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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by smileybarry on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:06AM (#18846285)
He points out that a very large percentage of the crashes were graphics driver related, not dependency issues that would be solved by the Steam runtime.
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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by rkido on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:38PM (#18852228)
I mention the Steam runtime because this affects the Linux version to this day: I am unable to launch the game (on a fully supported system and OS, mind you) without deleting some files from their install.

> He points out that a very large percentage of the crashes were graphics driver related

This was still largely related to the Coherent UI middleware and the strange way it was being used, as other posts have noted.

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by vetrom on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:36PM (#18853178)
My gaming box is still Xenial while all my work machines are at least bionic. While btrfs and my personal system setup practices make it easy to test and also port setups from machine to machine, I'm not relishing the moment when I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade.
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