Interesting read. The situation with 3D graphics on Linux only improved since then and continues moving in the right direction, and I'm sure MS views Vulkan as even a bigger threat than OpenGL. I expect the trend is going to continue.

Valve's major effort in Vulkan and recently hiring engineers to work on AMD driver in Mesa shows that they view this seriously and are invested in Linux gaming. I'd say, those are more important for success of Linux than SteamOS.

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Quoting: no_information_hereI would love to see separate "AAA" and "non-AAA" categories for best game. Games like Deus Ex, Mad Max and Xcom will be hard for smaller devs to muscle out just from sheer voting numbers...

I know it is a little hard deciding where to draw the line between them, though.

I don't think it's a good idea to make such separation. AAA is a bad term to begin with. Do you mean big budget games? Publisher funded games? Or something else? Its ambiguity makes its usage pointless.

For instance I wouldn't vote for most of publisher funded games because they aren't available DRM-free, so I can't even evaluate them and they can't be in my list of GOTY games. And in my understanding, they more frequently end up being mass market driven and as such less original and interesting than games developed by independent studios. And that topic is really orthogonal to budget, since there are big budget independent games as well.

So categories are fine as they are.

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Should the game appear in the list after adding? I don't see it.

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My favorite game of 2016 - The Dwarves.

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Thank you all so much for the support. It really is massively appreciated.

Looks very fun. I hope it will come out on GOG too!

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It would be interesting also to have an option to see trends over a period of time.

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Downloading the game now, to check if they fixed the the infamous "missing LFS / failing on large XFS partitions" bug.

Nope, is till fails. These developers really should stop making 32-bit builds, if they can't produce them correctly.

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Well, Tizen is normal glibc/Wayland/Linux, same as SailfishOS. But it's nowhere near to Android in adoption.

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Quoting: elmapulgoogle will try to push Android or ChromeOS on desktop

I don't consider it good. Android is best friend and worst enemy (the way Aaron Seigo put it [External Link]). It would be pretty bad for Linux if Android with its bionic mess would spill to the desktop. If Google would use glibc + Wayland, that could end up beneficial for Linux desktop, but Android as it is now (bionic + Surfaceflinger) is actually harmful in a number of ways. It would be like another Windows to fight with.

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Quoting: ShmerlNintendo OS is FreeBSD based from what I've heard.

Did it help FreeBSD in a slightest? I also heard MacOS X has BSD underneath...

No idea. Since they are weak copyleft, I doubt any of that helps them much. Nintendo OS is minuscule in comparison with iOS which is also FreeBSD based, and the later didn't help anything much either.

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