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SR 2 is awesome, and the fun part, while being the port of the windows port, it behaves a lot better than the windows version assuming any windows version < 10.
You do need to install the audio pack (see github), as some of the audio cannot be played.
VP got a black box to "port", the original sources are *lost*, even the studio that owns the game does not have the sources anymore.
So yes, all the windows bugs are expected, but they are exhibited less than on windows.
I was sad when I finished the story :-(.
SR4 worked on fglrx, so I assume SR2 works on that too, although I replaced my intel/ati steam desktop with a dedicated steam machine (nvidia), and that seems to work even better. (wine doesn't really work on steamos :-( )
SR2 works fine with a steam controller.

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I played all other SR titles with Linux support, but this was neglected for too long. Currently I'm on Black Mesa but this one will be scheduled!

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Quoting: silmethgave actually not a single argument against using Rust… (and not that there are none – eg. ecosystem is still a bit immature, but games written in Rust still start appearing on Steam right now.

Rust is fucking excellent for game dev, and I will choose it over any other language every single time.
The only downsides are;

Some projects such as rust-sdl2, glium, glutin etc, are still a little immature; however, they are absolutely entirely useable right now, and it's pretty darn easy to keep on top of updates and changes.

Learning curve - the fucking borrow checker. But honestly, this is overcome fairly quickly once you understand how it works, and why it works that way. It does seem to lead to better understanding of how to use pointers in other languages and a larger awareness of the problems they can cause too.

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Not into the Saints Row games, but, being that it's free I'll give it a go

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You can also redeem your SR games you own on steam on gog via http://gog.com/connect.
Maybe they will ship the Linux versions in the future, too.

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QuoteHaving Linux support fall behind other platforms is a sad reality that I think Linux users need to be understanding of. If a game is already released on another platform, then I'd have more respect for a developer who gives priority to existing customers over customers they don't yet have - the opposite only suggests that we'll be treated poorly when we are finally supported!

Except in the case of Kickstarters we're all existing customers, so we're already being treated poorly.

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QuoteThis wasn't what you were asking; mostly I'm just telling you that I'm really bad at Capitalism. I understand why being a good _consumer_ demands that we demand same-day releases, but being defined by what we swallow and how quickly we get to choke it down is just not a way I want to live.

THIS.

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Quoting: LeopardNetmarket Share statics is doesn't mean anything. They're all looking to Steam Survey and that is right thing to do. Not every user play games on Mac and Linux also even Windows.

Sorry, but no.
The Steam Survey is first of all a survey, not a statistic, and secondly, it's a hardware survey, not an operating system survey.
It has two uses:

• What hardware does a random selection of Steam users have?


• What internet speed does a random selection of Steam users have?

Neither of these are a statistic for the number of Linux users on Steam.
Now, granted, it does mention operating systems, but it's not the focus and it's well known that the numbers are skewed, and not in Linux's favour (less Linux users are asked and SteamOS is not counted at all).

I'm not trying to be harsh here, but I do believe that the perceived relevance of the "Steam Hardware Survey" as any sort of metric for the number of Linux users is largely useless and ultimately harmful for our community.

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Quoting: buckysrevenge...
It's also on GOG connect along with other SR games

You can get it for free, without to buy the other SR Games, but it's Windows only.

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Quoting: BdMdesigN

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: BdMdesigNOn GOG its free, too.

As clearly stated in the article, GOG do not have Linux versions.

Yes, i read it to late. ^^

It's also on GOG connect along with other SR games

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You have to be realistic about F1 games. They're a niche in itself. If you look at the sales numbers on Steam, you see that most are around the 150k mark. If Feral can only get 1% of that for a Linux port, then it's going to be really hard to justify the investment.

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Seems he is doing this game to prove that his upcoming laguage Jai is good enough to make a complex game in. And when you want to interest programmers interested in modern programming languages, you have to show that your code runs on Linux and macOS (and, preferably, other Unixes).

So it makes sense that he will build this game for Linux just to show it is possible, so that his language cannot be rejected by his audience on the presumption that it’s Windows-only. It doesn’t mean he starts loving Linux or he will do anything beyond this proof-of-concept on Linux ever.

Also, I’ve just read a few things about Jai here – I don’t have time to listen to Blow’s own presentations on Youtube right now to verify correctness of this source – and the section called WHY NOT USE C++/RUST/GO/D/SWIFT/HASKELL/LISP/ETC? gave actually not a single argument against using Rust… (and not that there are none – eg. ecosystem is still a bit immature, but games written in Rust still start appearing on Steam right now.

