I'm shocked! Valve doesn't accept bitcoin as a payment option? :)
Oh gosh the speculative bubble money you could make off that happening.
Portal Released For Steam On Linux
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Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#62Steam is now the de-facto "app store" of the PC as far as games go, which was no small feat. It took them more than 10 years to get to this point and it's now in jeopardy. With Google and Apple already controlling the mobile app stores, various console manufacturers controlling their own ecosystems, and Microsoft attempting to abandon their "open" Windows (so they can run their own app store) - the industry is shifti…
I would sympathize with Valve if they didn't completely ignore Linux before acting like the Linux community's best friend when it became apparent that they had nowhere else to turn to [1]. Like many, I'm a fan of their games and their flat management, but they have a history of being as short-sighted and callous as EA and I wish more people would see that [2]. I have a lot more respect for the people behind Humble Bu…
Valve has a history of being as short-sighted and callous as EA and I wish more people would see that [2].
Your citation [2] doesn't in any way support that viewpoint. Actually, there probably aren't any citations which support that viewpoint, because EA is about as far opposite from Valve as a gaming company can get. (Zynga is likely the polar opposite.)
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They are in danger should Microsoft ever gain a significant foothold with the Windows Store. Microsoft can turn off "side-loading" of software in Windows and lock everyone into their walled garden. If Valve hasn't successfully migrated away from Windows by that point they will be completely screwed.
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This is how OSX is by default now. I'm relatively new to Macs but I was pretty surprised when I had to go into my preferences to enable the ability to run software downloaded from the internet (not from the Mac App Store).
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Yea my mouse is wonky as hell in Linux. Keyboard drivers too :( The mechanical keyboard I have at home doesn't even work in linux. Every keystroke registers as three other characters (e.g. the F1 key types out 'mij'). None of the keys work. But it works flawlessly on Windows. I realize this is as much the keyboard manufacturer's fault as anyone, but it just adds one more thing I'd have to sink hours into if I wanted…
Weird. I use a Das Keyboard and a $10 logitech mouse. I've never had any problems with mouse or keyboard on linux, ever. They have always 'just worked'. Is everyone with these stories using some obscure hardware which requires propietary windows drivers and/or some obscure distribution or something? I'm not trying to be snarky or dismissive, but I've been using Linux for the last 14 years and I've never had any of th…
No, I've never had to download some weird proprietary driver for windows, keyboard or mouse. Doesn't work to me on vanillia ubuntu, dug around for a few hours trying to find a solution before just giving up and uninstalling.
The lack of games is my main issue - if that was solved, I may go buy a keyboard that works on linux :p
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I play games at 1600cpi with a specific mouse with no acceleration. Even with the supposed fixes that disable acceleration in GNU/Linux, I don't get the same cursor response with my mouse that I would in Windows. In addition, my mouse's cpi can only be set to 1600 in software. This is especially problematic as I tend to play games where mouse accuracy is very important.
Watch out guys, we're dealing with a-- okay, just color me surprised that anybody needs that much accuracy. I stopped playing shooter games in ~2004.
You stopped playing shooter games in 2004.
Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux
#66Sweet. Now hopefully they bring DOTA2 over next. That game will lead to a ton of Linux switchers!
Agreed! And for OSX as well :).
They're going to have to I think if they want to compete with League of Legends.
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#67Now if we can only get semi-stable, long-term graphics driver support for Linux to be able to play these games. I think there may be light at the end of that tunnel, since hardware vendors seem to be providing more support for Linux now.
when that day comes, I am sure many would switch to Linux, especially among the developers. In the past few years using Windows, I have stopped thinking about device drivers at all, I just expected them to work. I am looking forward to the day where this comes to desktop Linux.
I've been using Mac OS since OS 7.1 when I was ~14.
All through high school and my Bachelor of Software Engineering degree, and now working full time, I'm completely dumbfounded when Windows or Linux users talk about device drivers.
What a shocking waste of time.
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This is how OSX is by default now. I'm relatively new to Macs but I was pretty surprised when I had to go into my preferences to enable the ability to run software downloaded from the internet (not from the Mac App Store).
As long as they provide the option to enable it, I actually don't see what's wrong with this. If someone can't figure out how to change that preference, then they are exactly the type of person who shouldn't be running random executables off the Internet.
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Watch out guys, we're dealing with a-- okay, just color me surprised that anybody needs that much accuracy. I stopped playing shooter games in ~2004.
You stopped playing shooter games in 2004.
Yes, I said that.
s/surprised/bemused/, I suppose. AAA games are srsbzns.
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>The software industry is heading in very bad directions, and this is at least a glimmer of hope. I don't buy this -- Steam is just another walled garden app store with the same conflicts of interest that we're used to seeing, such as giving top billing to their own products on their store, using DRM, promoting itself as an advertising space, etc. The problem I have is: where are all the GPL'ed games? The Torque Engi…
> The problem I have is: where are all the GPL'ed games? All the id engines have gone GPL. Ogre3d is a popular engine base. A lot of game studios use some derivative of Unreal 3, which Epic will never GPL because they make money selling rights to it. Most other engines, even beyond that, will have some proprietary inclusions that they don't hold licenses over, such as with the JK launch. The lack of community FOSS ga…
I suspect the biggest reason this hasn't happened is that the big studios want engines that can also target consoles, which don't have publicly available SDKs. It would be hard for a project to ensure that they weren't constantly breaking the console ports when they might not even be able to run nightly builds and share the logs publicly.
And, of course, software patents are a constant threat.