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>>485
>It could even persuade me to take a Playstation 4, if only there were other games that could be interest me on this platform.
The PlayStation 4 really gives justice to Grand Theft Auto V's online mode. Other than that, run away from PS4 while you still can!

And Xbox One is just as hopeless since 48 hours ago. If I manage to move out from my parents' house (although not a matter of full haste), my next-gen (the gen after the current next-gen... ish... what the heck did I just write?) console would probably be a Linux living room PC. (Linux-rambles from here on:) Sort of like the slated Steam Machines, but with more game vendor support and somewhat decent desktop-program functions. I have far from given up the wishful thinking of using Cubuntu for such a console PC, as it's an Ubuntu derivative that appreciates the right of closed-source programs to exist.

>>489
>The PlayStation 4 really gives justice to Grand Theft Auto V's online mode. Other than that, run away from PS4 while you still can!

But... how about the giant gryphon! D:

I'm a Linux user from years (I'm rely on it for games too), and I have not checked the statuts of Linux catalogue from some time, but is became richer every week and with some high-profile games in list. But there a lot of stuff that does not will comes on this platform, so I would suggest you to keep Windows if you think to rely on some only-windows games.

Eventually you could try Wine, that is the best choise to run very old software for the older Windows versions (all games from Win95 to Win.XP: I run all this old stuff under Wine today), but for new games probably you will have hard time to make them run.

>>493
I guess there's Wander too. I know little about it, but a non-fighting MMO with exploring griffons must sound like a refreshing MMO. Also, bonus points for actually admitting that the whole game is online. It was a colossal turn-off to me when Journey, Destiny and Need for Speed: Rivals forcefully put online players into the single-player mode, and often the other players were just as confused about what kind of game they bought as you, which did not help on the initial experience.

What I know about Linux gaming is basically its vendors and their general game selections. Steam has added Linux support with ~4% of the contemporary PC hit games, GOG.com added Linux support for some old games that had never been seen dead on Linux before, and Humble Indie Bundle and Desura practically still exist thanks to Linux gamers loving their attempts to resurrect Linux gaming. I've been thinking the thought many times, "If Steam Machines are just Steam Big Picture with a super-stripped Debian, why wouldn't it be much better with a Scavengerbox (self-invented name) with more vendors and those programs that people love with Windows and that does support Linux?"

I've based nearly all of my Linux curiosity for the last two years on that sentence. It's pretty awesome that you have several years' experience with desktop Linux PCs, while I've just been in the "absorbing info to see if I can try out as a weird test that would take more time than I'm comfortable with" phase.

It's very rare for me to have bought triple-A PC games at any point in time. Last time I paid more than €30 for a PC game, was TrackMania United. That was in 2007. A console, even if a console PC, isn't quite the same without triple-A's or Major Leagues (Nintendo, Rockstar, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard), and I can imagine taking a liking to Nintendo's Project NX and have it as my other main console. I have no idea if I am even talking in favour or in contempt of my own ideas, as it's 01:20 and my thinking ability feels like it's pressing the keyboard buttons on autopilot.

I have also done something I'm not sure was a good idea or not. I've begun to watch Jim Sterling's YouTube videos. He may be pretty stern and fashionable in-character, and his videos often have small details that prevents me from sharing them on Twitter, I did very often find myself honest to Sparkle agreeing with him. Including most of his channel's featured video, about Slaughtering Grounds and the publishers' somewhat unusual ways to process his previous videos on it. Basically, this paragraph means that I am honestly unsure whether I'll ever want to buy new games from Steam again. A harsh blow for my Windows gaming, hadn't GOG Galaxy stepped in like a knight on a white horse. For my prospects of Linux gaming, none of the games that are currently Steam-exclusive would equal getting bored within two weeks and regretting building a €500 living room PC for that purpose.

So yes, autopilot writings, and I don't know if I supported or countered myself.

>>494
>I guess there's Wander too. I know little about it, but a non-fighting MMO with exploring griffons must sound like a refreshing MMO.

Unlucky my machine is old and has trouble to run 3d games anymore, but is a worth check when I get a new one (I hope soon).

>What I know about Linux gaming is basically its vendors and their general game selections.

Probably SteamOS is the most decisive step I saw that brought Linux in the gaming market, althought still has only a little share.
I'm not sure of what to think about the "SteamBox": while the SteamOS is finally the "OS for games" accessible to any developer and player on any machine that virtually can run it, making also an hardware where run it appears redundant. Could be useful for who haven't time/interest to pass time to choise hardware stuff, but is the concept of the consolles. Is some time I didn't read about the Steambox, but the last time I read that the price was high in comparison of a common PC or a laptop.
I'm not sure if Valve really believes in the hardware side of the project (expect for its controller), becouse is clear that the hardware isn't the stronghest point of this stuff.

>I've based nearly all of my Linux curiosity for the last two years on that sentence. It's pretty awesome that you have several years' experience with desktop Linux PCs, while I've just been in the "absorbing info to see if I can try out as a weird test that would take more time than I'm comfortable with" phase.

