Ha! I could hear his two cubicles away. Was driving me nuts. But then again, there is another guy around the same area (fortunately he works from home a lot) that insists on using a Model M keyboard... I was nicer to my co-workers and bought a Matias Quiet Pro for there.

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I love the MX performance mouse, I had one at home, and then bought another one for work (used the first one so much that the mouse button stopped working, so I popped it open and replaced it with some switches I ordered from China!) I eventually bought the Roccat Tyon because it has a ton of buttons and it matches my Roccat Ryos MK Pro very nicely. So the second MX went to a guy that I work with because I couldn't handle listening to his crappy mouse wheel scrolling through tons of code making that grinding noise.

For those who haven't used the MX Performance mouse, there is a button for quick scrolling that makes it silent :D

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I know I mostly went back to keyboard/mouse for FPS games, but now that I think about it, I should try it with the gyro. With the exception of aiming, I would rather sit back and use the gamepad.

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Ah Cannon Fodder. Been playing that a bit here and there on my Amiga 4000D, of course had to stop for a while because my accelerator decided to take a dirt nap :( Finally got my 060 back in the machine, so maybe it's time for some more :D

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QuoteThey clearly don't care about mass, but about quality of feedback and so should we. Then we'll be getting exactly the kind of devs we need, Windows can keep said 9-5 zombies for all I care (you know, the kind of dev who whines that Linux users give too much feedback).

9-5 Zombies making Zombie games... :D

It really is the love of the Indie developers that don't get exclusive deals and are just there to get their game out into the world that have built up the Linux side of the Steam library.

Reminds me of Cold War, a game that the developers actually created on Linux, and they tried very hard to get it released for Linux, but then their publisher didn't want to bother, so Linux Game Publishing finally managed to get the rights to publish it.... and now to this day you can get it on Steam for Windows, but not Linux....

Too bad we can't get LGP's games through Steam. Whatever happened to them, anyhow? I bought as many games from them as I could.

Good on these Devs for releasing some Linux binaries. I'll buy their game, but I want them to know that I bought it for supporting (unofficially) Linux!

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I think it's the auto-updates that really is going to kill Windows for many people, not just gamers. I've had Windows 10 already do that to me. "Updates are set to install, please schedule a time" and if you happen to then be working/playing/whatever at 2am and forgot that you'd scheduled it, too bad.

Not to mention my boot loader defaults to Debian, so when Windows does that, I wake up with Linux loaded.

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Quoting: mr-egg


[quote=slaapliedjeMy experience with the Link so far;
It really hates multiple monitors on Linux (seems to work okay on Windows), and tries to display all three screens (I have two 1920x1080 and one 2560x1080... all crammed into a 1920x1080 resolution on a 55" tv....)

might be fixed on an update, there is a steamOS reddit thread where this was fixed yesterday

QuoteFallout 4 played great on it, though when you're walking at full speed, you get streaming artifacts. Yes I have it wired (though there are two switches between my desktop system, one in the living room and the main switch in the room between, will have to fix that soon).

a switch is a passive unit, hence the name. If its an unmanaged unit all its doing is working a bit like a cable real power adapter allowing you to bridge connections further and use more devices, that said if you have one cable in and lots out then there could easily be collision domain but really im thinking the fast movement thing is identical to every other form of compression in existence .. its blocking artifacts. Good job there are no racing games yet on Linux.[/quote]
There is Dirt Showdown? I'll have to try that out, see how it goes. Yeah, I have the PS4, TV, Bluray Player and my Amiga 4000D going through that switch, then onto the other one. Granted most of those aren't turned on at any given time. One switch is managed, the other isn't (the one in the living room).

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I'm hoping the Witcher 3 is waiting for a 'Game Ready' driver from nVidia or something (would that mean Vulkan ready?) They released one for Fallout4, and whatever other games came out that day.

Here I thought we have left the driver per game days behind us...

I'd still like for this moderator to be wrong, it doesn't seem like he really has any actual contacts, and was just being a dick during the whole thread. I really wanted to play this game, but I'm not going to buy it now, because of how the whole discussion went down. If they actually release it for Linux, I'll reconsider.

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For my post, I'm running Debian Sid (Windows 10 for Fallout 4) and I have a 980 GTX, with the i7-6700k. So no CPU/GPU issues here :D

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My experience with the Link so far;

Trine 3 had a weird issue where the sound was slowed down horribly, seemed to work the next time I played though, so maybe it was fixed in the update that happened in between.

It really hates multiple monitors on Linux (seems to work okay on Windows), and tries to display all three screens (I have two 1920x1080 and one 2560x1080... all crammed into a 1920x1080 resolution on a 55" tv....)

Mark of the Ninja worked fine, except the random switching of windowed mode to full screen, then back... though again, I think that was partially the three monitors.

Fallout 4 played great on it, though when you're walking at full speed, you get streaming artifacts. Yes I have it wired (though there are two switches between my desktop system, one in the living room and the main switch in the room between, will have to fix that soon).

I think the biggest problem is games like Trine, Starbound, Chaos Engine, etc, that have separate launchers before you get in-game. They're a pain to navigate to get the game started.

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