Looking good; I will probably wait for the first staging 3.0 release before trying it out.


As for the whole AMD v Nvidia thing; I have only owned 2 Nvidia cards and both of them since I strated gaming on Linux. When I was a windows user I would buy the AMD cards as cost wise they were better for my meagre at the time budget. however when I decided to seriously game in linux I found the performance of my Radeon HD5550 to be sorely lacking, now that may have been because I was using FGLRX and I wasnt knowledgable enough at the time to know otherwise. But I upgraded from that to a GTX760 and that allowed me to ditch windows for gaming as performance withe the proprietary driver was good enough for my liking. Last year I upgraded again to a GTX1070 once again AMD was simply not mature enough for me at the time (Many Feral games requiring workarounds I wasnt comfortable with yet). Now when I finally replace the GTX1070 (in 5years or so!) I will propably go AMD. But for now I am Nvidia based.

That said my next CPU will definately be a AMD, though prob not until Zen2 in 2019 as my 4670K @ 4.5Ghz overclock crunches the numbers well enough for me.

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I have this backed on kickstarter, did this based on Hairbraineds previous showings coming to Linux so I will give them the benefit of the doubt at this point though if the delay gets too long I will seek a refund and ensure I dont fund before the product is released.


Still looking forward to this game though.

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Quoting: HoriI really like those small portraits DLCs :D They add much diversity to the game. On a huge map (even bigger than what vanilla offers, when using a mod) it's pretty common to meet species that look almost identically among the minor/primitive ones, and that's quite annoying.

Would be nice if the game limited itself to no more species fallen/major/minor/primitive than there are portraits available.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusBack to Stellaris it sounds like the Cherryh update will significantly shake up gameplay, and while I can't say I'm 100% happy with the FTL changes I have faith in Paradox that they're doing what they're doing because they sincerely believe it'll make the game better and more fun, so I'm willing to give it a go with an open mind.

Im looking forward to this patch, as they have labelled it 2.0 its going to be like a new game. Like you I enjoyed the variety of FTL options and mostly played wormhole tech races.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism.
People seem to like the combat most , but that's just and outsider opinion.

I do enjoy these games, though I do prefer the map layer to the realtime battles.

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Quoting: g000hAll I was doing was sharing my view on why the percentage Linux gaming market-share stands the way it does. To summarise - It looks worse than the Linux user market-share, because a lot of Linux gamers resort to other platforms because their favourite games are not available on "our" platform.

Nothing wrong with that; and strictly speaking your right in cases were a non-linux version exists people play on other platforms & WINE especially for the AAA titles. On the whole I game primarily on Linux of the 3 evening I get to game 2 are spent on Linux the other is on my PS4. All we can do is support developers who provide native versions, but I would think some leeway and understanding must be shown to newcomers to the platform that may still want to experience the AAA titles I was in that boat myself at first. 2014/2015 I would game on Linux where possible but still buy windows versions of AAA titles I wanted to play and dual boot. Eventually I went 100% Linux and now only buy Linux native games and I think this soft transistion is one most gamers will take.

If only the Steam survey had a way to matk WINE installations it could go a good way to showing developers a better picture of Linux demand for their games.

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Quoting: BTREMore to the point: these past few days I've mostly been covering for Liam, who has been busy moving and has had limited internet and computer time. Your thanks is still very appreciated! :D

I realise you have been covering, but would be great to see you post more often in general. More regular contributers means more opinions and a larger section of games covered all while preventing anyone person getting burnout.

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Quoting: DuckeenieMicrosoft make their most contentious OS ever we also got Steam and yet Linux usage still remains proportional the same? How are these findings encouraging? These findings are an absolute disaster for anyone who believes that Linux desktop will ever hold a meaningful market share.

Well probably for a number of reasons:

> Windows 7 is still supported so many who dont lke Win 10 may have simply not upgraded and kept their existing win 7 install.

> Of those who upgraded / got a new PC with Win 10, many who are gamers may still not be a technically minded and thus either wont want the hassle of trying to convert to Linux, may not even have heard of Linux.

> Some with large libraries of unsupported gams may not want the hassle of WINE and all the concessions and setup it requires


So yes Win 10 maybe as big of a disaster as Vista for MS but for someone to convert to Linux so many other factors have to come into play; The person has to be aware of Linux, they have to be at least somewhat technically minded (Most Win users will never have installed their own OS), then they have to be willing to use alternatives to many popular windows applications (Possibly a block if they maintain a paid version of any software), they have to be willing to use WINE if there is any game without a port tyhat is essential they play, the list goes on, uptake will not be instant but a steady swell.

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Quoting: g000h

Quoting: wojtek88@g000h While I love Linux and I love playing games on it, I am not going to forget about Sony titles. I have PS4, I play on it all the time. The only rule I have is: Never buy on PS4 games that are already released on Linux. I can't see how would I help Linux gaming if I weren't buying Uncharted series games...

Well... two obvious ways to me:

1) You spent your money on a PS4 game rather than an Linux game. One less Linux game being bought and going into the analytics.
[You don't feel you would be doing more Linux gaming, if you hadn't bought a PS4 and PS4 games to use on it?]

2) You're playing a PS4 game instead of a Linux game. Hours of Linux gaming being lost in the Steam/publisher analytics.

I enjoy gaming, some games are not on Linux, some are not on PC at all. Now I dont buy games for PC that dont support Linux (and havent since Jan 2016 when I went 100% Linux), but I have a library of games that includes titles only playbale via WINE and I will happily play them that way, though I am currently working through my Linux library so its only really Gwent I play there, yes I know that is after 2016 but its free and I have it on my work Win10 laptop as well for when Im travelling mostly.

Then we get to the non-PC games, I have a PS4 so I will buy the odd exclusive game there as well.



Im a gamer that happens to like using Linux, I am not a Zealot, and I feel telling people to play only on Linux is counterproductive. People have vast libraries of games some of which will never be ported. WINE is ideal for this, some may even be recent titles that wont be ported and with the hopeful rise of Vulkan WINE should be able to run these smoother going forward. But we wont convince those people to switch even if they are interested if we as Linux users lambast them for choosing to game via WINE, or dual Boot, or even on console.

Yes support developers who make Native Linux versions, and support the porting houses Feral, Aspyr, VP and others. Do so vocally (and constructively if things need fixing) so they know we appreciate their work, this is important, but Linux is about freedom and choice, you cant espouce those virtues and then try and dictate/guilt trip people by saying their choice on how and where to game is wrong.

Just my opinion, feel free to disagree :D

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Quoting: EhvisI personally abuse PlayOnLinux to install various wine versions if I feel like testing something. I don't generally use the install scripts though.

I do the same, find it very useful; for managing different Wine versons needed for various games.

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