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Looks like Portal 2 is the first Steam Deck Verified title
13 January 2022 at 1:42 am UTC Likes: 4
QuoteIt has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?
Looks like Monster Hunter Rise runs well on Linux with Proton
12 January 2022 at 7:03 pm UTC Likes: 3
QuoteTested with Proton Experimental, the only issue currently encountered is a small intro video not playing. This is a reoccurring issue and will be for the Steam Deck, for titles that use things like Media Foundation.
I hope this won't be an issue for the Steam Deck; that they'll have rolled out their re-encoding solution by the time the Deck ships.
NVIDIA 510.39.01 Beta driver out for Linux
11 January 2022 at 3:40 pm UTC
Quoting: mrdeathjrThis new linux driver is first 5xx series driver and works with kernel 5.16 avalaible in kernel mainline for ubuntu users

however must be use this tool (ukuu fork) for more easily installation process

https://github.com/bkw777/mainline
You only need a kernel that's newer than 3.10.
ΔV: Rings of Saturn continues to be popular with Linux gamers
5 January 2022 at 3:58 pm UTC Likes: 15
It seems that the moral of the story is that if you love your Linux customers then they'll love you right back.
A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition
4 January 2022 at 2:56 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: [Linuxtayshady]The fact of the matter is if you did ANY type of research into what I just said, simply pulling up the ProtonDB page for It Takes Two for instance, you would've seen that people with Linux Mint are unable to get the game to run.
If it works for everyone else but doesn't work on Mint, that's a Mint problem. You can see that, right?
A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition
4 January 2022 at 2:52 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: rustybroomhandleValve is making a huge mistake though trusting game developers/publishers to just enable anticheat for Proton on their games. I still think hardly any of them will bother. Does not matter how easy Valve makes it.
What exactly do you propose as an alternative? Valve can't put working-on-Linux anti-cheat into other developer's games. They can't de-list games that don't work on Linux, since for all the strategic importance that Linux gaming has for Valve almost all of their money comes from Windows gamers. They can't ban anti-cheat from Steam and make the choice into put your game on Steam and have a load of cheaters, or put your game onto the store of an anti-cheat vendor and don't. Valve did succeed in encouraging developers to make native Linux games, but they couldn't entice the majority, and those games didn't have anti-cheat despite native anti-cheat having worked for years.

The carrot of making it really easy to do and the stick of not having the exposure of being on a highly desirable device are the tools that they have available to them.
Orontes Games creator of DRAG gets acquired by iRacing
3 January 2022 at 1:56 pm UTC Likes: 2
Hopefully this doesn't mean that they'll be encouraged to drop the native Linux version because of lack of experience from the rest of the team.
My favourite 2021 games played on Linux
21 December 2021 at 5:49 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: ObsidianBlkWhile I understand that mindset, I just wonder, if developers still nickel-n-dimed every bit and byte of their code-base like they used to with 8-bit and 16-bit machines of yester-year, how much more we might actually be able to pack into our games today!
Much, much less. "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." Fine-tuning file sizes takes a lot of expensive time, which means there's less of those resources for everything else.
Spiritfarer hits a million sales, Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition out now
15 December 2021 at 11:58 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: NezchanIf you're concerned about violent content, one character describes a very nasty scene that I imagine could be pretty upsetting. They also laugh about another person's physical pain
Spoiler, click me
including an eye injury from broken glass
. Just to be aware.
Thanks for the heads-up.

So the impression that I'm getting is that there's nothing that's suddenly upsetting (and I know to be looking out for that scene - for the unspoilered bit mostly), and it should be OK to play through together when he's about 7, with conversations about whatever potentially upsetting thing might be coming up later before they happen.

For context, he loved The Martian (with sufficient reassurance that things would actually turn out OK), he likes to watch Operation Ouch, and we're both aware of the subject matter of the game. I just want to make sure that we're both prepared for things happening and that he'll be able to put them into the right context.
Amazon hiring for Proton / Wine and Linux developers for streaming service Luna
15 December 2021 at 8:58 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: randylRegarding Valve, I'm not sure why people would think they would choose Google over AWS or Azure because both of those dwarf Google services by a large margin. Maybe Valve would setup their own infrastructure?
In my case, I think Google will inevitably get bored of Stadia and kill it. At that point, if Valve think that streaming brings value to the PC gaming space, they might want to pick up Stadia's library of Linux native games and any latency busting tech Stadia has, and integrate them into Steam. And if they're already thinking about taking over Stadia when it's dead, perhaps they'd think about a partnership before it dies, to bring that library, and that streaming tech & infrastructure to Steam and some consumer confidence to Stadia. I'd be way more likely to put money into something if it wasn't run by someone with the notoriously short attention span of Google.
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