiting a year or more for Feral to release a port. Either way we get the added benefit of fixed bugs and in some cases additional DLC at a discount.

We don't know when the Linux release is planned. It could be a year out from now...

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Although GRID hasn't gotten great reviews, I am excited to see it placed on Stadia. I am hopeful this means that it might be brought to Linux at some point in the future.

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Awesome! I actually just got it in the last Humble Monthly. Nice that it also supports Linux now!

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Quoting: GuestI agree. You are not the first one noticing this, plenty of us see where this is going. Obviously Windows based on Linux will not be "just another distro", i am pretty sure they are going to use a ton of proprietary frameworks, libraries, shells etc on top of the opensource stuff. Maybe they will be keeping DirectX too, who knows. But i am pretty sure long term they are moving to Linux, they have releasized they can't really compete anymore, it costs too much just to maintain Windows 10 at this point. And every patch they release is a joke, breaking as much as they are fixing.

As for MS Office, well, the online part can run on a browser already, can't it?

Well bummer. I thought it was some revolutionary futuristic thought that no one else had thought of as a possibility. Oh well.

I've not used Office 365 online. It should work in Linux yes. But last I knew it was not as feature rich, but does offer some features like real-time collaboration that the desktop version does not have.

While I agree, there will be stuff they do that will set them apart, like packaging and their own Desktop Environment (likely with its own proprietary toolkit for creating GUI applications). The more they do the more effort it creates for them to maintain, which is the whole point to making the switch in the first place. In the case of DirectX, if they decide to port it, it likely wouldn't be locked down to be utilized by just their distro. It would likely then dominate (as it does now) as the primary graphics API and kill off Vulkan leaving just Apple's Metal. Anything using DirectX would then work on any Linux based system.

Only time will tell as to what actually goes down and happens.

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Picked up Metro 2033 Redux. Had it on my wish list for a while and now with news Exodus is coming, I better get ready by playing through the originals.

I am all for native games. Sure, as things progress, the games might break. The first AAA game I played on Linux was Doom 3. But I think it is not playable now (with the original binaries) because I'm sure the libraries have changed so much it would be broken. Same issue occurs with Windows games though. Try running GTA III on Windows 10 where you have to try out a ton of patches hoping one of them works. That is how GOG came to be, in which they did the necessary work to get older games to work on more modern hardware and operating system.

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That said, I think the whole Proton vs native port is mute. As by my prediction, in 10 years we will all be running Linux anyway, except for the 5% on Mac. How? Because in 10 years, Windows will be based on the Linux kernel and be just another "distro".

Why would they do this? Save costs. Right now, they have to invest huge amounts of development into maintaining their own kernel, and to what benefit? Every Windows 10 release has major issues, and the releases aren't event that big anymore compared to a full Windows release like from 7 to 8.

What evidence is there that they would think of such a thing? Plenty. Several years ago, they launched their own code editor to Linux VSCode. Their big database product SQL Server was ported to Linux, when they could have just left it as Windows only, forcing customers needing it to get/use Windows as well. Recently MS Teams has been announced as coming to Linux. But, the biggest evidence of it all is Edge. Less than 5 years, after building a new browser engine from scratch to replace the aging IE, Edge's core has now been gutted, and it is now based on Chromium, a core they no longer have to heavily invest or maintain in. In a few years, once Windows 8 support has dropped off, Windows 10 will be known as just Windows.

When will we know that this is likely to happen? The clear sign that this is indeed coming, will be when MS Office is released to Linux. This will be the sign that the move to the Linux kernel is coming.

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I know the polls were open for items to add, but somehow I failed to add one of my favorite developer, which would be Shiro Games. The Evoland games were great. Northgard is so much fun (though very difficult). And their upcoming 2020 title looks really good as well.

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Would love to see achievements added (just not any ridiculous ones that require crazy grinding game play or straight up luck to get)!

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