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[VITAS]

It all depends on the licensing model and way of verifying licenses. If the bineries wherent something that needs to be protected (like microsoft does it with windows) one could package them in all maner of formats. My guess (and hop for not having online drm) would be to have drm free versions that can be downloaded once bought.
As rpm user i would welcome a format like fletpak so i dont have to fiddle with deb packe unpacking.

 

[rouch]

I installed the game by running the installer with wine, and the game boots, but the earth looks horrible and I get low performance, but I think my GPU is just too weak and if I lowered enough settings it would work better. If I run the game on Windows 10 on the same machine, the game also runs horribly, but the graphics bug with the earth is gone, but volumetrics are always drawn on top. I'm on Linux Mint.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (8 core processor, about 3.3 GHz)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 (I'm confused, I think the computer knows it's one of these but can't figure out which one)

 

[rouch]

I switched off the ocean, the clouds and the godrays and earth is still buggy but not blinding

 

[aaron.cpp]

Figured I would provide an update here.

We do want to provide native linux support, that is a Linux download. We've done initial testing producing local linux builds, and we have setup a download repository to push builds to. In the coming months we will start pushing to both the win and linux deployments. This will then allow us to test the feasibility of building, deploying, and supporting linux builds natively.

Like everyone else who is probably enthusiastic about this, I use Linux full time, and would be of the 'evangelist paying customer' archetype, where the question is 'why do you NOT play KSP?' and 'Let me help you with your esoteric linux distro problems so KSP runs great'. I think there's a lot of people like us out here. I have a ton of respect for proton and wine, but if you have a clean build and distribution path for ELF64 and WIN64, I think it speaks volumes about the customer and community integration and support.