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Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By Kurremkarmerruk, 2 July 2013 at 8:50 pm UTC
I got the survey on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit!  I was wondering if it would ever happen!

Another thought to bring to the table: changing your OS is a big decision, as the year wears on (especially closer to holiday season) it will be more likely to increase as some finally decide to make the switch when upgrading (especially when dealing with a Windows 7 license!) or even getting/building a new box.
Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By Mike Frett, 2 July 2013 at 7:19 pm UTC
So is anyone else having issues with Wine 1.6?. As far as AAA games, Leadwerks will probably help out in that area. But if you're talking about EA etc, I really don't think I'm interested in yet another rehashed Call of Duty.

EA, Bioware and the rest always stick to formulas that sell; original games aren't what they do. This is where Indie comes in, they are filling the gap for originality now, Linux doesn't need the big companies anymore. A few of these Indie companies might turn into a big boy one day, and that big boy will probably be working with Cross Platform Games like they begun with. I think the Future is where Linux will shine.

For now we can sit back and watch these other companies go bust like they've been doing. I'm not in any rush. And to be quite honest, I don't think the Steambox will be that big of a success, at least not with the pitiful amount of Games currently available and not with that $500-600 price tag. But we'll see.

Incidentally, I keep wanting to click 'Checkout' on a Ouya, but I keep reading bad reviews. I'm very turned off about there not being any price tags on Games. You basically have to keep playing until you run into a paywall, and even then there may still be hidden fees associated with the Game. That's almost like blackmail.
Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By Xodetaetl, 2 July 2013 at 5:42 pm UTC
Quoting: tigerWith no triple A games supporting linux, those numbers will never grow. Simple fact. Give it one more year
Why would fat blockbusters support Linux if those numbers don't grow?
The only chance for this to happen is if Valve manage to make their Linux-based box a success.
Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By , 2 July 2013 at 5:31 pm UTC
With no triple A games supporting linux, those numbers will never grow. Simple fact. Give it one more year
Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By Mike Frett, 2 July 2013 at 5:07 pm UTC
I'll be honest, I use to get sad about such news. But knowing what I know now about various things such as the NSA and the deadweight of the Microsoft relic, I wouldn't turn my back on Linux. I enjoy the absolute freedom I have and the red marks on my wrists have disappeared since I switched full-time last year.

Most people are just not educated enough to know about alternatives. I'm thankful that my family and friends had me here to help them all switch. I wish more had a person to take those chains off their wrists. It might be a while, but I think the more we help our friends and family and educate others; the faster we can hit 2+%.

And I want say/ask about Wine 1.6. I don't know if I need to reinstall it from the PPA or what, but all my games and such are broken now. Civilization 2 crashes and so does Theme Hospital. And Photoshop cs2 doesn't work at all anymore, but I use GIMP now anyway. Any tips guys? It was all working before the PPA upgraded me to 1.6.
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By Mike Frett, 2 July 2013 at 4:46 pm UTC
Double plus good muntdefems, I enjoy these Grab-bags of news items.
Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By Xodetaetl, 2 July 2013 at 4:43 pm UTC
Meanwhile, worldwide Linux usage continues to grow since the arrival of Steam, according to statcounter.com.

I give more credit to statcounter than netapplication/netmarketshare. The latter looks really made to appeal to big businesses' websites (they proudly show that big capitalistic enterprises use their services) , its web analytics tool that collects stats is a paid product (Statcounter's is free) and they disclose less information on their way to collect and use the data than Statcounter.
Which means that the sites that use netapplication's tool are a specific kind of sites, and not the kind that the average Linux user will visit the most.

I don't use Steam, by the way. Too much DRMing, can't launch games without Steam, lack of options to manage my game files, etc. In short, lack of openness and freedom.
So instead, I'm contributing to an upcoming open gaming platform that will hopefully compete with Steam in terms of game usage simplification and community features in a not so distant future.
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By muntdefems, 2 July 2013 at 4:21 pm UTC
Article completed with the Hidden Gems, sorry for the inconvenience. :S:


Quoting: liamdaweYour pictures for the home page make me constantly "lol" good work munt. Great job both of you :)

Thanks. :) As a matter of fact, with this one I've run out of images for the articles. I'd better find new ones before I have to resort to draw them myself... :P
TinyKeep dungeon crawler will now fully support Linux!
By CFWhitman, 2 July 2013 at 3:58 pm UTC
If that plays as good as it looks then I'm there.
Minecraft to get a new more useful launcher for the 1.6 release
By , 2 July 2013 at 3:54 pm UTC
on the minecaft update 1.6 it wont let me play any multiplayer servers. what do i do?
Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By , 2 July 2013 at 2:36 pm UTC
I am glad to see that you are not so pessimistic as some people that say "oh, Steam Linux users are decreasing...", I am using Steam for Linux since the secound wave of beta test and I never was asked to participate in this survey, but, when using Steam with Wine, I was asked like 4 or 5 times, so, I really don´t take thesenumbers too seriously, of course they are important to measure some aspects, but they don´t represent 100% of the truth, since they are not that accurate.
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By Liam Dawe, 2 July 2013 at 1:48 pm UTC
Your pictures for the home page make me constantly "lol" good work munt. Great job both of you :)
Steam's June hardware survey results are out!
By , 2 July 2013 at 12:53 pm UTC
I know you pointed out already that the 1.28% statistic is probably wrong, but here are a couple of links to point out how wrong it probably is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Measuring_desktop_adoption

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/09/debunking-the-1-myth.html

I would say there are two major contributing factors to why we're still not beating OS X: DRM and our small list of games.  I've been running Steam through Wine a fair bit, lately, trying to play through Metro 2033 (so I can get to Last Light) and Deadpool, testing out The Secret World, etc.  I even got asked if I wanted to participate in the survey last week while I was running Steam in Wine (I declined, because it was in Wine).  If these games were available for linux (or if I could run them through Wine while still using Steam for linux), I would in a heartbeat - but they're not, so I continue to run Steam through Wine.  I assume that I'm not the only one using Wine or dual booting in order to play games, especially with some pretty good Windows-only releases of late, and comparatively few games with linux support.  Oh, and the Steam sale - I've been watching, and most of the games that do support linux don't appear to be going on sale.

