The one thing Wine truly needs is a good UI. Prefix management, vital software installation, etc. is so far purely done on the console - and not really in an intuitive way.
Winetricks isn't exactly easy to use, either.

And PlayOnLinux is just years behind in maintaining a useful list of games.

They should really invest some time to "just make it work" or easy to use.
Right now, you always have to fiddle around with it to get anything to work.
That is the number 1 reason many people don't even try use it even if it could run their games.

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The New Map sounds interesting to me, but I'm not playing without mods anyway (it's simply too easy) so the hidden features that modders can make use of are what's really important to me.

I wonder how much money I spent on those EUIV expansions by now...
But I guess games that I have spent way more than 400 hours on are allowed to cost some money every now and then ;)

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: mcphail[...] [Investment -- the act of putting money or effort into something to make a profit or achieve a result](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/investment).
I.e. to "back" a project is to put your money in hopes the product in question will be made. [...]

I don't think you understand the definition correctly. You put in money to get a profit (a business investment) or put in effort to get a result (a personal investment). I might be wrong, of course.

You are most certainly wrong here. The act of investing just means you expect something in return. What that something is, is completely open. In general, of course, it is investing money and hope for more money in return.
In case of a KS campaign, it is investing money and hope for a game you would like to play in return.

Quoting: cprnCrowd funding where some of the users get their product and some not is simply scam.

A scam is when you promise something and then don't even try to deliver, with the intention of never doing so.
That Which Sleeps comes to mind as a KS scam. Or Unsung Story.
And there are many others where people basically just vanished with the money.

But everyone putting money in KS knows (or should know) that they are paying for a dream, or some hope.
There's no guarantee whatsoever and there shouldn't be - as you said correctly, crowdfunding is NOT preordering.
If everything works out positively, the end result is the same, though.

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I honestly think the numbers of linux users are actually growing, but slower than those of Windows users.
Most likely due to Steam getting momentum in the Chinese market - which is afaik mostly Windows.
That would also explain the totally weird growth in Windows 7!

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Quoting: Jmsnz

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: BerenNetmarketshare removed their September figures altogether.

Wow...

wtf? Apple complain?

For those that are 'but the Coffee shop is full of them!' that's because most of the people who will go to buy an overly expensive coffee to feel like they are socializing, but instead just to sit around with their face buried into their computers are douche bags. And as science has proven, most people who buy macs are douche bags. :)

It’s comments like this that reflect poorly on a community.

Nah, sounds relatively accurate to me.

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Quoting: Alm888Meanwhile, on Steam Linux continues its journey down…

That survey is pretty bonkers, though. I was surveyed twice in my entire Steam life, each time I was on Windows :/
Besides, it shows Windows 10 at -5% and Windows 7 at +5% for Sept. 2017.
That's just nuts, something can't be quite right there ;)

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What the heck is ChromeOS?

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Quoting: Ads20000

Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: GuestYep, 99% of the market trumps the 1%.

It's 3% not 1%!

It's something like 1-2% still, looking at the Wikimedia stats and ignoring the mobile OS's (with the mobile OS's included in the total that the %s are calculated against it's 0.3% non-Ubuntu desktop Linux, 0.2% Ubuntu, 0.4% Chrome OS).

Not very reliable, is it?
That is just the visitors of the wikimedia sites.
Netmarketshare accumulates from over 30,000 sites ;)

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No time to test it?
Well, that speaks volumes...

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What is the actual downside of playing a synthetic race?
Seems pretty overpowered at first sight.

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