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Nice! I'd love if it would support racing wheels.

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>steam
>most restrictive forms of DRM

...What?!

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I get the survey every month as soon as I start Steam using Wine.
I never get it on the native client.

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Quoting: Ba7a7chyI thought it was meant to be a free DLC ?

It's free for backers(Kickstarter or Paypal) only. If you're backer and haven't received a key, you should send them an email.

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This looks like funny tongue in cheek anti NSA propaganda. Love it :D

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Quoting: GuestWhy the hate for 32 bit? 32 bit programs are often faster, and use less RAM than 64 bit ones. Besides, who cares? Both work perfectly fine. (And yes, I do have a 32 bit processor in one of my computers.)

Sometimes loving something is more about hating everything else than really loving anything.

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Quoting: tuxisagamerI wonder if Kubuntu shows up as Ubuntu or other.

check your cat /etc/lsb-release

the part where it says:
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Arch Linux"


thats detected, so if you have Kubuntu there, then you are not in the Ubuntu list

people without lsb package are under general "Linux 64bit" or "Linux 32bit"

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Let's not forget about giving likes to our YouTube videos! Sharing articles directly is more efficient, but giving a like to a video helps the video rise in Google and YouTube search results and potentially allows us to gain viewers (and readers) that wouldn't otherwise be aware of our existance.

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BTW, when the survey appeared to me, i was counted as Linux 64bit (I use Arch Linux)

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I thought it was meant to be a free DLC ?

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Its another 12+ hour campaign in a new environment, so pretty much a new game you just have to consider it that way really. I was thinking it was overpriced but its cheaper than the game and as I said same sort of length so kind of worth it.

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Shadowrun returns is an enjoyable game. But the price for the DLC is a bit steep (14Euros).

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: liamdaweAlso, I can't say i've heard of 32bit programs being faster than 64bit?

I was sure I had seen benchmarks showing that 32 bit was faster for a significant number of programs, but a phoronix search showed this http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1210_3264&num=1 where 64 bit is indeed almost always faster by a significant margin. So looks like I was wrong.

I thought your comment was odd heh, I always remember 64bit being better than 32bit. It is not just more RAM that makes it worthwhile.

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Looks like there is a Bug in the Linux version. They are uploading a Hotfix apparently, in the meantime you can follow this:
"
Hey Folks,

There is a casing issue with the latest patch on Steam. There is a Hotfix going up very soon, but if you wish to play now please follow the following steps:

1) Right click on Shadowrun Returns and click 'Properties'
2) Select the Local Files tab and click 'Browse Local Files'
3) In the revealed folder, go to Shadowrun_Data/StreamingAssets/standalone
4) Rename the Seattle folder to seattle.
5) For Dragonfall users, rename the Berlin folder to berlin

We apologize for the inconvenience to our Linux users.
"
Source: http://steamcommunity.com/app/234650/discussions/0/558749190573195545/

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Quoting: GuestWhy the hate for 32 bit? 32 bit programs are often faster, and use less RAM than 64 bit ones. Besides, who cares? Both work perfectly fine. (And yes, I do have a 32 bit processor in one of my computers.)

Not hate, but 64bit only in the future is inevitable as games grow. It can also create issues for some developers having to support both.

Also, I can't say i've heard of 32bit programs being faster than 64bit?

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Quoting: GuestWhy the hate for 32 bit? 32 bit programs are often faster, and use less RAM than 64 bit ones. Besides, who cares? Both work perfectly fine. (And yes, I do have a 32 bit processor in one of my computers.)

I still have several 32 bit only computers on my network simply due to the hardware. Some people forget how popular Linux is on older hardware. I also only have one or two machines on my network which have more than 4 GB of RAM, which is one of the main things that makes 64 bit attractive.

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thanks for the news, I'm looking at the stats right now and CPU frequency and Physical CPUs now shows data for each platform as well and it is quite interesting:
- Intel is slightly more common in Linux systems compared to Windows system
- Linux users must still have quite a few P4 around (Intel 3.7 GHz or faster)
- surprisingly the number of system with a single core CPU is increasing among Linux user (the percentage consistently increased from 3.73% (Sep13) to 4.51% (Jan14)

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*fixed*

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Quoting: adolson

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: adolsonEh... It seems kinda silly to complain about having yet another game in any given genre, regardless of saturation level. Especially on Linux.

