I will celebrate if and when they follow through. Been a Linux gamer for almost eight years now so I have seen a lot of devs fail to follow through with promises. I'm a simple man: if they make a game I like the look of and make a Linux version i'll pay full price for it. Here's to hoping !

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Quoting: MisterPaytwickNot sure the maths checks out for millions, but a real big bunch of money still. While many users are free riding and it's a bit of an issue (let's be honest, even $5 a month can be done, but it has to be figured out how to explain it and put it in front of people...), it's nowhere near what companies do.


But thanks to PublicNuisance reminder, guess I'll go the way of putting aside a fixed amount per mounth.

I was going off of Linux usually being somehwere around 1% of Steam user base and Steam having over 100 million users. 1% of 100 million is $1 million. It's gets murky when looking at active accounts and such so I was keeping it general. Glad regardless if you decide to start donating !

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Thanks for the heads up. 2D puzzle games aren't always my thing but this looks interesting enough to go after.

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It can be very easy if you break it down into small bits. Every pay cheque I try to put aside $20 to donate to a project I use. $20 doesn't seem like much but at the end of the year it adds up to $1040 into the FOSS ecosystem. Even if you did $5 a week it adds $260 a year. Can you imagine if every Linux gamer gave just $1 year to something ? The total amount going into FOSS projects would be in the millions. Most FOSS projects donation pages are depressing if they show public results. We can and should do better.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMm. Native, sure. But does Proton work on Mac OS?

I'd trade Proton for more native games.

Quoting: CatKillerNot by much. In 2022 there were 1,791 native Mac games released on Steam compared to 1,411 native Linux (and 12,706 native Windows).

Assuming your math is correct you would trade 380 native games for winning some dumb survey ? Is this really where the Linux gaming community is these days ?

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Mac OS still gets more native ports for games. I'll take more native games over winning a survey on a site I don't even frequent.

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In no paticular order here is my wishlist for Linux in general (i'm keeping it to 5):

- More FOSS game engines used. I can think of at least a half dozen FOSS game engines off the top of my head so there is little reason for developers to not use them more

- More financial support for FOSS programs from users. Go to the donation to any FOSS project that displays public donations and you'll get depressed fast. Even many of the more well supported ones could make more money flipping burgers.

- More open source firmware, especially for GPUs. We have been in a good place for open source drivers for a while now and only getting better but firmware remains closed source on any GPU worth a damn.

- More DRM free games. Ideally i'd say more FOSS games but if they have to be closed source at least don't dogpile DRM onto them.

- Steam support for ARM; RISC-V and Power9. I don't love Steam like many of you but i'm no fool. I want more marketshare and support for those platforms and I know if Valve releases Steam onto them then people will follow.

This is my wishlist, I don't expect many fo them to actually happen sadly.

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Jokes on you Valve, you can't take all my money if i'm already broke. Damn car......

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I don't see a reason not to be excited over this. Got a couple of keyboards i'm looking to replace so I could see this being one of them alongside the MNT Reform USB Keyboard.

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Was able to get Vulkan working on my gaming desktop on my RX 590 but not the Pinebook Pro. Also hoping for good gains on the Intel HD 530 I have when I get around to testing.

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