Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeAlso, even with the open source stuff, you have to try and get latest Mesa on your system, and that's generally a pretty major thing to do on many of the binary distributions (not so bad on something like Arch.)

It's only as major as you are not yet familiar with building Mesa from source. Once you learn that, it's noting major, just compilation time.

I personally disagree. It's much harder to build Mesa from source on a distro like Ubuntu or openSUSE than Arch or Gentoo. Thankfully, you can get around this by using PPAs/ "1 click installers" which can provide binary versions of mesa git.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Xpanderi upgrade the nvidia driver all the time when latest version comes out, yet i have only been getting a survey prompt 3 times during all those years steam on linux.

heck i have gotten more surveys when i launched steam in wine and that happens super rarely

Exactly the same here.

IDK I updated and downgraded the Nvidia driver to about 9 different versions trying to fix a problem with Torchlight 2 and half way through doing that my computer got a survey (it was the middle of the month and I had launched steam plenty of times before). Naturally though, I've gotten probably about 3 surveys on Linux in 2 years across 3 computers which is 0.5 surveys per computer-year, but I've definitely been luckier than the average Linux user.

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I wonder what portion of the Steam survey is answered by card farming "bots." Hell, I wonder if answering the survey even matters at all? Maybe choosing no gives it to another person with the exact same hardware/software setup as you (it would explain why Linux users seem to get fewer surveys since they are more eager to answer them).

Also updating or downgrading Nvidia driver version at least on Linux can cause the steam survey to retrigger on Linux (and there's probably similar problems on Windows too) so it's not exactly a hard survey to "game."

More and more the Steam survey becomes a statistical anomaly compared to other surveying methods. If this was 538 it would have a very low credibility rating because of this.

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Wow. I've never thought I would buy a console. Especially not one made by Atari. But I'm actually tempted to depending on how much control it gives me.

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Quoting: RafiLinuxWould there be any benefit in allowing users to post more then one machine?

As someone who games on both a laptop and desktop as well I agree this would be good. But I don't think it's fair for people with multiple machines to have a greater influence on the statistics. If it's ever implemented, then the statistics should be based on an average of every machine a user lists.

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According to the Steam comments the Linux version is missing an executable.

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As someone with way too many hours in X3, I can't wait for this game to come out. Also once the Steam version releases (and I can get my hands on some assets) I'm gonna try to compile it myself for the fun of it because an open source game is so cool in this day and age. (also because I kinda wanna see if it will build successfully on my Raspberry Pi even though I know its specs are too weak to run it)

So wish me luck.

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Quoting: michaThose who read clearly have an advantage.

Or, as Mark Twain (supposedly) said: "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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Quoting: MaCroX95Liam, I agree that pushing a button is not everything it takes, but the difference is if the game is optimized from the ground up for the cross plat then it can be said that it requires not much more than push of a button, but of course the techniques and dependencies need to be cross-plat. I believe it is hard for devs to compile a linux version of a game that was designed for windows in mind purely... That's where the devs screw up during the development.

As a general statement, yes, but in this case I disagree. Devs screw up choosing Unreal 4. Almost every game ported from that engine to Linux has problems and bugs and stuff doesn't work right and usually it ends in delays/the Linux version being canceled outright. In theory Unreal 4 supports Linux, but in practice all the work on it comes from just one guy who Epic isn't even paying.

A large number of indie games these days that promise Linux but fail to deliver were made in Unreal 4. The Other 99, Inner Chains, Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

Epic needs to get its shit together and hire a small team to fix their engine on Linux.

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Just throwing this out there but it could be Zombi, a game about surviving zombies in London. If so then it would be their first Ubisoft game, which would be good for us because it would mean a huge company interested in porting to Linux.

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