Quoting: FutureSutureWhy are you suffering? The latest news regarding AMD's open source drivers for that card has shown remarkable improvement. Things are looking up quite a bit.

Remarkable improvement in the drivers isn't the same thing as remarkable performance.

Quoting: DrMcCoyThen they should include GNU as well. "SteamOS GNU/Linux" or something.

You mean "SteamOS GNU/Debian/Ubuntu/Gnome/Apache/Yocto/Valve/Linux", I presume?

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Quoting: liamdaweHonestly, I like nothing less than people who try to force people to say "GNU/Linux", for one who cares and two it sounds crap. We don't need to confuse people even more.

Please rename your website to gamingongnu/linux.com IMMEDIATELY.

EDIT:
Take a look at this:
http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/ [External Link]

It shows that only about 9% of LOC in Ubuntu in 2011 were GNU. Naturally this would have been significantly different in the early 90s - when the whole [GNU/]Linux thing originated. Of that 9%, about 1% of which was glibc which was replaced in most major distros with a non-gnu fork eglibc (embedded glibc). I'd hazard a guess and say that SteamOS would probably have less GNU userland than Ubuntu. GNU's important to Linux isn't what it once was, calling a Linux OS "GNU/Linux" is like calling a PC "IBM compatible".

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Quoting: Quote from ShmerlSo, can you install and run them without running Steam? I thought it was impossible for any games offered there. To provide DRM-free offerings Valve should address the installation / backup step first.

You install them via Steam, then you can copy them out of that SteamApps/common directory and play them without it.

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Quoting: Quote from neffoI'm not sure it's true that the DX9 redist isn't required post-XP. I think it's required (at least) for anything that uses D3DX. (See here [External Link] Plenty of games still use D3D9 though, which is good for us Wine users.

Umm, that does not mean that MS has to still offer that package as a download. The devs can get it from them by other means.

Hopefully, I'm wrong and nothing changes :)

I see you posted before you read the link and ninja edited. :P

Games will need to distribute it in order to check the correct version is installed, so it'll be part of the installer for the game that needs it. Microsoft can't revoke that.

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I'm not sure it's true that the DX9 redist isn't required post-XP. I think it's required (at least) for anything that uses D3DX. (See here [External Link] Plenty of games still use D3D9 though, which is good for us Wine users.

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Quoting: Quote from Half-ShotGot surveyed today in wine, but I cancelled it quickly before I was placed in the windows pool.

Steam knows you are using Wine (it records the version), so it's probably counted under "Other", which everyone assumes is Linux (although could just as easily be largely Mac Wine).

Also, apparently if you exclude yourself from the survey you don't get asked again.

Also it won't be every Steam user (it's a survey not a full statistic)

Census, I think you mean. /Nerd out.

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Quoting: Quote from JWI've been declining the survey using wine for awhile, cause it will say I am using windows =)

the steam survey detects the wine version correctly, so it's probably showing up in the "other" column. the only time i have gotten the steam survey has been under windows and wine, but under wine it detected it as wine 1.7.8 correctly.

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Quoting: Quote from Anonymous

Quoting: Quote from SilviuThe linux depots seem to be populated as well. They were empty/unused just a few days ago... Exciting times :)

It can be fake, to get more money.

It's not profitable to fake games on Linux.

:P

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