And then, yes, linux users are more likely to hate DRM.  They're also probably more likely to decline participation in hardware surveys and stuff, too, because of privacy concerns.  And so on.

Hopefully, we'll get some exciting releases soon that will bring our percentage back up.
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By Bumadar, 2 July 2013 at 12:25 pm UTC
The UK kickstarters, the fact it does not use amazon pay, I got a feeling that they doing worse then if they would have been on the US kickstarter.   For myself I rather not enter my CC info again somewhere, what I read in forum posts on other places about for example Satellite Reign confirms my feelings, buuut I could be wrong :)
Steam has greenlit more games for Linux!
By techheadz, 2 July 2013 at 8:37 am UTC
Well we can no longer say there are not enough games for linux.
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By , 1 July 2013 at 9:14 pm UTC
Quote* You can’t destroy blocks with a sword in creative mode
Finally. Now I won't destroy my buildings trying to kill a bunch of sheep.
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By , 1 July 2013 at 5:39 pm UTC
Quoting: GeorgeThe issue is that its making pointless security holes to my system. I don't like Mono, Flash and AIR either, so I don't care if one is better or worse than the other, all of them are bad. (although I cant get rid of flash because of YT and such)

Use Open JRE (jre7-openjdk on Arch) instead of Oracle's proprietary blob, and don't use it in your browser.

Coming from a sysadmin perspective, Kernel exploits (like the root escalation issue with Red Hat / CentOS recently) are more of a problem.
Steam has greenlit more games for Linux!
By Liam Dawe, 1 July 2013 at 5:31 pm UTC
Quoting: tigerOnly one game has linux support and the others "will" have in the future....

Also, not impressed by anything here, pretty lame titles IMO.

[ this "prove you are human" captcha sucks, and if you enter it wrong your post is deleted, great! ]
Yeah I'm not too impressed either, not until they all come out anyway.

As for the captcha it is necessary or else we get a lot of spam, I will sort out it not deleting comments now though.

Edit > It will no longer delete your name and comment if you fail the captcha, enjoy!
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By , 1 July 2013 at 5:29 pm UTC
Still nothing to make this game fun to play
Steam has greenlit more games for Linux!
By , 1 July 2013 at 5:27 pm UTC
Only one game has linux support and the others "will" have in the future....

Also, not impressed by anything here, pretty lame titles IMO.

[ this "prove you are human" captcha sucks, and if you enter it wrong your post is deleted, great! ]
Race To Mars - turn based strategy on KickStarter!
By Bumadar, 1 July 2013 at 5:06 pm UTC
I do like the looks of this one, a little bit more gameplay in the video would be cool, but yup I like it :)
Steam has greenlit more games for Linux!
By Speedster, 1 July 2013 at 5:02 pm UTC
Quoting: BumadarCognition: An Erica Reed Thriller........ putting that on my "follow"  list..... looks good

The Erica Reed dev team is currently working on Moebius for Jane Jensen, who got funds through her kickstarter to add Linux support
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg

Moebius is re-using a lot of the Unity code from Erica Reed, so when they do the engine upgrade towards the end of Moebius development, they shouldhave a lot of groundwork done for upgrading Erica Reed next.
Steam has greenlit more games for Linux!
By Bumadar, 1 July 2013 at 4:50 pm UTC
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller........ putting that on my "follow"  list..... looks good
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By , 1 July 2013 at 4:39 pm UTC
Quoting: avarisclari
Quoting: GeorgeStill requires java? I'llstill pass...
And what exactly is the issue with Java? It's better than Mono, Flash, AIR
The issue is that its making pointless security holes to my system. I don't like Mono, Flash and AIR either, so I don't care if one is better or worse than the other, all of them are bad. (although I cant get rid of flash because of YT and such)
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By Mike Frett, 1 July 2013 at 4:19 pm UTC
Quoting: GeorgeStill requires java? I'llstill pass...
It does, yes. But if you just like putting blocks together and playing around, you can try Minetest; it's a decent clone. I play Minecraft, but not on servers or with Monsters, I always play in Sandbox mode. I never really liked Multiplayer games due to too many bad experiences. But yeah, try Minetest if you don't like Java.
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By Liam Dawe, 1 July 2013 at 4:07 pm UTC
Quoting: GeorgeStill requires java? I'llstill pass...
You honestly think they would rewrite the whole game?
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By avarisclari, 1 July 2013 at 2:25 pm UTC
Quoting: GeorgeStill requires java? I'llstill pass...
And what exactly is the issue with Java? It's better than Mono, Flash, AIR
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By , 1 July 2013 at 2:22 pm UTC
Still requires java? I'llstill pass...
Minecraft 1.6.1 The Horse Update is out!
By avarisclari, 1 July 2013 at 2:05 pm UTC
Quoting: edgley
Quote- Removed Herobrine

Always my favourite change. They keep the myth going :)
I'm still waiting for them to add City Ruins.
Steam has greenlit more games for Linux!
By Liam Dawe, 1 July 2013 at 1:48 pm UTC
Indeed I was rushing on it oops. Will fix the title.
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