The important thing to take away from this is that a major statistic site is giving added weight to our significance. No sense in nit-picking the technological mechanisms and merits of their authenticity as if we were all scientists and engineers.

An official source is saying that Windows and Mac are having a user decline. My opinion is that they are doing things unpopular enough to cause a user-decline which will lead to more (1) Linux Users (2) Linux Developers and (3) Better Software Improvements (4) Larger Market Cash Pool to Buy Things, etc...

This is how a snowball starts. ( The snowball technically started when Ballmer created Windows 8 and stopped respecting their users and then was denounced by Unreal Developers and Gabe Newell )

The snowball is rolled up 3,500 games and tons of software patches and fixes and upgrades across Linux. I suspect the snowball will continue to gain momentum and we'll see a healthy increase in these areas.

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GTA V
Final Fantasy XV
Skyrim
The Witcher 3
StarCraft II
StarCraft Remastered
WarCraft
etc...

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Thats okay, they will suffer the loss.

Theres no defining characteristics to them now so they will become irrelevant and loose lots of money.

Poor decision making not taking into account behavioral pshycology on spending and developing cult loyal followers like they could have had.

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Quoting: TheRiddickDid the latest UE4 engine update have Vulkan API option?

Yes, latest UE4 has Vulkan.

This is just a situation of hard-love. If we allow our standards to be so low that we accept being treated as sub-equal to Windows, Mac and Consoles -- developers will be conditioned to treat us as so.

There's a time to call a developer out for product defects and a time to say please and thank you, -- they're all part of the same balance -- everything in its right proportion -- I'm glad to see this article in my feed today.

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I play this with my girl on Linux sometimes.

On a i7-6700k GTX 970 with SSD it takes probably 30 seconds to get to the loading screen which lags to all hell.

Then launching the server takes about 4-6 minuets while locking up the computer (No alt tabbing or you'll be sorry)

Then you better pray there wasn't a patch and it doesn't have to update your data files or you're out a few more minuets.

Then connecting the second Linux Gaming PC #2 has to be done within the first 60 seconds or else the server on Linux Gaming PC #1 has to be restarted to fix some rediculous broadcast issue.

Oh and did I mention when loading the server list you have to ninja type in your friends server name or the client will explode will downloading the data.

I seriously xkill Ark so many times.

All in all: It takes a good 20 minuets just to login to start to play. I don't know who programmed their menu or thought it would be a good idea to have a lag-fest when loading a server list instead of seperating client and server model and using a fucking asynchronous data call to get data and having a seperate Draw() or fucking UpdateTheFuckingList() function -- but nope -- I guess going with the whole freeze your client to shit method was the way to go.

The water has been broken for about 2 - 4 months, it's a joke.

Maybe it's called "Survival Evolved" because the user needs to survive the evolving shitfest that is the client.

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If I didn't have other expenditures I would gladly make the jump from RX 480 to VEGA, AMD has been a great ride this last year.

I think these cards could get good juice and at the right price I'd be down.

Then the other direction pulls me to look for the smallest, coolest card available for Mini ITX builds like the RX 470 Mini.

Pretty hard pick IMO. Nvidia is out of the question with their closed drivers.

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I solved the camping issue in my game by calculating if enemies were within X range of the randomized spawn point in the spawn point array.

5 lines of code outta do it.

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A lot of my Linux crew hace commented on the art being really well done in tha trailer.

I hope the story, mechanics and level design are equally amazing.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotThis year is the year of the Linux Desktop, next year is the year of Stardew Valley multiplayer.

Pretty sure the `Year of the Linux Desktop` has already come. For most of us it was the Year in which we switched to Linux full-time.

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Quoting: WorMzyI am still not convinced that this game needs MP... still, it should appease the people who have demanded it since day one.

I'll give it a go with my girlfriend when it drops, and maybe I'll have a change of heart.

"Need?" Not really.

But for some demographics like couples it'll be a home run. I know so many couples who are excited to play SDV.

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