When will we get a Linux game radar signal, from Feral? :)

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Quoting: tuxisagamer

Quoting: tmtvlIf we have to select a distro to be the "default", I'd like to suggest Gentoo. We tend to be more aware of what can cause problems on our systems and how to fix it compared to people who run, say, Ubuntu and don't know half of what's installed on their machines.

There are a copuple problems with that. One is that each individual Gentoo user can set different USE flags so software may be at the same version but be compiled with completely different options. Another is that you want to officially support the consumer version of the OS. Game companies support Windows Professional and Home not server. Same concept.

Anyway, the choice is not ours. It's already been taken out of our hands. If you want a ready to go gaming experience, better stick with Ubuntu, as supported by Valve, and change the desktop UI if you mind. KDE, Unity, Xfce, Lxde, Gnome, to name a few, are all available and you still have the full Steam support.

There is Mint too that is quite near to Ubuntu, from what I understand, and Debian that is the base for SteamOS, Ubuntu and Mint... Btw, why isn't it officialy supported by Valve?

Personnaly, I stick with Ubuntu-Unity because it's the best "out of the box" experience for my 42" HDTV.

Unless gaming is not your priority...

That's the way I see it, at least.

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A bad game is a bad game, I don't dispute the point but I always try to remember that massive gaming on Linux, as a whole, is still in a beta stage, if I may say so. Lot's of things needs to be done to better the experience starting with the hardware we use, the distribution we use, the API's complexity (OpenGL) and the GPU drivers.

Developers that decides to jump into the Linux adventure just can't google it to find a "how to port a game on Linux" like we do for so many of our problems. They have to find the solutions themselves and are often creating the precedent and the future reference. They are learning to walk and we should stop complaining because they can't run.

In the gaming market, Linux love is 15 years behind Windows in it's development and we should keep that in mind before attacking a developer. Remember the first games available on Win95? The best we can do is to give our feedbacks to help them learn faster.

This said, my point of view is a general concept, there are always exceptions to comfirm the rule. :)

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Have you taken a look at the feral radar signal?
"One step beyond" with a baseball BAT... Signal... Bat... Bat signal.
I don't know... Just a guess...

Just a question... What proves that it's the new signal? It's probably something they have been working on for some time now... Am I wrong?

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From reading many discussions on the steam forums, It led me to conclude that SteamOS is more OEM oriented for the Steam Machines (consoles) than a full OS for users to install on there own, like we would do.

This is why so many of us still have lots of problems when installing SteamOS on their computers: we don't have the required hardware to make it work perfectly.

Valve probably concentrated their efforts on making SteamOS fully compatible with the offical Steam Machines that are going to be sold. They probably already reached their goal in that aspect and it could explain why SteamOS development is stopped, atm.

For desktop users, like us, Steam prefer to recommand debian based Linux (officialy Ubuntu) with Steam client.

These are just my conclusions and you may disagree.

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Quoting: FutureSutureOne of Batman's top villains is The Penguin...

That would be very nice and a kind of game Linux love has not seen yet.

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Doesn't matter... I'll buy whatever it is just to thank their great efforts on supporting Linux. :)

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If at least it can find the right ears...
Just need to express yourself on that discussion. Be it a "+1".
It'll bring it on top at every comments added.

Search for Linux Releases as a topic. You should find it in the Steam Universe group.

French... Great! I'm not the only one! :)

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Quoting: dubigrasuBut as (almost) always there is this lack of advertising for Linux people.
Yes, there is an announcement on their store page, but I don't see it anywhere else. ex: http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

If a game has simultaneous Win/Linux release (ex: This War of Mine) that's fine. But if the game was already released for Win a while ago, tough chance.
If you go to Steam and narrow everything down to Linux and new releases you'll find Gettysburg on page 5.

Steam needs a page with "newly released for Linux" games regardless when they were released for other platforms.

(good thing we have this site and Steamdb)

Just posted a request for this on Steam forum.
Let's wait and see...

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Wow!

Just took a look at the full games' list published for MAC by Aspyr... If they could port all these games on Linux it would be awesome!

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