Elite:Dangerous for Linux?

Sloma

Sloma
Pecisk said:
Linux users on Steam have bought about 15% of the games during first four months of Linux support. Also lot of indie developers said that while Linux base is small, it is very supportive, and they don't have big problems with providing support. They are interested to support Linux further down the road.
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Oh, yes. I backed E:D with £150 on Kickstarter and later upgraded to Alpha but I'd gladly pay once more for Linux port. I was sad I didn't see this as a stretch goal but I think it's only matter of time when we'll get it.
 

Lestat

Banned
Lestat
I don't mind if Linux has elite Dangerous all it will do is bring More people into Elite Dangerous and maybe more enhancements to elite.
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Patrick_68000 said:
I see rather Frontier giving the priority to the XBOX ONE instead of Linux
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They don't need to give priority - XBox One is practically PC. They can get XBox One version going in three four months after Windows version. Windows 7, DirectX - it's all there. Tweaking, QA - all required anyway.

In nutshell, that shouldn't impact decision to port to Linux anyway.
 
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Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Pecisk said:
They don't need to give priority - XBox One is practically PC. They can get XBox One version going in three four months after Windows version. Windows 7, DirectX - it's all there. Tweaking, QA - all required anyway.

In nutshell, that shouldn't impact decision to port to Linux anyway.
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From June 9, Microsoft decrease the price of XBox One, 100 euros less. This model will be delivered without Kinect. The console will be at the same price as the Playstation 4
 
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Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Patrick_68000 said:
They lower the price because they want to catch up on the playstation 4 and also because there are many people who do not want the Kinect. Sorry the site is in French but you know how to translate certainly --- http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high...aisse-de-100-euros-le-prix-de-sa-xbox-one.php

:)
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Yeah, but what's it got to do with porting to Linux? :) I said if they decide to do Xbox One port, that should be relatively easy to do, and mostly wouldn't take resources from potential Linux port if such would materialize.
 

StarTux

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Patrick_68000 said:
They lower the price because they want to catch up on the playstation 4 and also because there are many people who do not want the Kinect. Sorry the site is in French but you know how to translate certainly --- http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high...aisse-de-100-euros-le-prix-de-sa-xbox-one.php

:)
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This has nothing to do with the thread, please create another for Xbone :).

It will be interesting to see if Frontier also release Elite on Steam and aim to have it ported to the 'SteamBox', that would also require a Linux port.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Pecisk said:
Yeah, but what's it got to do with porting to Linux? :) I said if they decide to do Xbox One port, that should be relatively easy to do, and mostly wouldn't take resources from potential Linux port if such would materialize.
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StarTux said:
This has nothing to do with the thread, please create another for Xbone :).
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Patrick_68000 said:
I see rather Frontier giving the priority to the XBOX ONE instead of Linux
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But I just wanted to say that the XBox One will be less expensive, this could be an incentive for Frontier to propose ED at Microsoft. In priority before Linux. Everything can not be done simultaneously. We see that for the Mac version, it takes several months after the release of ED on PC. Even if Linux would require a much less important work
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Patrick_68000 said:
But I just wanted to say that the XBox One will be less expensive, this could be an incentive for Frontier to propose ED at Microsoft. In priority before Linux. Everything can not be done simultaneously. We see that for the Mac version, it takes several months after the release of ED on PC. Even if Linux would require a much less important work
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So I understood you at first time :)

Not really. I assume Mac version is done later because their COBRA team will be able to do something about it after finishing polish on ED, which will go on for all beta period. After that, they will jump to porting. Remember, they still hold on promise *releasing* Mac version in three months time. That means they will have some sort of beta/gamma period for beta clients, most likely released with retail version.

As I said, for XBox One they don't have anything to port. They have to compile game for it, polish it, test it, verify control methods, etc. COBRA team most likely won't even touch it (sans normal support). So it is quite unrelated.
 

mrrockitt

mrrockitt
+1 for Linux version please!

But happy to wait for a while, would much rather they made the game as good as they can on Windows instead of diverting resources to Linux.
 
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Titus Balls

Titus Balls
My hope is that at *least* for the first launch they support SteamOS (but not steam integration - just that you can install it on a copy and run it yourself), and potentially other debian based distros.

If they do, I'll probably go full SteamOS as soon as it's viable - especially if it's a faster boot and can basically boot me directly into the game :D That's what I want my PC to do. As soon as games come through that I might want to play, then I'll maybe play them too :)

Edit: Actually I wonder if you could create a linux distro based around Elite? :D When linux support is there, you basically fast boot into the OS, and can either launch directly into the game, or the desktop. But the desktop would probably load in the background anyway.

OS could have some useful tools such as a opengl based galactic map? If we can get the data of course, and something to track your trade routes like some open office spreadsheet. Chrome support too. The only worry would be joystick drivers - doesn't look like there is anything for some.
 
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stephen_usher

stephen_usher
VictorT said:
+1 for a linux version of the premium beta
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Ah, but "which" Linux?

Each distro is subtly broken in different and interesting ways.

Having to support Linux in a research environment for work using the 3D graphics drivers I can tell you that they're all very broken, both the open source ones and the proprietary ones. Every new version of the drivers and new version of the kernel breaks things again differently. And sometimes the kernel developers specifically target a proprietary graphics driver to break due to political reasons. It's a nightmare.

I can see why Frontier Developments wouldn't want to touch it with a barge pole as it would be a support nightmare, even if they went for the "Steam Box" system as a target.

Let's get a working PC version first before throwing resources at a broken system which changes almost daily.
 
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