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Mesa 17.3.0 released to further advance open source graphics drivers
8 Dec 2017 at 4:39 pm UTC

Quoting: linuxvangog
libtxc_dxtn is now integrated into Mesa. GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc and GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt are now always enabled on drivers that support them
That's real handy for those that have to install 32-bit versions of Mesa libraries to play DRM-free games :)

There was a drop-in replacement even before - libtxc-dxtn-s2tc. But I suppose s3tc proper is better.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2TC [External Link]

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Here's another way to look at the Linux market share on Steam
5 Dec 2017 at 1:16 am UTC

Quoting: Boogiepop_PhantomNo, just no. All the most horrible atrocities were commit by states, governments.

Spoiler, click me

Consider corporation, that basically became the government. What will prevent same atrocities from happening? Something like USSR was actually the case. The government had full monopoly on production.

Same Putin and his cronies basically control all of the big money in Russia. So here you have it.

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Here's another way to look at the Linux market share on Steam
4 Dec 2017 at 10:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

Idea of exclusives is dead. No one is going to make games only for one OS.

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Here's another way to look at the Linux market share on Steam
4 Dec 2017 at 5:34 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Boogiepop_PhantomIn all seriousness after your post, especially third part, I want to buy copy of Windows and support all corporations and capitalists around the world.

This is going way off-topic, but how did you come to such conclusion? Power of corporations is a grim alternative to power of dictators.

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Here's another way to look at the Linux market share on Steam
3 Dec 2017 at 10:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: jens
Quoting: appetrosyanI don't care anymore. Steam doesn't care about Linux, no surprise that the statistics drop.
They do care, but unfortunately they can't do magic.

I'd say they failed pretty badly at pushing supported gaming consoles with Linux. Their effort of Steam machines was underwhelming. However their major contributions to Vulkan, Mesa and etc. are more than welcome.

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Amanita Design now has some of their titles up on game store itch, on sale too
3 Dec 2017 at 7:03 pm UTC

Quoting: Kuromi
Quoting: ShmerlTheir upcoming game Chuchel [External Link] doesn't list Linux :(
There will be none. Amanita uses Adobe Air and Air for Linux is dead for long time.

From what I've red, they aren't using Adobe Air anymore. It's really junk. Not sure what they are using, but as I wrote above, Haxe could be a good option for them.

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Amanita Design now has some of their titles up on game store itch, on sale too
3 Dec 2017 at 1:58 am UTC

Quoting: subSo they got finally rid of the awful Adobe AIR backend that dropped Linux support a long time ago?

From what I've heard, they are using their own engine now. Really, they can as well have picked Haxe, if they liked ActionScript.

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Here's another way to look at the Linux market share on Steam
3 Dec 2017 at 1:01 am UTC Likes: 16

I'm more surprised that Linux is not widely used in China.

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Amanita Design now has some of their titles up on game store itch, on sale too
1 Dec 2017 at 2:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Their upcoming game Chuchel [External Link] doesn't list Linux :(

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GOG now have Epic Pinball and the platformer Jazz Jackrabbit with Linux support
1 Dec 2017 at 1:30 pm UTC

Quoting: linuxvangog
GOG does not participate in process of developing CDPR games

Sure, but how is it worse than you not participating in development of other games, yet you might wrap them in Wine potentially? In this case CDPR are your sister company, so if CDPR wanted, they could provide you with more than your regular partners, i.e. for instance simply with sources of CDPR games.

And on a side note, for example Humble Bundle while being primarily a distributor, actually hired developers to make Linux ports. Something that GOG can ponder as well.

Quoting: linuxvangog
You are seriously overestimating our resources here - Linux version of Witcher 3 would require literally hundreds, if not thousands of QA hours

Yeah, that may be. I'm not saying GOG should just do it randomly. It's something CDPR should help with I suppose, and allocate some resources to it. After all it was their promise which they blew, it's only fair for them to do something about it :)

Quoting: linuxvangog
Even if we went for it, the end result would most likely offer significantly worse experience than the Windows version, and I am pretty sure nobody from Linux community wants that :)

It's not uncommon for wrappers to perform worse than native versions. That doesn't stop Feral and even CDPR themselves from using them no? TW2 itself is a wrapper using eON after all. So with some effort, Wine wrapped TW3 can have acceptable performance.

Quoting: linuxvangogIn the future, please direct CDPR games-related inquires to the studio directly

I did that already naturally, but they lately aren't communicating anything, let alone answering proposals :) I thought GOG team are just in a unique position to move this forward, but as you said, without some backing by CDPR, it's of course a resource draining task. But you can at least pass this idea around ;)

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