Quoting: lucifertdarkI still have a Windows partition but it's not exclusively for playing games, I use Lightroom to edit photos, if the day comes where the Linux offerings are as good as Lightroom I will switch & have one less reason for keeping Windows around.

I think Darktable is awesome, but then again, I'm just a hobbyist with relatively basic needs. Also I've never used Lightroom, so no way to compare. In any case it's worth trying out if you haven't already.

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Quoting: WorMzy... i3 is still there for some reason..

i3 is great, [...]

I'm sure it's a nice window manager, but it's not a DE.

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Quoting: MGOid@tuubiWell, actually, Wine performance is better than the VP ports. And Wine works with all kind of software.

Wish things were that rosy with wine. Please, try playing the games VP has ported with EOn using wine instead and report back. A look at wine's appdb sure doesn't bode well.

There are tons of old games that work great with wine, but often require a lot of fiddling and - well - some luck. Sure, I hear POL makes things easier, but hardly as easy as installing a pre-wrapped game and just playing. Personally I'm not attached enough to any windows-only games to find it all worth the effort.

IMHO EOn is better than nothing for older games, even if it is the easy/cheap way out. In any case VP is not the one to blame here. It's the game's developer or publisher paying VP to do their thing.

EDIT: typo

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Quoting: MGOidI'm praying to God that all of the others big names that will launch in the near future, like Grid, Batman or Witcher 3.

AFAIK Grid and Batman are already confirmed to be native. No idea if anything's been officially confirmed about W3 despite Valve's teasing. Besides, I very much doubt VP programmers are incompetent. Unless you think wine developers are incompetent as long as wine isn't perfect. The performance "penalty" is just the price of wrapping instead of actually porting, and this decision wasn't made by VP.

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I'd love it if the controller can comfortably replace the keyboard/mouse combo on the living room sofa even for some of the use cases. That's what Valve tells us but I won't buy anything until I see actual tests from unbiased reviewers. I have no interest in Steam Link or the pre-built Steam Machines though.

Quoting: kalinIt's seems Bulgaria is also excluded. It's probably available only for USA Canada and England as always.

Not quite. Seems to be available in most Western European and Nordic countries at least.

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansHasta la vista. STEAM FTW!

A monopoly never benefits you as a consumer. You want Steam to have competition, believe it or not.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo the fact that the Ubuntu and Debian home pages don't say one word about Linux means that they don't care about Linux as a whole?

Debian also has a version with the FreeBSD kernel. You can't really call the whole distro Debian Linux or something like that if the Linux part is optional. I think that's probably why they dropped Linux from the front page. Ubuntu did it purely for business reasons though, just like Valve.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI still don't have a real clear idea about what "gamergate" is or why I should care.

Don't worry. Half the people actively involved in the debate don't seem to have any idea either. Some of them work under the premise that it's all about ethics in games journalism, and for others it's about gender equality among gamers. Personally I'd be happy if we kept GOL free of politics. Google will tell you everything you want to know and more.

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Quoting: InsperatusThis may influence some people's interest in the game, I know it does mine.

Why would it? Doesn't make the game better or worse.

(I agree with flesk though.)

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Terminal Velocity was awesome back in the day. I never really got into Descent or it's sequels, but this I played quite a lot. Sadly I bet the game has not aged well.

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