Quoting: GuestSo... the people that "waited" for this game, have they actually played it before? :p
The more games we get, the better I suppose... but personally I won't come remotely close to this one tho :D

The king of QTE (quick time events)

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Haha, I literally just bought this for the Atari Jaguar last week.

So, with my luck I had bought a few others and first tested I-war. It wouldn't load, so tried a few tricks, ended up unplugging the JagCD and tried a few restarts and got it to work. Then tried to get Dragon's Lair to load... it wouldn't read the disk... well, long story short.... many hours later and a resoldering of a few wires, it works again... but by that time it was 4am and my brain needed sleep. I recently got Space Ace as well, are they porting that to Linux too?

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Ha, actually distrowatch's 'hit' list is how many times someone has looked at the distrowatch page for that distribution this month. So yeah, it's a crappy metric, but there is some interest in it. Most people who are going to look into SteamOS aren't going to be doing it through Distrowatch.

I'm really curious on what those "Legal reasons" were. Seems to me that Debian is just a better choice for so many other reasons. Upgrades for Debian have always been far smoother and Ubuntu likes to randomly break things (in my experience). I've had an Ubuntu install corrupt a hard disk to the point it looked like it was failed. Ended up cleaning up the partitioning, then putting Debian on it and it was fine.

Edit: I did check some random games, and under the requirements tab for SteamOS + Linux, some say Ubuntu 12.04 or better, some say Ubuntu 12.04+ and some literally just gave processor, memory and disk space. So there is no 'standard'.

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Edit:

Says right on the page, you just need to download the firmware update file.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm not saying you're wrong, but where does it say that Ubuntu is the only supported distro for Steam? SteamOS would be the one, I think the only reason most games show 'minimum requirements for Ubuntu' is due to them not being updated.

I don't think that's due to it not being updated at all. Ubuntu is for all practical purposes the supported distro when it comes to Linux gaming today.

Let's be real: Nobody uses SteamOS, and SteamOS was originally intended to be based on Ubuntu but changed to Debian due to some licensing issues. Steam has always had a focus on Ubuntu and all games for Linux that has a distro restriction in regards to support, restrict that to Ubuntu (and maybe SteamOS but again, nobody uses SteamOS. Most doesn't even bother mentioning that distro).

Pretty sure SteamOS was always going to be based on Debian. The rumors were Ubuntu based, only because that is what would show up in 'requirements'.

What licensing? I think they probably decided on Debian because it's slow moving and stable as a core, then they can update they few things that matter to gamers (kernel, and video drivers). There has never been a focus on Ubuntu, that just happened to be what they first got the port working on. Pretty sure the Steam package was first officially in the repository of Debian backports.

While I myself do not run SteamOS (though seriously considering getting one to replace the Link, which I keep having poor performance for audio, and even the audio decides to die on me) I am sure there are others out there who are. Distrowatch lists it as 78th most popular as right now.

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Quoting: natewardawg

Quoting: MalVirtual networking? Why? Shouldn't a sandbox just have some configurable ports to open or re direct? It's all that is needed.

I'm not sure, but you may be right. If you can get Steam to somehow not know it's already running on the same machine it would probably work.

Quoting: MalThere is a misunderstanding. What you say only holds for the on-line status: on a cloud service you are supposed to have one account per user which imho is totally reasonable (and also much more technically manageable). But here I'm talking about splitting screen among local users. No cloud involved. On my windows partition for instance I used to run 3 instances of borderlands off line and play splitscreen using the LAN multiplayer. But my windows partition is long gone, it's not going to be necromanced back but I'm still looking to finish that game one day or another.

Ahhh, okay, that makes sense. I've never even looked at LAN options withing Borderlands. I didn't even know they existed.

Ugh, this right here pisses me off.... remember the days when we all had the option to play on-line or in a LAN configuration? Broderlands is one of the few that still have it. Or we're also cheated out of things like split screen local play (consoles have it). Personally I love playing LAN more than over the Internet. I mean you can't do the "I just used the ax in Quake to frag you 8 times in a row" dance when they can't see you.

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Nice! I'm going to have to give this a try on my 2560x1440@144hz monitor.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoteso many bugs from so many different distros

Ok, not to be a jerk or anything but to be bluntly honest here, in this context I think Linux users on other distros than the officially supported distro on Steam - Ubuntu - should just stuff it and stop reporting bugs and either find a solution themselves or dual boot into Ubuntu for gaming. Plain and simple.

Yeah, harsh I know, but it's only doing us a disfavour at this point in time to spam developers with issues that only occurs due to their exotic window manager, sound architecture, graphics drivers or distro quirks. You're not doing anyone a favour, guys. Nope.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but where does it say that Ubuntu is the only supported distro for Steam? SteamOS would be the one, I think the only reason most games show 'minimum requirements for Ubuntu' is due to them not being updated.

Realistically they should say something like "Linux Kernel version: blah, nVidia Driver: blah or AMD driver: blah, CPU: Memory: disk usage:"

Back in the Loki / LGP days, that's exactly what it did because they had cross-distro support. Steam is very Distro Agnostic. I've even ran it on a CentOS7 system.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloUbuntu 12.04 (from the year 2012) is still supported, and will be until 2019. https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life

I have no idea if compatibility with Linux is harder than with Windows. Windows devs have to make sure that the games work with 7, 8, 9 and possibly XP.

No, it really isn't. 12.04 is dead. You have to pay for extended support, just like RHEL 5.x

Pretty sure anyone on the planet that uses Ubuntu to game on isn't going to stick with such an old distribution.

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This games is seriously awesome. Play it on the hardest difficulty, monsters are invisible most of the time..

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