The best thing to do is taking the best of the two worlds: dual-booting. A partition/HD for Linux and one for Windows.
I was used to dual booting long time ago: all the software I need is already on Linux, and I used Windows only for games. Then I ended to rid of Windows becouse I lost interest in recent PC gaming, my games are all for XP, and the new ones that I check are in SteamOS/Linux version; Wine supports well DirectX 9 games (DX10 is under working and unstable), and is the only way that I can play today some very old Windows game without problems, expecially old W95 games I still use.

Generally, is wise to keep a copy of Windows somewhere in the machine if you have some software that run only there (or better to Linux version). A linux-only machine is advisable only to who is really sure to do not need windows/macOS only soft, games included.

>>495
>Unlucky my machine is old and has trouble to run 3d games anymore, but is a worth check when I get a new one (I hope soon).
I was thinking more of that Wander apparently also is a PS4 game, which gives you two reasons to buy a PS4. Or in more negative counting methods, if that's your thing, all the reasons you'd have to buy a PS4 can be counted on two fingers.

>Is some time I didn't read about the Steambox, but the last time I read that the price was high in comparison of a common PC or a laptop.
The PC producer companies generally didn't get the memo that consoles are meant to cost less than €1,000. Alienware has a high-potential small PC starting at €530 for the Core i3 500GB model, which apparently has a special-tailored Nvidia APU made for the occasion, but every other scheduled Steam Machine are only really full PCs with fewer connection ports.

>Probably SteamOS is the most decisive step I saw that brought Linux in the gaming market, althought still has only a little share.
Steam has insisted on keeping SteamOS in beta for two years, seemingly in a desperate attempt to buy time to achieve Spotify and Netflix supports. There are only a handful of things where people feel safe with betas (I've partaken in betas of Internet Explorer and Deezer, though), and entire OSs are seldom on that list unless its a Windows late beta without account requirements.

>I'm not sure if Valve really believes in the hardware side of the project (expect for its controller), becouse is clear that the hardware isn't the stronghest point of this stuff.
Although somewhat addressed further above, the only possible explanation is that Valve asked PC builders to make PCs with PC OS support. A possible burning desire to not partake in the console wars and instead playing the slooow ride ♪. Initial gamer hopes of the salvation of living room gaming, has instead become perceived as Valve looking a decade or two ahead in time to ensure the survival of OSs without single-vendor binding like what Windows 8 wa—

Wait a minute... wait a minute! SteamOS is, in its core functions and the OS' stated aim, a single-vendor PC OS environment! While GOG Galaxy and Desura could probably be downloaded and handled decently, they'd be at a big disadvantage compared to Steam. Unless I've been missing some old explanations from Valve, Valve has themselves become what they've feared the most! I hereby declare that a gamer would have to be out of his wits or have invested €1,000+ in Steam games already if he would ever desire a SteamOS PC. I hereby recommend all PC gamers to get Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Linux Mint or Cubuntu (Not Windows 7. It's getting much too old). SteamOS will make your living room soul bound to Steam, with few ways out.

>The best thing to do is taking the best of the two worlds: dual-booting. A partition/HD for Linux and one for Windows.
Uhh... if recent Windows developments hasn't reached your ears yet: the modern UEFI-BIOS motherboards makes it inconvenient, at best, to attempt to install a Linux OS, especially for dual-booting. I do know that Windows 8.1 offers the alleged function of re-adding the OS boot list, of the same kind of list as in the classic BIOS. I need to test that function out before I can support or deny it whole-heartedly either way. But UEFI is infamous for 1) adding Windows Secure Boot, which halves the Windows 8 startup times but does not show most BIOS functions (you can enter BIOS, but the usual systematic text writing does not show up), which includes any OS or security boot lists; and 2) By having the list of the default boot OS be inside the UEFI BIOS, and by default not showing a list of multiple OSs you can choose to boot.

The horror effects of 1) and 2) has prevailed among Linux-interested people for some years, but I think I've got some BIOS things to test out still.

>>502
>Unless I've been missing some old explanations from Valve, Valve has themselves become what they've feared the most!

Yep. Ironically, the matter they deal to make an hardware for their OS make them a consolle producer. An unusual, but their is a consolle.
I wonder if is only becouse some other company expect a product that enter in this branch of the market, becouse don't appear to me a big deal.

>Uhh... if recent Windows developments hasn't reached your ears yet: the modern UEFI-BIOS motherboards makes it inconvenient, at best, to attempt to install a Linux OS, especially for dual-booting.

I haven't changed my hardware from long time, so I'm not exacly updated with the last stuff in the sector.

Usually, I used the internal boot menu of my machine to swap HD instead of the various OS loader, becouse its BIOS allow to choose the boot device before load them. That save me a lots of problem also when I changed the version of some of the OS: Windows pretends do install its bootmenu over the Linux one every time, and same did Linux, sometime making a mess in one of the HD.
Well, booting from BIOS was the most clean way.