Quoting: KristianSomething I hadn't thought about before seeing you mention webGL in your post: There is a webGL, will there be a webVulkan?

I don't think this is ever going to happen, since vulkan allows you to access hardware at a very low level, this would probably be too dangerous for web applications. Moreover, you need to be able to adapt to every supported gpu out there if you go the vulkan way ( handling different memory bandwidth, and capacity, etc, if you want to do it correctly). While this is certainly doable for big engines, I don't see every web developer doing this.

Don't quote me on this, however, I am not a specialist, and there are people better fit to answer you :-)

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Steam should offer arm builds of its client, in my opinion. And games too :-)

The steamboy could be interesting, especially if there are emulators pre-loaded with it. I could see myself playing those emulators, as well as simple platformers on it. But I don't think PC games are designed with energy usage in mind, I am afraid that even the simplest platformer might be an energy sink. Well, they will probably conduct some testing, and adjust the performance governor (or at least show an option to do so).

I don't see how Bluetooth might be useful, apart from earphones. But USB OTG... Just imagine connecting four controllers to it and playing splitscreen :-P

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I will pick it up in the next sale :-)
How many players can play split screen at the same time?
Hopefully, next on their agenda is workshop integration (my bad, it's already here, let's say advanced car customization, then), as well as a drm-free version. Friends' ghosts would be pretty awesome too.
Is it well integrated with steam ? Like you can invite your friends in your race, and such?

Next on my wishlist is underground 3, I hope it gets ported to Linux.

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This game looks really good :-)
Plus, I love local co-op games.

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Quoting: linux_gamerIt also wouldn't be a problem at all to just send 1 additional byte to identify the OS every time users log into Steam.

2. Sorry, I couldn't resist :)

When I was using steam on windows, I was getting the survey quite often. Once every 2-3 months maybe, on the same install.
But I didn't get it more than once or twice on my computer in two years.
So, either I have bad luck, or the survey is buggy on Linux. I got it last time I logged in on windows (that was to allow a computer for family sharing). Previously, silentely dismissing the survey would have made it appear on my Linux box, but it didn't worked.

It could also be Valve keeping the numbers low enough for whatever reason (yeah, it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but they could use the numbers to claim that they were in fact the big actor making people switch over to Linux after the SteamOS release, or whatever reason they want).

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Unfortunately, no UE4 game works yet on OSS drivers (not tried this one, though, I have the feeling this would be wasted money).
It's the worst kind of crash : gpu hang, the only way I found to get out of one is to connect myself via ssh, and kill X. However, dpm won't recover after such a hang.

I hope it will get sorted out quickly, before the bulk of UE4 games starts kicking in :-)

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Thank you for your review.
I personally have been using a R.A.T. 9 for at least five years now. Its look may be a little bit futuristic, but I love it :-)
However, you need to edit your Xorg.conf in order to avoid any problem with it (the mode button acts as three buttons, which are not released when selected, and confuses X. The feature I love with this mouse is the thumb horizontal scroll wheel. It is awesome once you are accustomed to it, but needs the X.org.conf remap too.
I created a python driver to configure the sensitivity, it can be found on my Github account (MayeulC), together with the necessary adjustments to the X conf. I have to get the power indicator merged with upower, too, once I know where to put the code.

The other equipment I use is also a Saitek one, since I always found their products amazing. It's the Cyborg V7 keyboard. The programmable buttons don't work, but are available via a hidraw device. If anyone know how to make a macro software (how to talk to X, etc), please drop me a word.
About the keyboards, I don't particularly like mechanical ones, as long as the build quality of the membranes is great. Am I the only one thinking this way?

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This one looks good, but it seems like they are using UE4, which hangs my system (R600g), even with the lightest demo.
Well, that makes one more item on my wishlist.

@the one who talked about Gear Up (I am on my mobile, I don't really want to go back and look who said what, sorry), how did you manage to get it running ? It crashes on startup for me, and I am not the only one.

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Thanks for the reminder, I almost forgot to take the survey :-)
You should do this every month ^^

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Interesting results, thank you for this survey. What I would like to see is the drivers used by vendor (I wonder if ~80% of nvidia users are using the blob, while the same is true about AMD and open source users :-)

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