Thank you very much!

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Quoting: Geppeto35With one baby of few months, hard to play for me (one hour max per day, and only when he is sleeping, so no immersive games...don't do child :-P )

Quoting: EikeMan, you could have really told that some months ago...! :p

Hehe, I'm in a similar situation. Though it turned out, as long as their aren't really mobile, and you can leave them lying next to you, you still can do some stuff. As soon as they start crawling or even walking, it's over :D Nevertheless, children are so much joy to watch them growing up, no game can give you that.

My son is now two years old and claims all free time from his parents he can get ;) That's why I haven't really played anything where you can directly jump in and out again. So for me mostly idle clicker games like Adventure Capitalist or Time Clickers. But as I've "finished" Adventure Capitalist (got all achievements) there wasn't anything I could dig into. I'm still gathering games for the time, where I can catch up then :D So I'm building up my pile of honor!

I really like reading this kind of article and especially its comments. They give me the motivation to either look into some specific games or even start playing them (if there is time for it).

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Unfortunately Razer's notebooks aren't available here in Germany. So I went for an ASUS ROG Strix GL502VS-FY042T. As it has a gsync display, the iGPU is disabled. So I don't have to bother with optimus. As the GTX 1070 can run at very low frequencies in desktop mode, I don't think it's effecting battery runtime a lot. Well, it's also a gaming notebook, so long battery runtime isn't very important. Though it's using power from the battery when playing high demanding games. The power supply isn't enough.

What I couldn't get to work are some hotkeys from the internal keyboard. Display- or keyboard-backlight-brightness aren't changing when pressing fn + the corresponding key. Kernel parameter "acpi_osi=" doesn't help as suggested for other Asus notebooks on stackoverflow etc.
Here I wish Asus would have better Linux support.
As I'm using an external Apple keyboard I can live with that, as its fn keys can change both brightnesses.

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Would be nice to see the demo also updated, so we can be sure they don't run into issues like EVERSPACE has run into.
I'm glad I backed System Shock and looking forward to play this game again. I can't play the original anymore, as the old graphics is really... to old for my eyes ;) But in my memories the game was really awesome with its atmosphere and story. Would really like to get this feeling again, exploring the station and stuff. The soundtrack of the intro still is a catchy song.

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A scenario where Steam Machines could find a great niche is VR. When playing room scale VR you won't sit at your desk. You want the PC powering your VR headset in your living room, and this is where Steam Machines belong to.

On the other hand, when reading about why Steam Machines were invented in the first place, you'll realize that this reason isn't urgent at the moment. Dell/AlienWare approached Valve for an alternative to Windows 8 and its store. This was also covered here.
So today, Microsoft is giving Gamers again a vital platform with Windows 10, and this took the pressure of Dell/AlienWare and Valve to push the alternative.
We have to see, how this works out with UWP games and the store where these are sold. So there is still a chance, that this "thread" is becoming imminent again, and then Valve might already be prepared with SteamOS or Linux gaming in general.

So yeah, Steam Machines might not be completely "dead", but they aren't doing pretty well. Nevertheless, gaming on Linux is doing very well, and this trend seems to continue. I was afraid for 2017 that the momentum we saw in 2016 would decrease, but with VR coming to Linux there is something again I'm getting hyped about and looking forward to. I hope this pace continues and the signs for this are looking good at the moment \o/

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Oh hell yeah. As soon as Elite: Dangerous runs on Linux with wine, I'll never have to boot into Windows again \o/
Would prefer a native Linux version of ED of course, but that's probably not gonna happen anytime soon, if at all.

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Quoting: DoItOnLinuxI wrote the fix up here; http://doitonlinux.blogspot.com/2017/01/saints-row-3-crashing-in-multiplayer.html [External Link]

@DoltOnLinux: Thank you very much. This helped me too. When I tried to play with a mate (both on Linux), it was always kicking me back to desktop. I already had the ingame voice chat set to disable, but my mate had it to always transmit. After he changed that, it was working over two hours without issues.

So, if you want to troll your buddy, just set your ingame voice to always transmit, and he will be kicked from the game right to the desktop. Don't expect your mate to play with you again though :D

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Hmm... now the Killing Floor 2 entry on Aaron's Website [External Link] has been replaced by Flywrench.
Looks like Tripwire didn't like that he had this entry on his website.
I hope this didn't cause any trouble.

edit: oh, also the tweet [External Link] got deleted.

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Will it really have to be Ubuntu 16.10? Like library-wise? Or will 16.04 LTS be working, too?

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I had an email tip

You're welcome ;)

I would pick up a copy for sure. There have been many sales for KF2 already, but I was able to resist. Will pick up a copy as soon as it releases for Linux. Aaron is doing great porting work, so the port, if it comes, will probably be technically flawless.

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