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Valve Re-affirms Commitment To SteamOS and Linux After Hiding Steam Machines from Store (neowin.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Valve recently removed Steam Machines from the Steam Store navigation menus which naturally led people to believe that Valve was giving up on that initiative, also leading to concern about its operating system, SteamOS. In a statement posted on its blog today, the firm said that it's still committed to SteamOS and Linux. It said the main reason for removing Steam Machines from the navigation menu was due to the low amount of traffic the page was getting. In a statement, Valve said, "We've noticed that what started out as a routine cleanup of the Steam Store navigation turned into a story about the delisting of Steam Machines. That section of the Steam Store is still available, but was removed from the main navigation bar based on user traffic. Given that this change has sparked a lot of interest, we thought it'd make sense to address some of the points we've seen people take away from it."
> There are plenty of Linux titles on Steam. Maybe not many AAA ones, but a lot of indies, that is for sure.
Actually at this point there's lots of what I'd class as AA and AAA titles that are on Linux. It sometimes takes a bit to get them ported but a surprising percentage of my Steam library works under Linux. Borderlands series, Bioshock series, Metro series, XCOM and XCOM2, Rocket League (maybe not AAA, but it's the best value I've ever gotten for $20 - 400+ hours in so far...), etc.
HL2, Civ, Portal, Total War series, Middle Earth, Shadowrun, Warhammer, Witcher, Arma, Counterstrike, POSTAL, Saints Row... It's amazing these days.
Of my 442 Steam games, 199 of them are supported under Linux.
> but others like Ark - Survival evolved (which is insanely graphics demanding) will even on a 1080ti - get the "light ray" bug, where there's "rays" of darkness that will overshadow the game, psychedelic rain that will make it impossible to fly - and they all blame Nvidia drivers...which in turn blame bad coding on the game devs, or game engine devs. etc.
ARK was built with a heavily modified Unreal Engine 4. I seriously doubt that the (GPU) shaders running Linux are different from the shaders running on Windows -- but it would be good to confirmation on that.
Still, that sucks that nVidia + Epic won't take responsibility for it. :-/
Have you tried turning off light shafts ( god rays) and bloom?
> I still run Linux 90% of my time at home
If anyone is curious you can filter in Steam games that run on Linux via this link:
http://store.steampowered.com/linux