But, anyway, the Jai language itself looks quite nice for somebody who just wants a little bit more polished C, with a little easier (but still very manual and pretty cumbersome) memory management (and certainly better than C++ in that regard).

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Quoting: daconmat321As somebody who is a major fan of these games, I'll give some insight as to why F1 2015 never sold well and why not bringing F1 2016 to Linux is a bad call from Feral.

You make good points, though I wonder if cutting 2016 from Linux was a decision from Feral or Codemasters. Either way, I wish Feral would say something more about it so the community can know what to do to prevent this from happening in the future.

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The game is glitchy. Performance is bad. On top of that it stutters while driving. This causing some of the optional races not to be fun.

So all in all, I highly recommend this game! :D

Provided you have enough power to offset the performance issues somewhat.

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As said ports are varying quality. Saints Row 2 has pretty bad performance, which is bit of shame as that one was best open world game of the available ports. What I have read is that having game on SSD or even in RAM helps somewhat. Also Gentlemans Row mod should fix some issues. I haven't tested any of that myself.

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell has audio issue: https://github.com/virtual-programming/saintsrowgat-linux/issues/1

Workaround is to restart the game.

As for continuity, now it's at least possible to play them in correct order. Saints Row IV was one of the first ported games and that makes lot of references to older games.

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Quote...I wasn't very impressed with the port personally...

Indeed, this is one port from VP that I'm not happy with.
While the performance is acceptable for me (considering the state of the original Windows version) the graphics are botched in many places (bunch of textures are just black).

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Quoting: nIQnutnSR2 is very bad port, unplayable for me.
It was in a bundle, so I won't complain.

I really hope Agents of Mayhem will be available on Linux.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/304530

It seems they don't want to talk about it yet:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/304530/discussions/0/208684375407420405/#c208684375409381112

... but I do like this one. :)
http://steamcommunity.com/app/304530/discussions/0/208684375407420405/#c133262738419512556

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: BdMdesigNOn GOG its free, too.

As clearly stated in the article, GOG do not have Linux versions.

Yes, i read it to late. ^^

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SR2 is very bad port, unplayable for me.
It was in a bundle, so I won't complain.

I really hope Agents of Mayhem will be available on Linux.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/304530

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Quoting: BdMdesigNOn GOG its free, too.

... and they offer a money back guarantee! ;)

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Quoting: BdMdesigNOn GOG its free, too.

As clearly stated in the article, GOG do not have Linux versions.

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I wonder how one can tell free to keep from free for some days offers on Steam...

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On GOG its free, too.

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Great reading, good job with this article, as with many others.

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@Al3s @jsa1983 @vickop:
Dying Light requires OpenGL "compatibility profiles"

Quoting: Samuel Pitoiset(...) For example,
Dying Light requires a 4.4 compat profile but overriding the version doesn't
work. More work is needed if we want to support that game.

(source)

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Very good insight into linux game porting background.

But this

QuoteMany game developers are not even super users so getting around on a Linux distro can be a challenge to the average developer. Even translating what a Linux player has in a bug report they send to a developer can be a challenge.

makes me very sad. I'm a developer myself (not a game developer) and I can't understand how somebody can even use the Microsoft OS for developing. I tried it for a few years and I never want to go back there. Only thing that makes this system useful for developing is MinGW. But this is only a small substitute for a Linux OS.

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I completely regret buying this game 2 years ago when I had Nvidia hardware. They have not yet added Mesa compatibility and it seems that they have no intention of doing so

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Yeah, well... Jonathan Blow may be a nice guy and all, making great games, I really disliked his aggressivity aginst Linux in general. He's a big voice in the indie game dev community, so what he says resounds a lot in many people's ears. I'm waiting for actions after that, not just "oh, I changed my mind". The Witness was a great occasion, he missed it. He's not the only one (hello 2dark) so I'm currently a bit fed up.

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Eh, that's ok. I can live with companies that give their best to make something happen and discover while implementing it, that it was more complicated than they thought. It's not like the garbage some other moron studios pulled on us when they decided they'd rather work on some irrelevant Windows-related updates and not the Linux port they promised when they collected all the Kickstarter money from us.

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Quoting: GuestWe need more performance, i'm not playing the game because of this.

Really..? I can't see, why you actually need to have high fps in a board game like Civilization. Certainly, on low-end hardware, the game is stuttering. However, you don't need a high-end rig to play it properly. I do my "good-night Civ 6 sessions" with playable performance on a i5-4200U + 730M notebook (with integrated GPU it's pretty unplayable though).

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