I completely disagree, we have a massive library of games now and it is easy to get bored when a vast majority of them have very similar game-play - platformers.

Don't buy them?

I don't.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: adolsonEh... It seems kinda silly to complain about having yet another game in any given genre, regardless of saturation level. Especially on Linux.

I completely disagree, we have a massive library of games now and it is easy to get bored when a vast majority of them have very similar game-play - platformers.

Don't buy them?

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Wow, I didn't even know they couldn't before now.

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Quoting: Beardy

Quoting: killx_denWould you be happier if they had made HL3 instead of Steam for Linux? ^^

Nope. Having Steam on Linux and Valve's massive Linux push is far more important. Windows is a dead-end with an xbox-like UI and an MS app store as the ONLY way to install *anything* waiting for you in the near future. Sod that.

HL3 will happen when it happens. It'll probably be the first Source 2 engine game, unless L4D3 gets there first. Although why anyone thinks we need another L4D game is a mystery to me.

Agreed, without Valve pushing Linux now, the future of PC gaming would be fragile.

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There are 10 different windows versions in the survery... that's the good thing about that OS, developers only need one computer for testing, as there isn't any fragmentation :D

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Quoting: killx_denWould you be happier if they had made HL3 instead of Steam for Linux? ^^

Nope. Having Steam on Linux and Valve's massive Linux push is far more important. Windows is a dead-end with an xbox-like UI and an MS app store as the ONLY way to install *anything* waiting for you in the near future. Sod that.

HL3 will happen when it happens. It'll probably be the first Source 2 engine game, unless L4D3 gets there first. Although why anyone thinks we need another L4D game is a mystery to me.

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Quoting: BeardyMore reasons why Valve isn't an evil empire in the making. I bet quite a few devs and publishers will be happy with this news. Valve may be a bit slow with some things but they seem to get there eventually with the important stuff. Well, except for the obvious game sequel that shall not be mentioned. ;)

Would you be happier if they had made HL3 instead of Steam for Linux? ^^

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I wonder if Kubuntu shows up as Ubuntu or other.

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I wonder how the 39.26% "other" in the Linux version statistics breaks down. It apparently got a sizable bump this month (+7.62%!)..

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More reasons why Valve isn't an evil empire in the making. I bet quite a few devs and publishers will be happy with this news. Valve may be a bit slow with some things but they seem to get there eventually with the important stuff. Well, except for the obvious game sequel that shall not be mentioned. ;)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: edgleyNow, correct me if I'm wrong but, the totals leave 0.10% unaccounted for?

These are the proper totals, including what was originally in "Other" since they took it out.

There's absolutely no way these include all the 'Other' numbers, unless you believe that absolutely no one is running Steam on a 32-bit Linux other than Ubuntu 13.10 (and I know I am).

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I was surveyed in Steam whilst in Manjaro a few weeks ago rather surprisingly, so I guess I'm in the "Linux 64bit" category. Never had the survey pop up whilst in Linux before and I was in the Steam Linux Client beta way back when so I've only had to wait ~16 months for that! Maybe the glitch with not sending surveys to Linux clients has been resolved? My guess is it hasn't and I was just lucky to get the survey because I'd expect the Linux share to rise a little once that particular glitch (or whatever is behind it) has actually been sorted out. I'm pretty sure that there's a large amount of Linux only users that still haven't seen the survey ever. I've had it multiple times whilst in Windows in the last year. When I was still gaming on Windows a lot I used to get the survey most months. Now I'm mostly gaming on Linux I've seen it once in Linux and 3-4 times in Windows (which I rarely touch these days). Usually I see it Windows when I haven't booted into it for months and the survey pops up as soon as the Steam client loads. Most annoying.

Quoting: minjI for one am glad to see 32 bit linux going away.

32bit in general needs to die. It'll be 30 years old next year (the Intel 80386 was the first 32bit processor, released in 1985). That alone is a reason to kill off 32bit. Everything really should be 64bit by now. In fact, where's my 64bit flying car and/or hoverboard? Hollywood lied to me!!!!!!!!

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